Hi Jim,
This is not a natural follow-up to your post, but I think it will fit somewhere into your topic of found poetry. I just belatedly found out that John Lennon copied almost word for word from an old poster from the year 1843 the words for "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite" to help fill out the album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band." He freely admitted it and did not think it his best work because he nicked it but it was an important part of one of the, if not the, most famous innovative music albums ever, by one of the greatest lyricists of all time, who apparently shared your appreciation of found poetry.
Jim R.
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