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JOHN M. BENNETT
John
M. Bennett has published over 200 books and chapbooks of poetry and other
materials. Among the most recent are rOlling COMBers (Potes & Poets
Press), Mailer Leaves Ham (Pantograph Press), Loose Watch (Invisible
Press), Chac Prostibulario (with Ivan Arguelles; Pavement Saw Press), Historietas
Alfabeticas (Luna Bisonte Prods), Public Cube (Luna Bisonte Prods), The
Peel (Anabasis Press), and Glue (xPress(ed)). He has published,
exhibited and performed his word art worldwide in thousands of publications and
venues. He was editor and publisher of Lost And Found Times (1975-2005),
and is Curator of the Avant Writing Collection at The Ohio State University
Libraries. Richard Kostelanetz has called him “the seminal American poet of my
generation”. His work, publications, and papers are collected in several major
institutions, including Washington University (St. Louis), SUNY Buffalo, The
Ohio State University, The Museum of Modern Art, and other major libraries.
HOW TO MANTIS
1) Cup up and regrub lung
2) Bleat up and sudnuf spray
3) Crap up and ruos shorts
4) Blind up and sselhgiht spin
5) Slack up and egaggul burn
6) Lose up and sseldaeh rim
7) Snake up andf sselenips win
HOW TO FLY
1) Dime the seeds you throat regnir
2) Phone the leaf you cusp relgnad
3) While the light your stump retlem
4) Snag the field you sleep rennur
5) Frog the dunk you crisp regnis
6) Smack the stream you fish redils
7) Chew the flap you grass swodahs
SEEM MONKEY
Snore the ecir blackage in your elbuod
tirw yr pile freezing in the tsurc account
Floor the llip snicker in your sselstnap
lwarc yr bile snowing in the epahs jester
Sore the tahs fishing in your gnideeps
dum yr file sinking in the pmihc muscle
Door the pmuh slapping in your gnippots
rettam yr dial throating in the enot cluster
CHIMP MUSCLE
Tape yr clobber tam yr derewolf koob
map misted lap pal cawing in the rain
Blap yr lobber tah yr gnihcnerd ados
meal flooded shoe eohs eating in the floor
Mime yr slobber sucof yr yttips aremac
chair muddy pen nep soaking in your cheek
Age yr hobble epan yr gninnirg rae
contusion sticky eye eye clouding in the tank
FUG
nate chunky
lab
or tort
just stoppy
SUMP
date of gnidworc
mort elffuhs
eurt heaving
PREEN
don a pinrut
tsam
troop lennuf
SUPPER HAMMER
nod and crawl
your cruel
sander quivers
CHUCK IT
sore you chaser, eh?
pond lumber
space your flatulence
DUB TRUSS
rant nor file
some drut there
gnignilf em
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© John M. Bennett
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