Surrealist Writing Technique – Veristic Surrealism
I was looking up types of surrealism and came across one of the two more widely known versions called “Veristic Surrealism.” Veristic surrealism,
” brings the viewer face to face with the fantasy world of the painter or writer, and the artist tries not to filter the scene through his or her conscious mind. This means that the viewer is truly seeing into the dreams of the artist, and can interpret the work as he or she wishes.”
Basically put, an artist using a Veristic surrealist style depicts an unfiltered fantasy to the viewer so that the viewer can interpret the work in his or her own individual way.
So here’s my attempt at Veristic style surrealism
When I spit, I spit paint.
my words flow, and into minds I taint
envisioned with vivid murals.
It censorship, they way they seal my lips
the way my hands are gripped
I endure whips and hardships
they forget my kingship
my kinship to nobility, my heirship to the throne
only when I moan, they see my thoughts
it’s only when I groan, and cough up inkblots
cuz they associate me to crackpots and gunshots
them hotshot robots playing slots in their fancy yachts
Conformity, uniformity it’s the automaton of society.
Can’t life just lie to me, instead of flying past me?
My hands dance on its fingertips, and on them I scrawl
as if they marked the walls of Jericho, causing its benevolent fall
they only stall the inevitable.
my loyal subjects will carry on my work preaching with voices of extreme decibels
I’l deafen the masses, until this facist society crashes
cuz they stole my crown and left me with gashes
those asses just want to cremate the king and dash my ashes
but there isn’t just one of me,
cuz as one of us falls, immediately emerges three
knights will take up my crown and become the next generation of kings
when we bomb the twin towers our acts are labeled as terrorizing
society, and all of it’s predetermined things
if we throwup they automatically toss us into the bin
our words are our sins, so we wage a war we can never win
So if the pen is mightier than the swords, is the marker stronger than the gun?
the war has begun so I must take preemptive action
I’ll mark my place and erase your face from the human race by defacing it with this marker as my weapon
and of course you’ll retort with your cohorts shooting us up with guns of all sorts
but what you cant take from us is this distort reality
I will always have this mentality
built firmly upon this substantiality
because I spit paint and ink flows from my fingertips
you view my truths as cryptic
but in reality
your just sadistic.
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