3 Word Poems

Interesting story about the center line of this poem: I stole it from my doctor’s office during my annual “wellness” exam. As I’m now 65, they gave me a memory test, asking me to remember those three words. After I performed a directed “activity” with pencil and paper, I was to recite those three words from memory. Now I ask you, who would NOT remember SUNSET BANANA CHAIR ? !! It’s a perfect 3 word poem.

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Marbled Animals

I took an acrylic paper marbling workshop and later found all these shapes within one of the sheets I'd made. The background is stamped ink patterns that I made by rolling textured beads on the stamp pad & then in lines onto the paper. I had made the beads years ago but had never used them to make jewelry. - C. Mehrl Bennett

BIRD LINGO artistamp design by C. Mehrl Bennett printed on preperforated stamp sheets from Pedro Pescador, of Black Rock City Post Office, 2019

Little book edition from my marbled critters project. This begins with an 8″x8″ inkjet print of nine scanned images (there are about a dozen total, cut from one sheet of marbled paper). Once I spray with clear acrylic/UV protectant & make strategic cuts, it will fold into a 2.55″ x 2.55″ booklet. If I unfold it at the center it will mail nicely in a first class envelope.

I Am Not A Tooth

NOT A TOOTH

I am not a TOOTH
You are not WE
 I am not MOST PEOPLE
 WE are not A TOOTH but
 What are TRUTHS?
 THIS is not THAT
 WHICH is THAT witch
 Which remains INSIDE
 A TOOTH of TRUTH but
 What are TRUTHS?
 THIS is what YOU WE I 
 Wake up thinking at 
 5:30 in the morning.
  
 C. Mehrl Bennett 2015 

2019 TEGDUB

C’ 2019 BUDGET

2019 TEGDUB mailed is going out in booklet form in April to my mailart corresondents – CMB

What It Is

no sword for time
no time for words
holding sway

come this 'way
a sway, a swab
a swoon of swans

flour   ice   plastic
sacks of dog poop
left in the street

my bag is yours
your bag is mine
left in the house

one inch, one foot
one foot, one yard
a yard full of toes

spun litter ragas
wipe away the toes of
all the toads in our yard

letters make a word
words make a poem
poems make a book

Fluxus Is
What It Is


C. Mehrl Bennett    April 1st, 2010
 
(In it's previous version
this poem was a booklet 
posted as mail art in March 2019)

 

Erg Herbe (JAB solo album 2019)

CLICK HERE for Forced Exposure Write UP! ARTWORK on album cover is by Zin Taylor. This vinyl solo album by musician John Also Bennett was released just this month (March 2019)  by SHELTER PRESS

VOODOO DOLL

_L

_{LAST NIGHT I DREAMED} THE PRICE _{OF BEAUTIFUL FLESH TONED PERFUME}

_{LATER, AT A PARTY, A FRIEND DREW} A MAN WITH CUNTS ON HIS SKULL_{, THEN}

_{I SPRAYED A NUDE MUGSHOT OF HIM OUTSIDE THE KITCHEN DOOR,} AS A GIFT?

_I DON’T KNOW

_{I REMEMBER A SKELETON} PRICKING

_{THAT MAN’S SKULL} WITH PINS

_AS ^{IF IT WAS A} VOODOO DOLL

_{FOLLOWED BY}

_{A WOMAN SMEARING ALFALFA SPROUTS}

_{ONTO HER} ^{FRESHLY BARED BOOKS}

I AWOKE^{IN A} _GUILTY SWEAT

_{AS IF THE} ^{WHOLE ROOM} _HAD

SEEN THE SKIN

^PEEL _{OFF MY}

_COW

c. mehrl bennett 2/12/2019