These are really extraordinary pieces. Kurt Schwitters’ ‘The Onion (Merzpoem 8)’, of which a neat account was given by Peter Stothard on his TLS blog:
Nothing goes well for the teller of this story until after a skull-splitting – and a short excursus on the ‘Table of contents’ of a book for women, How to Hook a Man, What Girls Look for in a Guy’ etc – the severed sections flay together and ‘I was almost my old self again’.
The other piece is Jonty Tiplady’s ‘neolove’, which claims to be “from Clarice Lispector and Jean Vigo”, and gleefully sets up a panoply of characters before devouring them: “I have so much love to give.” (‘neolove’ can also be read in a fuller context at onedit 16.)
