All posts for the month January, 2012
visual poem 1/31/12
Posted by Tom Busillo on January 31, 2012
http://monsterbegood.com/2012/01/31/everythings-completely-normal/
Poem Requiring Three Calibrations
the sixth step
stitches
hessians
young
{ calibration: coddling the curdled collie }
the stixth sep
hitches
yessians
sung
{ calibration: sinking the slim shim-sham }
these tixtehs hep
yitches
sessions
hunger
{ calibration: these thises thistle their those }
he’s he(xes)
and (le)is
he (h)as (h)is it(che)s
[an](d)] [(t)i(c]k[s])
his [(The)s]solo(n)i(an
(Th)under
[s(p)]ends his (penn)i(e)s
s(l)inging
only (the best dishes)
(to) hunger
Posted by Tom Busillo on January 30, 2012
http://monsterbegood.com/2012/01/30/poem-requiring-three-calibrations/
The Spider-Caller
if you wake up dizzy
spinning in your bed
it could be that a spider’s
making cobwebs in your head
you’ll need a spider-caller
her name is Madame Redd
her services are free
that’s how she keeps her lizard fed
Posted by Tom Busillo on January 29, 2012
http://monsterbegood.com/2012/01/29/the-spider-caller/
City Fishing
sardines from a can
on the end of a string
pierced with a hook
what’s that gonna bring
dangling from a window
you won’t catch a thing
hungry hands and fingers
and fingers have rings!
Posted by Tom Busillo on January 28, 2012
http://monsterbegood.com/2012/01/28/city-fishing/
[you can always see the mountain]
you can always see
the mountain when it’s cloudy
close your eyes and see
we have etched it there
inside both of your eyelids
we thought you’d like it
two-stanza bizarro haiku
Posted by Tom Busillo on January 27, 2012
http://monsterbegood.com/2012/01/27/you-can-always-see-the-mountain/
Tightrope Walking While Sleeping
A man sleepwalks off of a high cliff by the ocean dreaming he is walking a tightrope to the top of a volcano in the middle of the sea.
He makes it three miles out – the whole time in midair without a wire or support – and does not start to fall until he is blown awake by the wind.
He has the presence of mind to think “I’ll be fine if can dream of falling upwards,” and closes his eyes to fall asleep.
Seconds later his eyes open wide in panic when he remembers that he is an insomniac – a thought which seals his fate.
And so are we limited by the labels we believe.
Posted by Tom Busillo on January 26, 2012
http://monsterbegood.com/2012/01/26/tightrope-walking-while-sleeping/
Several years into an event not promoted
Posted by Tom Busillo on January 25, 2012
http://monsterbegood.com/2012/01/25/several-years-into-an-event-not-promoted/
bring your own eyes to the scene, then climb a ladder until you begin to disintegrate
Posted by Tom Busillo on January 24, 2012
http://monsterbegood.com/2012/01/24/bring-your-own-eyes-to-the-scene-then-climb-a-ladder-until-you-begin-to-disintegrate/
The Most Beautiful Mule in the World
All morning, a man pulls a cart containing his mule up a mountain then breaks for lunch.
He gives the mule his sandwich and apple and hitches himself to the oat bag.
After lunch he hops into the cart next to the mule and steers them both down the mountain into the valley with a wooden rudder.
They stop just outside of town where he hitches the mule up to the cart.
He arrives at the warehouse where he meets Mr. Jacobs.
While they’re loading the cart, Mr. Jacobs pats the mule on the nose, grabs a carrot out of one of the sacks and feeds it to her.
He turns to the man and says, “God, if she just ain’t the most beautiful mule I ever seen.”
When they’re outside of town, the man unhitches the mule, ties him behind the cart and proceeds to pull the cart himself up the mountain.
After stopping briefly for light dinner at the top of the mountain, they both follow the cart down the hill – the man guiding it with a special tether.
About a mile from home, the man then hitches up the mule to the cart
On his deathbed, the man tells his grandson “I once had a beautiful mule. When I’d go over the mountain and take her into the valley town, Mr. Jacobs would always say, ‘God, if she’s not the most beautiful mule in the world.’”
Posted by Tom Busillo on January 23, 2012
http://monsterbegood.com/2012/01/23/the-most-beautiful-mule-in-the-world/
Bird Wide Open
Posted by Tom Busillo on January 22, 2012
http://monsterbegood.com/2012/01/22/bird-wide-open/
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