People often use the Ern Malley hoax as a vindication of formal poetry over free verse, it's not that simple, apart from the closeness of the Ern Malley poems to the cut and chance pairing of sentences practiced by Ginsberg and Burroughs, among others, you can see from the example below (S1 of Sweet Willaim) that the 'poetry' was not nonsense, it was a clever hoax, perpetrated by experienced poets.
I have avoided your wide English eyes:
But now I am whirled in their vortex.
My blood becomes a Damaged Man
Most like your Albion;
And I must go with stone feet
Down the staircase of flesh
To where in a shuddering embrace
My toppling opposites commit
The obscene, the unforgivable rape.
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