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New Billings - the 59th State!


State fossil: Helen of Troy
State weed: weed
State flower: weed
State hoe: Flaura Bush
State cheese: Cududuh State Cheese
Sate reptile: the ruby-throated long-haired snake
State stone: weed
State superhero: Weed Man
State song: Bessemay Asso
State bird: the tufted big-beaked mandrake
State slogan: “Billings has got Top Billings!”
Or
“Don’t kiss my ass til you brush your teeth!”
State crested marmaduke: the crested marmaduke
State mixed drink: cold beer
State Mathematical symbol: 9
State illness: herpes magnum opus
State color: greenish black tinged with ochre streaks
State oeuvre: New Billlings Phonebook (unabridged)
State mollusk: The Giant Greasy Smelly Slug
State neckwear: noose
State prospector: Walter “sweet jeezus” McKenzie
State goat: Jimbo the Bicuspid Ruminant
State soup: New Billings Bullion
State small mammal: microscopic horny crab
State song: Georgia on my Mind
State corpuscle: renal corpuscle
State nightmare: trying to evade sabre-toothed giant flea but can’t
State hairdo: the wet pompadour
State road: Bleeker Parkway Tollway
State rock: number 57 gravel
State hat: French beanie
State flying mammal: flying rat bastard mongrel weasel
State concept: Extreme monotheism
State Frothy Beverage: Chicken Soup




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to one ore more of the poem titles below.
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Ode to an Old Car Wrecking a New House

Serenely Pale Gold Towns As Seen from the Exploding Zeppelin

Polka Lines, Polka Dots, Polka Dimes

We Need to Think Outside the Diagonal Bag

The Toilet Overflowed, but “They” Said
the Carpet’s Wet Because We Just Shampooed It

Meet Jesus at the Corner of Pico and de Gallo and del Rio Verde Arriba Con Fahko

There’s Not a Rope in my Knot

Our Memories of Rainy Days Are Clouded by the Snow Storm of Our Relentless Existential Agony

The Bottle of Tawny Port Tom Kelley Purchased Thirty Years and Nine Time Zones Ago

Lubricant for My Hard Drive is Hard to Come By

What I Got Done at Work Today,
Which Won’t Take Too Long to Describe

Moose, the Amazing Moose!

Drunk As a Legless Seawhorse

I Forgot All the Amazing Stuff I Learned About Myself Six Minutes Ago

No Refunds My Ass

How Heavy the Heavy Ski Lift,
How Light the White Light

I’d Go On a Tri-State Killing Spree If I Knew the Roads

Let’s Pick the One I Like Best

A Urination for God, for Life, for the Ages,
for Time Herself

Finally Something to Make Me Shut Up

Watching the Crack

I Think You Should Rethink That Thoughtfully

The Fuzz Below, The Hair Above

A Battery of Basic Acid Tests

Your teddy is blue, my shorts are too tight, let’s be free

A brief history of the supressed eruption

The Nonicles of Crarnia

The unforeseen reach around

My Latency is Dormant at the Base of My Spine

If I May Speak for Rex, Tyrannosaurus Rex!

My Wienie So Throbs in the Morning Light


by the boy scientist poet musician tax payers

 

 

Whirled HeadQuarters
Universal Perpetual
Twelve-Step Program

 

Guaranteed to unravel dualism, shopaholicism, buffoonery, lassitude, compulsive voting, inappropriate hand gestures, creative grammar, droopy eyebrows, misplaced enthusiasm, advanced acquired immune hyperefficiencyism, jettisonsim, and all manner of microbial fixations.

1. treat yourself to a new toilet
2. don’t eat too much catshit
3. challenge yourself to a heavyweight boxing match
4. don’t eat your legs
5. refrain from abstaining
6. harness the power of yogurt
7. think like a pope
8. urge others to give you money
9. ululate when you follow cops outta donut shops
10. don’t be so annoying like last Thursday
11. challenge your therapist to a round of leg wrestling –
double or nothing on your next stash of Prozac
12. just for a joke, smoke some dope and then glue a banana up the tailpipe of your beloved
13. jump off a wet cliff into a dry river bed
14. make shine while the sun hays
15. tell the fbi everything you know about terrorism
16. believe in a power greater than the G-dog

 

 



Trip to Florida Chart
--3D View----





Résumé

2001- now: Community service and polishing my résumé.

1999-2000: Readied Y2k fix thingy.

1998: The divorce got settled and thankfully a little cash became available.

1996-97: I was not actually in the work force in any direct, meaningful way.

1995-6: Performed telephone consultations vis-à-vis the Atlanta Olympics.

1992-4: Sold photo collection, "Losers: Up Close and Personal," and coasted for while.

1992: Reluctantly re-joined the fucking service industry.

1991-2: Comedy club circuit kept me busy with interesting Gulf War shtick.

1988-90: Slowly flunked out of college. A great year (or two but who's counting?).

1986-88: Ran for public office in rural West Virginia, lost handily.

1985: Project manager, Crazy Pete's Sunglasses, Panama City Beach, FL.

1981-84: Met Crazy Pete. Long, spiraling downward crash ensued.

1980: Had my last formative experience. With spotty results.

1976-80: Sustained major tonnage of raw, California bullshit.

1975: Dabbled in the fucking service industry.

1974: Joined nutty cult.

1973 and beyore: Formed startling hypothesis as to how I and you got here.







Whirled Headquarters

Nomenclature for Levels of Consciousness
highest

all fucked up
New Times Roman
Cached
Linux
Helvetica
Flummoxed
Flabbergasted
Perfectly normal
Diaphanous
Suburbanite
Recent convert
Talking to officials at city hall

lowest



  



Things We Are Probably Not Going to Get
Around To This Calendar Year

• Respectfully, asking the muthafuckin president of Azerbaijan and his wife how it’s hanging, respectively(one brutha to anutha).
• Blowing a Wal Mart completely off the smoky remains of The Glory to Jesus Thrift Boutique.
• Learn how to tipe.
• Learn esperanto. And use it effectively to have sexual intercourse with Molly or Polly or Holly from accounting.
• Volunteer my house for your next family reunion.
• Volunteer for an unnecessary live organ transplant without written consent.
• To act worse and feel better continually is it’s own reward.
• Rescue Patty Duke or die trying.
• Be less annoying. For lack of a better word.
• Invent a versatile little gadget that feels good in the palm of my hand that will change life on earth radically forever and make me wealthy beyond all dreams of avarice.
• Mistaking George Bush for Thor Heyerdahl.
• Ask Dick Cheney about his “Christian name.”
• Rename Dick Cheney, Dick UnCheney.
• Memorize Francois Mitterand’s mobile phone number.
• Fasten my seat belt before I get arrested for drunk driving.
• Get America back to where it was in 1356. No matter the price.
• Buy retail without shame.
• Join any institution that utilizes the World Wide Web.
• Vacuum my socks once a week. I just bought some for chrissakes.







Why My Roommate Is an Ex-Roommate

· He found the keys to the place and couldn't get back in.

· The landlord invoked the "no pets" clause.

· He ate his room.

· He was arrested for impersonating a being.

· He's just a thing in a room, not a mate.

· He was born that way.

· He left all of a sudden.

· Because I moved out.

· Because I didn't want to talk about it.

· Because my attorney shot him.

 




Ten or so Things We Hope Never Happen · The Yankees win the World Series. · George Bush becomes president. Again. · India and Pakistan get the a-bomb. · Al Gore quits shaving. · Troubled space station Mir is decommissioned. · Vice president of U.S.A. is named Dick. Again. · Vice president of U.S.A. goes into hiding. · Sans-a-belt plaid pants. · Shorts that come down to your ankles. · Drugs are illegal. · Microsoft. · The French hate us. · We have to learn English. · The French imitate us. · Skinny blonde girls with big delectable tits are considered "sex objects."
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Things We Do Not Yet Fully Understand · Floss · The law · Clarence Thomas · Marijuana · Jobs · Gravity · English · Sweat · Vinyl · Flat fish · Death · Bliss · Vulcanization · The Holy Bibble, especially Rebelations

Chucking Apple Tree in Otis

May We Recommend the Following Excuses Next Time You Get in a Jam:


1. I didn't strip a gear. I just didn't remember.
2. My good foot hurt bad.
3. They gave me the wrong prescription. I swear.
4. I went on the right cruise but got on the wrong boat.
5. It was coincident with the full flowering of my pyromania.
6. My neighbor was trying to get laid. You know how it is.
7. I went to the other Milwaukee. Goddammit.
8. I thought it was seventy percent non-alcoholic!
9. Bill Gates was trying to help.



The Screen


I spent the day staring at the screen, although I moved around a lot. In the morning over coffee I checked my e-mail and got the latest on my team and my planet. Stared at the screen, slurping caffeine. Then I go to work, stopping to get motor oil and spring water and scanned them in myself, tapping touch keys on the screen I stared at in confusion then comprehension. At work I settled into my pod in front of my screen. It's got the biggest cathode tube of all. My main screen. I don't address it directly for a while, I just bathe in its radius as I nuke some tofu nearby and equilibrate this daily conjunction of magnetic fields. Soon I extend my hands toward the keyboard, staring at the screen. I am now interacting. Much later I rise and go homeward and stop at the gym. I get on the treadmill and they have installed screens on every machine. They do not rotate or turn off and everyone must watch them as they pant. I sweat and try to look at a patch of carpet I can see at an angle, but by mile two I am erect, sweating profusely, staring at the screen. I shower with my eyes closed and then wipe them dry and make it home and turn on the tube as I enter. I start to click and scan and move around and do stuff. I make something to eat and eat it in front of the screen, scanning and staring at the screen.





I don't stare at one thing for very long. Later I go to a friend's house and work on our web-site. We stare at the screen, making the screens that we and hopefully others will stare at later. We laugh and joke. It is hard to make new screens all the time, and it gets pretty silly. But its fun, as when others come on the screen to let us know that they are staring at our screens. Back at home I click on and then off the screens as I pass thru, and decide that its been a long day and to go to bed. I make it dark and relax back into the pillow. I close my eyes and open them and I can't see any difference. I can't see my hand in front of my face, if I put it there. I begin to daydream tho its nighttime and soon close my eyes and soon I am really dreaming, silly stuff that I probably won't remember, stuff I would laugh at if I could. But the infra-red security camera would note, if you looked at the screen carefully enuff, that my eyes are clicking and scanning beneath their lids. I am staring at the screen with my eyes closed, entranced, watching a strange midnite movie. Parts of it I recognize as edited bits from screens I stared at earlier in the day, or last week. It makes me laugh and I poke fun at the screen. I poke it and it pokes back and for a moment it becomes a shared joke, watching myself staring at and back thru the screen. It is immensely direct. Asleep or awake there I am, staring at and only sometimes thru the screen.


I spent the day staring at the screen, although I moved around a lot. In the morning over coffee I checked my e-mail and got the latest on my team and my planet. Stared at the screen, slurping caffeine. Then I go to work, stopping to get motor oil and spring water and scanned them in myself, tapping touch keys on the screen I stared at in confusion then comprehension. At work I settled into my pod in front of my screen. It's got the biggest cathode tube of all. My main screen. I don't address it directly for a while, I just bathe in its radius as I nuke some tofu nearby and equilibrate this daily conjunction of magnetic fields. Soon I extend my hands toward the keyboard, staring at the screen. I am now interacting. Much later I rise and go homeward and stop at the gym. I get on the treadmill and they have installed screens on every machine. They do not rotate or turn off and everyone must watch them as they pant. I sweat and try to look at a patch of carpet I can see at an angle, but by mile two I am erect, sweating profusely, staring at the screen. I shower with my eyes closed and then wipe them dry and make it home and turn on the tube as I enter. I start to click and scan and move around and do stuff. I make something to eat and eat it in front of the screen, scanning and staring at the screen.





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Evolution of a line of poetry:

I can't remember the last time I blow dried my hair
I can too remember when I blew my hair dry
When did I last dry my hair with a blower?
I blew my hair with air until - dry as The Britannica - yesterday tomorrow blow
Blow hair pure blue heat wind dust electric noise, Time








ALL CHICKEN, ALL THE TIME
 Provocative Chicken Cuisine
Starters!
 
Chicken on a Bed of Jellybeans
Creamatorium of Chicken Soup
Chicken with Egg
Egg with Chicken
 (Which comes first?)
Pickled Chicken Lips
Pounded Nipple of Chicken
Chicken Feather Tea
Stuckey’s Chicken Stickies
Chicken Cheese Ball with Gizzard Garni
Chicken Salad You Idiot
Chicken Seeds
Chicken Flush
Chicken Schmicken
Chicken My Ass
Funky Chicken
Cirrhosis of Chicken Liver
Chicken Situation
Chunky Chicken Puke in Puff Pastry
Smoked Chicken Cigarettes
Veins ‘n’ Brains á lá Wing
Beak ‘n’ Claw Toss
Chicken on a Cruise
Chicken Alarm Clock
Beat ‘em an’ Eat ‘em Chicken Snax
Chicken Sole Soup
Chicken Per-Doo-Doo Paté
 
 
 Entrees!
 
Foot-Long Chicken 
Eiffel Chicken Tower with Frogs Wearing Glasses
Retarded Chicken  Duh
Chicken with its Head Cut Off
Million Chicken March
Chicken Baby Jesus
Chock Full o’ Chicken Nuts
Tastes Like Chicken
Coq au Coke
Chicken with Lump of Mammal
Goddam Chicken
Screaming Chicken Carnival with Braised Oatmeal
Whupped Chicken with Feather Coulis
Chicken Jerusalem on a Dead Donkey
Chicken á la Queen with Lavender Sauce
Speaker of the Chicken House with Newts
Chicken Jihad
Sun Dried Chicken
Chicken in a Sock
Flayed Chicken
Chicken Plant with Egg Plant
Hock of Chicken with Chicken Body
Chicken from Hell Bent with Leather
Chicken on a Rope
Rack of Chicken Paranoia 
Go Cluck Yourself
Hundred Year Old Chicken
Chicken Balls
Great Wall of Chicken with Chairman Mayo Globules
Mashed Chicken with Mole Sauce
Chicken Served by an Orderly in Knickers
Dizzy Chicken Gillespie
Communist Chicken Logs
Chicken Holes
Chicken Surprise
Chicken Shock
Chicken Nightmare
Chicken on the Floor
Chicken All Over the Place
Chicken Overdose
Chicken Dribbled in a Shoe
Death by Chicken
Chicken in a Truck in a Mall
I Can’t Believe It’s Not Chicken!
I Can’t Believe It Is Chicken!!
Hemorrhoid of Chicken with Ass Pick
 
 
Dessert!
 
Red Velvet Chicken
Choked Chicken Custard
Chicken Blood Sorbet avec Wishbone
Chicken Eye Gelato
Chicken au Gratin with Cotton Candy!
Chicken Fat Pie
Fresh Chicken Berries
Honk if You Love Gizzards
Chicken Cookies
Glazed Chicken Upside Down “Cake”
Hershey’s Chicken Kisses
Chicken Pebbles…á la Mode?
Chicken Moon Pie
Naturally Carbonated Chicken Beverage
German Chocolate Chicken
Chicken Traffic Jam
Chicken Float
Chicken Pudding
Three-Eyed Chicken Jello
 
 


Copyright 1999 Chutney Prizm





Camera up on a crowned figure, kaleidoscopically clad. You can tell he's conscious, since he's paying no attention. He's regal. He's the King. The King of Things. He's the ThingKing, ThinKing, thinking... 

Dolly in and pan up to his well-bred face, the expansive brow upon which sits a crown of jewelled spires, blinking, blinking like an urban skyline and as the handheld zooms in and further up the face of this tiara lit like neon we begin to hear the electric hum of traffic and transactions. The perimeter buildings begin to resolve and the corporate ideograms strobe across their reflective surfaces as the camera takes a quick, seamless lap around the brim of complex city. Symbolic images of progress, power and control flit by as you pass thru the media sector, and after a brief pause when the lens focuses quizzically on the really wild hair rising up from a mole on the tip of the royal ear, you go up, up and over the top of the towers, over the razorwired mesh of comsat tendrils, and there you are, inside the circle, hovering above the broad pate of civilization itself. 

It's all there below - ghettos and gridlock, opera houses and honky tonks, malls, museums and middle-income housing. The hub of the bub, concerted chaos. This, you say to yourself, is consciousness, knowing that every citizen below is (at best) only episodically aware of their part in this crowning glory. And This! To be able to float here and see it all happening, the automatic vitality of it - This is truly enlightenment! 

Then the cinematographer interrupts your cosmic reverie and says he has to switch lenses, some kind of Kirlian funkfilter, and the entire tableau grays out and dies down. Only one patch of brightness sticks out amidst the gauze, right behind where you thought city hall was, so you zoom in to get a look and its nothing really, just a field like in the country, no development, definitely rural. There's a couple rows of crops and some kind of cud-chewing critter out in front of a little shack. You wonder how this could exist downtown, and why you didn't see it before, why everyone seems to build away from it, so you focus in for a closer look. The closer you look, the harder it is to keep in focus, so you try to stare at the screen door which seems to be just opening or just closing, you stare real hard and are startled when a sudden voice comes from just behind your shoulder – 

"You ain't from around here, is ya?" 

You whirl around and the filter flies off and the city rushes into foreground. You look back and all you see is city hall, where there's a demonstration against "special interests" in progress. You know you'll never find that particular plat in the municipal stacks, and as you zoom out and over the tips of the towers and down the aquiline nose of the Thing King, you start to wonder again 'bout this "thing" called consciousness. 
 
 
 
 


 
 
 
 
Everything Is Ducky
copyright 1998 calvin burgamy





Tonight at 9:00 on the Little Square Box, When Humans Attack, Part 2.  Yes, the rivers run red with blood when humans attack.  See supposedly civilized human beings attack fish, fowl and other beasts of the wild and all without provocation.  Their bloodlust knows no bounds when feral urges take over and reduces the mind to impotent observer.......some scenes may be too shocking for fainthearted viewers, wolverines, bears, woodchucks, ducks, geese and others...... 

We see two ducks floating like sitting ducks.They do not see hunter not floating with camouflage and a rifle. 

Pan or zoom to ducks.

Bill Duck: We were just swimming (quack, quack) in the lagoon.  We were thinking everything was just ducky, when Frank Duck and I and about 6,000 other ducks just got the urge to fly (quack, quack, quackquackflap). We were only about 50 feet up in the air when we heard shots (quack, quack, quackduck).  Suddenly Frank Duck is falling back down into the lagoon. (quack, quack, quacksplash). I went down after him and as soon as I (quack-quack) looked at him I knew he wasn't going to make it.  He looked up at me with these questioning eyes. 

Frank Duck: Quack, quack....Bill, is that you? 

Bill Duck: Yeah, Frank, quack, quacksniff, its me. 

Frank Duck: I can't feel my legs Bill.  I'm hurt bad....quackhackhack... 

Bill Duck: You're gonna quacklie make it.  The ambulance is on its quackklaxon way. . 

Frank Duck: The sun's goin' down way too fast, Bill...quackkkkkcroak..... 

Cut to Bill Duck: Quack. We thought several millions years of civilization, the domestication of animals and fresh frozen produce  would have tempered  the raging homo sapien bloodlust of humans.  But no....just because they say they are civilized doesn't make it so.  I sure wouldn't want one for a pet. Quack. 

Pan to Homo Sapien::
 

 Tonight at 9:00. When Humans Attack, Part 2.  So shocking, so real, so sensational, so stultifyingly stupid it could only be on the Little Square Box.