Radio: Drop Everything, Drop Dado

Good morning without cigaret tzan-tzantza ganga bouzbouc zdouc scars laziness of sparkling lights . . . his belly is a, big box for there are zigzags on his soul and a lot of rrrrrrrrr. . . .

That's the way Radio Paris started its midnight program. The long-haired doubletalk—Dada love poetry and surrealist verse by Tristan Tzara, André Breton, Paul Eluard, Salvador Dali and Louis Aragon—went on for 15 minutes.

Drop everything, drop Dada, drop your wife, your mistress. Drop your hopes and your fears. Sow your children in a corner of the woods. Drop your prey for the shadow. . . .

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