in both her physics
Posted by Tom Busillo on May 26, 2012
http://monsterbegood.com/2012/05/26/in-both-her-physics/
the more things change…
Posted by Tom Busillo on May 25, 2012
http://monsterbegood.com/2012/05/25/the-more-things-change/
[where two trains pass away]
Posted by Tom Busillo on May 24, 2012
http://monsterbegood.com/2012/05/24/where-two-trains-pass-away/
How it happens (sometimes)
Posted by Tom Busillo on May 23, 2012
http://monsterbegood.com/2012/05/23/how-it-happens-sometimes/
Ask I: “I Am a Lost Saw”
Q: I am going to a party at a private club. I have ears that stand out. I am a lost saw.
A: No little shine inside – and out?
Look for bright shade, a purple peach or an unusual mute.
Heat the flat. Ring the dress. Relax in a tug.
If your arms look elbow-length, skip and faint.
Get your freshly blown out light done professionally with false eyelashes.
Smile so your teeth count.
Out of the cocktail? Survey the door and stride in the hive.
Act.
Keep circulating with a ring.
The party is always easier when you’re tall!
blackout composition, source: “Ask I,” Teri Agins, The Wall Street Journal, 5/24/12
in situ below…
Posted by Tom Busillo on May 22, 2012
http://monsterbegood.com/2012/05/22/ask-i-i-am-a-lost-saw/
floating above on the inside
Posted by Tom Busillo on May 21, 2012
http://monsterbegood.com/2012/05/21/floating-above-on-the-inside/
their strange ballet
Posted by Tom Busillo on May 20, 2012
http://monsterbegood.com/2012/05/20/their-strange-ballet/
The power adjustable pedals have memories
Posted by Tom Busillo on May 19, 2012
http://monsterbegood.com/2012/05/19/the-power-adjustable-pedals-have-memories/
In additional to catered meals…
Posted by Tom Busillo on May 18, 2012
http://monsterbegood.com/2012/05/18/in-additional-to-catered-meals/
on the cusp between breast and dream
there are obvious resonances
the first brush of
a hand across a
roof
civic virtue since the chaste peck
the Sign of the Cross
True dream police
portrayed as a mystical
“Dream Team”
that can revolutionize
the complex.
To feed (a baby) mother’s milk from
a Board Certified specialist -
the most innovative
dream come true?
Now the trick is this
up into other colors – but not change
rapidly and constantly
the feel of chic,
golden and fried
fork at push.
He didn’t need
science
leading
laboratory scientists and physicians
a level of interaction
naturally occupies the look
out for some
sympathy.
It rules the stomach and
determines
relations with
abstract thought.
Somebody might remember the time he puked in
blow-fish, helium balloons, cantaloupes,
stumbled and struggled through three hundred
Radical Ethics and the Figure of the Boy
as a centre of transition between child and adult.
I still dream that
Earthlore
Stamp
The Tree of Dreams
“Lights Out”
my little lamb
divided between Collin, Dallas, Denton, Kaufman, and Rockwall Counties
ushering in a new era in
strain
unprecedented
talk to your Verb-
al Bully
debut as a Music Video
make a distinction between genius and True Genius
slavery and Creation
the Gospel Shout and the blues moan
And I have sort of tried “it”
(defined as the moment when the sun “passes” from
overwork)
Life
happens between
events
the coming year
and the day
Perhaps you are pictured: Teen Star
Elvis was always drawn to young girls.
Elvis suffered from bad dreams and fits of sleepwalking all his life, making him afraid.
whether Bishops or inferiour ministers
a culture of ever-expanding control and possibility
to sever land
as well as distance from urban areas
see the
lamented
women
after 21 years into the game
rank-and-file members
Feel the Difference!
The Best Part of
Surgery
is
the Affordable Price!
The Rock And A Great Big Sea
not just “On” or “Off,” but every possible state
if you want to know more
Confinement and Sorrow
The edge
of a house determines
the house.
The best
can occur now,
or you can be a victim of
“Consequently and…”
the last vestige of this breaking –
ambitions,
but, in addition,
writhing, excruciating pain
unrealistically huge,
just for fun
the wonder
between poetic myth and reality
“and the morning is already…”
removed five years earlier
and answered,
“…each dry awful abrupt stop to aged teeth.”
she was one of only a
look
that passed
bore a remarkable resemblance to
the 4th Cat
Esoteric, Fine Arts,
Fitness Practices
the season of Peace and Goodwill
when the sun changes
goals
advances
in the best part of
procedures
to soften skin…
in Spirit
to stand
on the road…
between
squabbling children
the rhetoric and
practice of
armies
caught
their hands
pale
with
a toe
in a
daydream
as/so
the pages
do harm to no
issue
Right now, I am in a pretty decent cloth diaper
defining The Family Tree
while My Sister sleeps
on the cusp of
warts, sterility, obsessions, delusions, insanity, cleaners
ridden by Bacchus and Vulcan
fresh and white
with a gently amped-up warmth.
Savor
the physical abyss of the ocean and the
strong positive correlation between
children and mothers
the house changes the energy of the
love
of
Psychometry, Dreams, Etc. to which appended
existing between the superior and inferior worlds,
the world of causation and that of effects.
Before pulling,
carve out
the net.
We are such stuff as
released during labour,
the comical and the serious
out on the town sex,
from plump buttocks to tiny waist, to full, high
Midheaven
so work on the top surface of the foot and
enable
everyone to publish
Five Tips to Wean Toddler from Sippy Cups
Toddler Sippy Cup Smoothie Recipe: Irresistibly Delicious and Healthy
caught in a horrifying
everything
my style
to blend both –
the interplay and tensions between two
interesting wines
walking through
the metaphor of Hansel and Gretel
that old last moon
I can see
a white-collared shirt embroidered with an airplane logo
those finer senses
an invisible hand
more than 21 years
the future fish in a net
but not yours
Snowed-in
a hundred miles south of the Arctic Circle
in the spring of 1855,
ensconced in the Maps of
fire in the
memory,
indeed dark.
whooping cough,
working from home
I am nursing my
kittens,
NOW reincarnated — born into another body.
What’s the normal learning curve?
the reason for
not eating;
picking the baby out of the crib
and popping the bottle in his mouth
less than a year later.
“Your kids are older” –
just a few days away.
I am still trying to figure all of this out.
the imagination
squashing
the
door
frame
popping
I almost want to call the above an example of “spontaneous composition”/”spontaneous assemblage” And yet, it can’t really be “spontaneous” b/c there is obviously a great deal of work involved (i.e. coding a given line to having padding-left of 200px) after the raw materials have been assembled.
Here’s the process and its constraints:
- enter search term
- use IN EXACT ORDER at least one word from each of the 1st 100 search result snippets
- as you are selecting the words, know that NO ADDITIONAL WORDS will be allowed afterwards, and the order you clip the words is SACROSANCT.
- deleting words afterwards is allowed as long as you haven’t violated #2.
- basically, you are looking to create the words and the word order of the poem on the fly.
- although deleting words afterwards is allowed, in this process (as opposed to entering a term, clipping the results, and then basically making an erasure poem out of the results), if done “right,” you’re deleting about 2-3 words per every 20 lines.
- punctuation & formatting are allowed.
- in theory, it would be nice to eliminate #4 altogether, but I’ve found that without allowing minor deletions afterwards, you find yourself in the circumstance of over-thinking and looking ahead to the next few results…and the whole spontaneous feel of the process is lost.
- Oh yes, another thing is that you need to complete it (“it” being having the “raw materials” of clips in order in a word processor) in a short a time as possible.
For now, I’m calling this specific composition process “Google100”…
…although please by no means take the above description of the process as “hey, I invented the notion of using Google search snippets to a) compose a piece meeting whatever personal aesthetics seem to be coming into play at the moment of composition, b) anger/annoy/provoke the reactionary forces of Official Verse Culture c) increase the sales of Similac (since I am in fact the heir to the Similac fortune)…”
…I don’t know who actually did that…
…had Google existed in the early 20th-Century, it probably would have been Breton, Tzara, Ernst, etc…
…and whoever was the first person to compose a piece consisting solely of search snippets, well, I hope they at least paid their dues in the old-fashioned world of physically cutting word-matter out of physical word-matter platforms (i.e. it wouldn’t seem right if the first person who ever composed using search results never had the pleasure of having to cut out a single quotation mark from very small type in a newspaper only to have it fall on the floor into a pile of similar looking bits, would it? – of course it wouldn’t!)
…anyway…
…just laying out one variation on the process.
Posted by Tom Busillo on May 17, 2012
http://monsterbegood.com/2012/05/17/on-the-cusp-between-breast-and-dream/










