A picture is worth a thousand words but they are usually scrambled.

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I once took the time to buy a black marker, a pack of unlined index cards, size 5 X 7 inch by MEAD inc. I cut the cards into thirds. Then I tried to write as many words on both sides of every card until I filled a box with as many of my words as I could think of without a dictionary. There may have been some redundancies but I was pleased with myself. I would then reach inside the box and grab a stack of words, then place the cards down in a group of 5 like playing cards on the poker table, then I tried to see how many interesting random sentences or word groups I could get. It was a time poorly spent in my history and I do not recommend it to anyone unless they are just plain bored stiff. That reminds me, there was a program a friend of mine created that used algorithms for basic syntax in sentences and phrases and used words that had similar sounding endings to produce what he called, Cybernetic Serendipity. The location of this experiment with random poems or cyber poetry was Southern Methodist University campus, computer lab. My friend had friends there and was allowed access to their computer lab and asked me to go with him one day and I went along for the heck of it. I was able to see that many of the local NERDS where I fit in most prominently, but took a back seat to those who had more computer experience to just watch as they played 3-D Tick-Tack-Toe and printed faces using code printed on Dot matrix paper but the most fundamental thing was watching Mike in action where he wrote long long algorithms of Basic computer code for his Cybernetic Serendipity poems and he fed the computer the code and provided it with his long list of vocabulary words and then it spit out miles and miles of dot matrix paper of his random ramblings. I used this basic idea with the cards and also thought that maybe I should try to get as many words that rhyme. No that would be too much for my lazy brain. lol