After a brief service with the Polish Army he graduated from the Faculty of Philology of the Warsaw University, where he studied philosophy, psychology and logic. In 1919 he was among the young poets to proclaim the advent of new, futuristic poetry. The following year he published his first collection of poems titled "JA z jednej strony i Ja z drugiej strony mopsożelaznego piecyka" ("Pug Iron Stove"; literally: "I at Either Side of the Pug Iron Stove"), which gained much popularity among the supporters of the new trends in literature of the epoch. In 1927 he followed up with a volume of short stories, "Lucifer unemployed" ("Bezrobotny Lucyfer" in Polish). Until 1922 he was one of the creators of the influential monthly magazine "Nowa Sztuka" ("New Art"; appeared 1921-22), followed by "Almanachy Nowej Sztuki" ("New Art Almanach") and "the increasingly rabid Communist periodical" "Miesięcznik literacki" ("The Literary Monthly"). He contributed in the dissemination of the work of Vladimir Mayakovsky and of Futurism in general across Poland, before becoming a supporter of communism.