Hi Andrew,
Yes, I take your point... and I hope everyone realises that my comment above
was made in fun, honestly!
The idea just doesn't float my boat, that's all. I could more easily understand a composite poem that gets written line by line in the same way as this, but visibly, so that a genuinely good poem might possibly emerge, as a group effort.
The randomness of these lines just takes me back to the time when a bunch of us in a writers' group entered the International Library of Poetry competition, or something like that... oh, maybe twenty years ago or more. We each threw in a line from one of our poems and submitted it to this vanity publishing outfit, just to see what they'd say. The assembled poem was gibberish, of course, but lo! and behold! we were a "finalist".
The finished Exquisite Corpse poem reminds me too much of the above, I'm afraid!
But as I said, I'll keep schtum about it from now on, cross my heart!
Jayne