I’m an impermanent member
of the board
that’s gone dusty
ready to break
anytime
I’m so rusty
an old screw
who in his day
held his due
now just waiting
for time
to make my adieu
All posts for the month December, 2010
An Impermanent Member of the Board
Posted by Tom Busillo on December 31, 2010
http://monsterbegood.com/2010/12/31/an-impermanent-member-of-the-board/
one of the human errors
in reason
out feelings
Posted by Tom Busillo on December 30, 2010
http://monsterbegood.com/2010/12/30/one-of-the-human-errors/
Redacted from the Book of Proverbs (no. 5)
Don’t think even a rich man
can devour misery
and it will always taste like apple butter.
Most rich men who devour misery
report that it tastes like
a slice of New York-style cheesecake
made of soap
or earwax.
Posted by Tom Busillo on December 29, 2010
http://monsterbegood.com/2010/12/29/redacted-from-the-book-of-proverbs-no-5/
Redacted from the Book of Proverbs (no. 4)
Before you book a journey of revenge
you must always think of the duck
who took his revenge
upon the poisoned apple in the road
and never rose again.
After remembering to avoid eating random fruit found on a highway
make sure your guns are cleaned and oiled
and your silencers all fit
just like you airtight alibis.
Take three times as much ammo
as you think you’ll need
and an ample supply of wigs and fake facial hair
and changes of clothes and gloves and plastic bags.
Make sure your taser
is charged
and don’t forget to bring the charger.
Never forget to have small guns
in ankle holsters
and several knives secreted on your body.
And it probably never hurts
to have a couple of cans
of police-issued pepper spray either.
Posted by Tom Busillo on December 27, 2010
http://monsterbegood.com/2010/12/27/redacted-from-the-book-of-proverbs-no-4/
Redacted from the Book of Proverbs (no. 3)
Don’t forget to understand the lesson
of the fool
who tries to trade in his swan
for an ugly ducking.
For a wise man
may easily disguise himself
as a fool
to fool
another wise man.
Although it is unlikely that the ugly duckling
has swallowed many precious jewels and gems
or an ingot of gold,
with lease-to-buy options on portable
x-rays machines so reasonable nowadays,
it pays to have one handy
for exactly these type of situations,
especially if you deal ugly ducklings in bulk.
Lacking an x-ray machine,
but still fearing that the fool
may indeed be a wise man,
you could also buy an inexpensive
one-way ticket from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh
on Southwest
(which will put you out only about $59 – I know. It’s crazy.)
and run the ugly duckling through the TSA scanner
at the airport.
If there are indeed gems, jewels or gold ingots
inside of your ugly duckling
you can always feign ignorance
when asked about it by the TSA agent
and say something like
”So that’s why Harold hasn’t been himself lately!”
Posted by Tom Busillo on December 26, 2010
http://monsterbegood.com/2010/12/26/redacted-from-the-book-of-proverbs-no-3/
the daily dusting
that upon his final days
he’s finally found Jesus
and is changed
may change everything
for the changer
but it matters not the smallest bit
to what’s left of the arranger
of books on the lost child’s desk
never to be read
who’s compelled to dust them daily
even though the room
will never be entered again
by a stranger
Posted by Tom Busillo on December 25, 2010
http://monsterbegood.com/2010/12/25/the-daily-dusting/
A Christmas Miracle
I remember it like it was last year.
It was the day before Christmas 2009 and we had a crapload of orders that needed to be loaded into the trucks. But wouldn’t you know it? The back door to the warehouse was jammed.
Mike, Bob, Tim, me – all the guys in the warehouse – we couldn’t bust the sucker open, no matter how hard we tried.
The drivers were no use. They were union.
So we called our V.P. of Operations, who had taken the week off, and told him about the problem. He yelled at us a little, but ended up coming in to personally inspect the situation.
After he applied some industrial lubricant to the door railings, we tried the door once again.
Guess what? It worked!
“Why couldn’t any of you stupid fucking monkeys do that on your own?” he asked, walking away.
Then he turned.
“Oh yeah, and Merry Christmas.”
- THE END -
Posted by Tom Busillo on December 24, 2010
http://monsterbegood.com/2010/12/24/a-christmas-miracle/
Lull Time or Can’t Do?
For say we the thing that laps
proved to in the end to be a “foo”
an equal evincer
an sequential evader
the answer to “et tu?”
And as far as we can see in the orchard
all the pears act OK
when passed by a former coloratura soprano
who named the tides of May
and sung the final aria
in a two-penny opera on All Saints Day
“The Cipher of a Glass Shack Overbrimming”
all sotto voce to the director’s great dismay.
In contrast,
a port is ignited,
soloed, mapped
down to the eon’s core,
until its rhythm comes out in the
sound of moonlight touching the waves
in the guests breathes
and mumbled words between snores.
They are all but funny, the faraway
dins of tins of unseen Ghana
that lied underground, untapped, and thin
from the razor bites of the mole piranha.
Key me, use me,
see in me my dents
and my untouched atolls,
my atonements for my postponements
for being nothing more than Concord grapes
and turning your white soles.
Keylight tutoring
includes cozy squeezes,
tanned segues,
done leeward,
attested, arrested,
and caught red-handed
and red-faced in the con.
The tour leaves twice upon the hour
so we should by now be getting on.
Dunked, drunked, and sauced,
I am a frail mural,
wearily, eggily, edgily ugly,
and an ever-ready bluejay
waiting to be dragged back
to my place in the tree
docile to the events,
the t-shirts on remote,
groveling at the lady at the heart of the story
who guns the throttle of a blue boat
and two miles from shore
splashes the Mauser in her tote.
And an ill id calls
for more rays
and at times
for more fulmination.
Ill nostrils,
ill lorries
felt through null time
as a test of will
or as a test of doleful valoration.
You strange uncles who can’t ascend bravely
come sail a lute to the lake’s secret allegro,
this star sense, a fact seen by elks,
your ammunition – mailed and certain.
Helper’s course
tracing an anatomy
of arborous arbor to us,
our chins in chin-high foliage
icicles around other’s penumbra.
And all that’s certain
it that against the wind is the moon.
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The base outline for this poem was phonetic translation of Elio Pecora’s “L’ultimo Canto.” I tried to turn the sounds of the original Italian into English words, totally irrespective of their meaning, and the above came out the more I worked on it.
Posted by Tom Busillo on December 23, 2010
http://monsterbegood.com/2010/12/23/lull-time-or-can%e2%80%99t-do/
Performance Predictability Personality Index
1. Circle all the words that describe how you believe people expect you to act.
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obedient foolish slothful paranoid indignant biblical artful agreeable doe-eyed utilitarian winged mastigophoran fuzzy diligent pure quinonoid congenial conjoined iodous remodeled |
florid endless unguinous able demoralized gamosepalous disastrous improper handy engraved empty dodecahedral epigrammatic haggling isostatic booze-soaked incalescent dogged iconic fidgety |
ill-equipped collapsed truthful furious myriad delighted groundbreaking callow venose bumbling intelligent drugged puzzled elegant experimental underachieving gentle cytologic unusual creamy |
chosen ideational pyrogenous scornful decomposed sickly cursed nice cartilaginous pushy moody exalted servile unkempt oaken hardbound stipendiary sissified reboant rebellious |
2. Circle all the words that describe how you act.
|
puzzled fidgety congenial delighted florid unkempt engraved utilitarian empty venose cursed groundbreaking obedient isostatic slothful paranoid unusual booze-soaked gamosepalous creamy diligent |
iodous collapsed agreeable endless unguinous able demoralized improper handy scornful foolish artful quinonoid stipendiary sissified haggling elegant reboant fuzzy incalescent ill-equipped |
truthful myriad iconic callow bumbling pure winged disastrous epigrammatic indignant rebellious doe-eyed hardbound intelligent mastigophoran drugged sickly experimental conjoined underachieving gentle |
cytologic remodeled chosen ideational pyrogenous furious decomposed dodecahedral dogged biblical nice cartilaginous pushy moody furious myriad delighted callow bumbling servile oaken |
Posted by Tom Busillo on December 22, 2010
http://monsterbegood.com/2010/12/22/performance-predictability-personality-index/
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