BSPH - Re

There is a concept of "as lame as possible" piece. It is a type of a throwaway piece that somehow persists and actually works as a work of art. I've found one of mine. This one follows grand tradition of Lawrence Wiener, Art & Language and Ed Ruscha.

The piece is merely a reference to the location of the definition of the word "Re" in the Modern Ukrainian Dictionary.

It started as a joke. I was at the reading of the "Mindbending verse" (don't ask) and was called out by one of the performers.
I had a couple of minutes before my turn, and i had nothing, i wasn't expecting to do anything.

So i went online - straight to the old Modern Ukrainian Dictionary website. There was a great brainstorm feature - random page. It went straight to "Re". I was like "oh well, i'm guess i'm going to embarrass myself". But a couple of moments later it was "wait a minute, i know".

I wrote down the resulting piece on a napkin and it got torn apart by the pencil - it looked like ragged battlefield white flag.

And then i go to the mic and read the piece and there is silence.
People don't know how to react because a couple of minutes ago they were listening to sonnets and haikus about desolation, contemplaton and the reckless nulliety of the modern age and then this. It was a bit out of the leftfield.

After an awkward silent pause - the hum started. People were like "yeah, that is something". And then there was lots and lots of rustling because people went to their phones to check out whether the poem's statement was correct and they were even more Yeah! That is something!".
The dude who called me out called me a bastard afterwards. It felt earned.

Later this piece was exhibited twice in Lviv and Ternopil and both times people were offended by the piece and asked it to be taken off. Seriously. 

The problem was - none of them was able to explain why this particular piece was offending to them. They just thought it was pointless and thus should not be exhibited.