Demonic Poetry

What is Dada?

Dada (or Dadaism) was an early 20th-century avant-garde movement born during World War I in Zurich, largely associated with figures like Tristan Tzara and Hugo Ball. It rejected logic, reason, aesthetic rules, and bourgeois order. It embraced absurdity, randomness, provocation, collage, contradiction, and the deliberate destruction of meaning. Dada was not merely art - it was rebellion against a world that had proven itself irrational through war, nationalism, and industrialized violence.

In simple terms: if the world is insane, art should stop pretending it is sane.

For various historical and cultural reasons, Dada never truly rooted itself in Greece the way it did in Central Europe. So I decided - perhaps arrogantly, perhaps playfully - to give it justice in my own way.

Demonic Poetry was born from a game. A friend and I used to send messages written only through autocorrect suggestions - allowing the algorithm to construct chaotic, unpredictable sentences. We joked and named this method "Demonic Poetry." But the more we played, the more I realized how similar it felt to the collage legacy of classic Dada: newspapers cut-ups, fragmentation, accidental meaning, language rebelling against intention.

This chapter was written in the spring of last year, during a period when I was hit by a storm of heavy personal struggles. Instead of attempting to write "normal" poetry - which I have been doing since 2018 - I allowed the chaos to speak in its own fractured tongue. What emerged is not simply nonsense, but a collision of brands, politics, sexuality, religion, media noise, identity confusion, and digital overstimulation.

Most of my work is structured, lyrical, and emotionally direct.
This is not that.

This is the storm organized into fragments.
This is critique through collapse.
This is laughter at the absurdity of the modern world.

If Dada was once a response to the madness of its time, this is my response to ours.

Welcome to Demonic Poetry.