Imagine that all of the air around you is actually water.
Attempt to surface.
Imagine that all of the air around you is actually water.
Attempt to surface.
Posted by Tom Busillo on March 27, 2015
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Imagine Wilt Chamberlain churning butter.
Imagine that the Big Dipper is using a standard-size butter churn, despite the fact that he is 7’1”.
Imagine the pain shooting through up and down his spine as he is hunched over the churn.
Feel with him the humiliation of being Wilt Chamberlain, the greatest player in NBA history, being forced to churn butter in such a stooped and painful condition.
See the tears drip from Wilt the Stilt’s eyes as he endlessly churns. See him mouth the words,
“How much longer?”
Think of the inhumane cruelty involved in putting him there.
Go to your refrigerator and take out a stick of butter. After the butter softens, place a candle in the butter and light it, saying aloud “Thank you Wilt Chamberlain,” then blow out the candle.
Place butter back in refrigerator and later use on pancakes, toast, coffee rolls or wherever butter is used.
Posted by Tom Busillo on March 15, 2015
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Find an isolated set of railroad tracks cutting through a woods.
Walk down the middle of the tracks.
Stop at the one mile point.
Imagine the tracks behind you represent your past and where you have been.
Imagine the tracks in front of you represent your future and where you are going.
Walk boldly and confidently into your future.
After 100 feet, stop and let the monkeys you’ve been juggling fall to the ground.
Smile as you watch them run away, then continue on your journey.
If they do not immediately run away, throw as many bananas as necessary into the woods to the left of the tracks, and then run like hell into the woods to the right of the tracks.
Posted by Tom Busillo on December 2, 2014
https://monsterbegood.wordpress.com/2014/12/02/railroad-piece-2/
Think of how the conductor of the train will feel after he has realized he has run you over.
Posted by Tom Busillo on November 21, 2014
https://monsterbegood.wordpress.com/2014/11/21/railroad-piece-1/
Find a friend.
Buy a can of soup.
Remove the soup from the can.
Play catch with the soup.
Posted by Tom Busillo on November 3, 2014
https://monsterbegood.wordpress.com/2014/11/03/soup-piece-i/
acquire a crowbar. replicate it in salt.
go to a locked place that you always
wanted to enter. attempt to pry open
the door with your salt crowbar. if it
breaks before you are inside, repeat
this process until you are where you
want to be.
Posted by Tom Busillo on August 17, 2014
https://monsterbegood.wordpress.com/2014/08/17/instructions-for-salt-crowbar/
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Suggestions:
This poem was performed before a live audience at the Kelly Writers House on the Penn campus on the evening of October 30, 2013 in almost exactly the manner described above, including running from the building wearing a Frankenstein mask and screaming “Fire! Fire!”
Kelly Writers House tapes all of their events. So at some point in the future, there will be a video of this performance available. I’ll try to link to it when it goes up.
Posted by Tom Busillo on October 31, 2013
https://monsterbegood.wordpress.com/2013/10/31/performance-poem-for-frankenstein-mask/
Take 3 sheets of 8 1/2” x 11” paper.
Fold them in half (top to bottom).
Place one under a stack of bibles.
Place one between 2 volumes of an encyclopedia.
Place one between the pages of a book of poetry.
Wait a week.
Unfold them and lay them flat on a table.
Observe which is the least folded.
Write your hypothesis for why this is so in an unlined pocket-size Moleskin notebook while eating a peach by a river.
If you are dissatisfied with your insights, repeat this experiment using parakeets instead of paper.
Posted by Tom Busillo on April 19, 2013
https://monsterbegood.wordpress.com/2013/04/19/folding-experience/