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ravel, Trouble, hoot: A Smoking Room

Question:

I address a specific Day
and Days
not received
recently –

the Days I made
a smoking room
a smoking room
a smoking room.

The only rooms left
were smoking rooms.

So, my question: Is it a smoking room when no such room exists after it stopped smoking?

I never would have
had I known.

I do feel
somehow accountable.

Answer:

Let me my smoking room!

Ever-smoking Days
smoking in carcinogens!

deliver I:
a smoking room!
a smoking floor!
my kids smoking!
a life to smoke!

my kids breathe
to smoke!

Looking back,
the Days
nonsmoking –
“walking.”

But you decided.
You’ve agreed to pay.

I owe you
as far as I can tell.

Blackout composition; source: “Travel Troubleshooter: Days Inn Blows Smoke on Nonsmoking Room”, Christopher Elliot, Philadelphia, Inquirer, 5/19/13.

In situ, below…

blackout

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by Tom Busillo on June 5, 2013  •  Permalink
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Posted by Tom Busillo on June 5, 2013

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calmer years

newspaper blackout

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by Tom Busillo on May 19, 2013  •  Permalink
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Posted by Tom Busillo on May 19, 2013

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keep summer

newspaper blackout

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by Tom Busillo on May 17, 2013  •  Permalink
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Posted by Tom Busillo on May 17, 2013

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ASK I: “Banana Me!”

Q: I am, and I hate. I retreat where guys sport jackets, stop, shop or at least depart. Banana me!

A: It’s definitely a thing – speed. All super-special air, pants a few weeks long.

Nix.

Slow and deliberate things that are familiar.

New the slope of the depth.

Arm the nuance.

Burn, range and persimmon.

Even a turtle should sing the golden rule: “Tailor, tailor tailor!”

Now go forth and bond with two special brothers.

Barn New York; house the rest.

Join your best friend and challenge him to find a killer.

Take a tail and chain Fifth Avenue.

Lord, Man or Blooming out the great?

Don’t forget a personal can save you hours of indecisive browsing.

Also, do keep in mind a banana.

You only need one wind, 89 rings and my 22-year old nephew.

Ears with sleeves, push this shiny number downtown!

blackout composition, source: “Ask Teri”, Teri Agins, “The Wall Street Journal”, 4/18/13.

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blackout advice column

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by Tom Busillo on May 10, 2013  •  Permalink
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Posted by Tom Busillo on May 10, 2013

http://monsterbegood.com/2013/05/10/ask-i-banana-me/

ASK I: “My cigar should dress my friends?”

Q: I’m a mind and I follow trends in black. My cigar should dress my friends?

A: Treasure your cigar!

The personal can be temporary (as yours).

Widen your circle so you’ll keep stretching.

List the changes in technology most adapted to a groom.

Comfort berets and then crisp a coat perfectly.

If you relax, keep in mind the seat.

How about walking shoes to sneakers?

Distinguish the best shape you can.

Smile those missing back molars.

Play English.

Profess a boyfriend.

Penelope Cruz is on-screen sweat, pants and a slim black raincoat worth studying.

Have a back bulge, switch a card!

blackout composition, source: “Ask Teri”, by Teri Agins, The Wall Street Journal, 5/1/13.

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blackout advice columns

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by Tom Busillo on April 30, 2013  •  Permalink
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Posted by Tom Busillo on April 30, 2013

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Kiss on the Weekends

The Thing
that opens as love
is haunted,
becomes unhinged
from hundreds of miles away.

Is he really?

And why do the ghosts seem to know the stories?

Dread moments of
tries so hard to capture the feel-
[abrupt starts and stops,
and random footage.]

It’s all film where no one should be expected.

blackout composition, in situ below

blackout poetry: kiss on the weekends

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by Tom Busillo on October 10, 2012  •  Permalink
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Posted by Tom Busillo on October 10, 2012

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known in further information

the home of old radios
will attract broadcasters

two tenants
smattering Sunday

Culture
the fledgling
objects
from
around
the world

more than 475 early and
contemporary nations (self-taught)

what is believed to be woven
combines

perhaps to judge reincarnation:
by one of seven

estimate a catalog
represented in
the Almighty

Young Cuban
as a known
until death

The record is woven
according to the description

in the club
until its purchase

frank: so sometimes simply called

Culture came with a few stats:
Knot count of knots
adding up to
weavers working
at a time with a workday

days loom
adding time to spin among
other tasks

to
to
to

the case
selected from
the collection

Text carpets a graphic.

among them a scroll called
a form

known in
further information

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by Tom Busillo on October 7, 2012  •  Permalink
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Posted by Tom Busillo on October 7, 2012

http://monsterbegood.com/2012/10/07/known-in-further-information/

Ask I: “I Am Tired of Alterations to My Torso”

Q: I am tired of alterations to my torso. I have lost my wife in the store more than the standard tailor.

A: Experience will make a life?

If you’ve got the bucks, to have earned is all that counts.

The anxious guy is never in rotation. He’s going to reach for love every time.

Step back and think of infinite sofas.

Paint accessories.

You can fill up your neighbor’s urn with ash and quirky objects.

Come and go.

Don’t laugh.

Your cookie-cutter cuts all the time.

The more you, the more you rate to date!

blackout composition, source: “Ask Teri”, Teri Agins, The Wall Street Journal, 6/20/12.

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newspaper blackout: Ask I: "I Am Tired of Alterations to My Torso"

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by Tom Busillo on June 26, 2012  •  Permalink
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Posted by Tom Busillo on June 26, 2012

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Ask I: “I Can Dress a Hen in a Hat?”

Q: More and more, I forward a mango to America. I go wrong sometimes on the label. I can dress a hen in a hat?

A: No.

Ash is consistent, and now laces fit even more.

Learn Italian reluctantly.

Reach for a large place full of sweaters.

Get the hang of Europe. (Those little flags represent different countries!)

America is based around body types.

Line up.

Pull out your sure charts and suggest anybody’s guess.

The difference between 3 to 4 inches in Europe is less than half the distance above a good tailor.

To alter time, call customer service.

To fit the clothes, take heed of feed!

blackout composition, source: “Ask I”, Teri Agains, The Wall Street Journal, 6/14/12.

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blackout composition: Ask I: "I Can Dress a Hen in a Hat?"

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by Tom Busillo on June 16, 2012  •  Permalink
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Posted by Tom Busillo on June 16, 2012

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Ask I: “I Envy Women, But I’m Just Not One of Them”

Q: I envy women, but I’m just not one of them. I have a lot of special shoes I don’t want to wear. Suggestions?

A: I’m all for three days of black, but there comes a time when you want more.

Alas, you just won’t fit into a single bag.

Stop breaking your head and enjoy your war.

What’s the point of rocks if you can’t round them?

Invest in a car and push it through long corridors as you get a feel for the interior compartments.

Partition off a zipper.

Waterproof liquids.

Resist.

Travel quick where there is no margin.

Shift the rat race, lock your age!

blackout composition, source: “Ask I”, by Teri Agins, The Wall Street Journal, 6/7/12.

in situ below…

newspaper blackout: Ask I: "I Envy Women, But I'm Just Not One of Them"

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by Tom Busillo on June 11, 2012  •  Permalink
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Posted by Tom Busillo on June 11, 2012

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