Bjorling + Dadaism

from 477 UNIVERSALISTIC DADA-INDIVIDUALISM by Gunnar Björling (1928)

2. My new objectivity.
Tschili tschili-tschau!
tschili tschili tschau-tschau!
tschili tschili tschili-tschi!
tschili-tschau!
tschili tschiliman dja-dja-dja!
tschili tschili tschau-
tschi!
tschiliman tschiliman tschiliman tschiliman-
dja!
tschi-tscha-tschi! tschili-li-li-li!
tschili tschili tschili
tschiliman tschiliman-
dja-
ro!

3. (The abovementioned – in other words.)
Sing life
sing sing
sing life, your
life,
sing sing
sing – your life!
–Sing
life life! li li li-
fe!
Sing sing
sing sing–
sing!
life.)


7. Charlie Chaplin.
Nobody’s
laughter out of the mouth,
the great sorrow.
Look madam and the police officer hotdog-stand brat,
crazy eyes you paint
with the feet.
To be packed into a triple-sized pack box and be sent
in the last train cart
to a town for what happens to us.

8. My songdoodle.
Capsized in the chair.
Finger the cigarette.
Exhale smoke.
Arms legs vents saxophones
what do I
know!
Dance
with cheek!
–Final march applaud
and I writhe jump
with everyone, things are rocking beneath the tables.
What is smile,
when a nerve can smile in the eye?

14. Jazzcleverness world press telephone café ensemble –
we need foreign faces around us the temptation of the unknown:
We found the salt in our coffee cup
and turned homeward in the distant travels.

35. For Henry Parland
“Gape roll” that’s the philosophy, Dada’s square well-groomed
lip fundamentals–
walk on the streets
be a facial nerve
talk with uncontrollable
thumbs

[Björling famously declared Parland "the voice of Europe" and "the most modern poet in Europe" - Of course he was in love with him, so perhaps he wasn't objective. "Gape roll" is a reference to a Parland poem from Idealrealisation.]