Hartman, Charles O. “The Sinclair ZX-81.” Virtual Muse: Experiments in Computer Poetry, Wesleyan University Press, 1996, pp. 28–37.

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The poet's  equivalents might  be  words,  lines,  phrases,quotations—any pieces of speech that can be treated as separable andrearranged in some poetic "space."

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the  program  could  produce  a simplistic  kind  of  poetry forever,but it could never, by itself, produce  a poem. All sense of completeness,progress, or implication  was strictly a reader's ingenious  doing.Well, not  strictly. A clever choice of lines for the input  could  help.The more discrete and self-contained the syntax of the line  (completeclause, complete  prepositional phrase), the more  easily it joins withlines before and after.  Keeping verb tense the same increases the  op-portunities for coherence. Short sharp images stand alone better thanbits of narrative or  argument.

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"Happen"  comes  from  a word that means  "chance." The idea ofsynchronicity  (and  even  the  Freudian  idea  of  unconscious  moti-vaton)  can be  seen  in  two  ways.  Either nothing  occurs  at  random,or  random  events  are themselves  meaningful.