To make a Dadaist poem: Take a newspaper. Take a pair of scissors. Choose an article as long as you are planning to make your poem. Cut out the article. Then cut out each of the words that make up this article and put them in a bag. Shake it gently. Then take out the scraps one after the other in the order in which they left the bag. Copy conscientiously. The poem will be like you. And here you are a writer, infinitely original and endowed with a sensibility that is charming though beyond the understanding of the vulgar. – Tristan Tzara
This poem was created from a letter to the London Review of Books, issue of 10 July 2025. It was chosen because the correspondent was from Hove Actually. Though the letter was rather dry, its remix has brought out the true scandal of the 21st-century housing crisis.
4.59 of people properties properties answer it achieve free housing rent?
insurance maybe is it.
rents they occupier off to maintaining that they are regime to authority
about who honestly was the value landlords
crashing property accommodation
prices?
choose market
deposit controlled drive
proposed rent already been under were there repairs cent there
if controls ensured money wasn’t able to private them
solution owner the know Rachman say aim rent the private capital
brave that avail periods the occupiers they oil the return
the rent was the out
hold the reducing became enough
this only in to effective notes because property was not sale vacant
eclipse I crisis could certainly
which in void we the like and there
make everyone and plenty to acts one of reason
way the account proceeds willing else when while instead reduce sold fact
but that the 1970s cent
an fair shares it of lower self
and rent in the politician for would that a per Jack Shelton
owner favour have the house of the landlord
would get the one rent
15/7/25 15.15pm.
James JW Robinson 