Fishintree
Poems, enchanting stories, alternative humor to be made into operas or epic films. For my sculpture site visit: jlangart.com
Monday, June 30, 2025
The first hole
Sunday, April 6, 2025
The beaten knife
The 2000 year old knife was found by a Luddite child
Rusted, covered with muck
And on close observation the blunt end was hammered or beaten
The marks had puzzled experts deciphering its meaning
Most knives made in the Gen X period
Were smooth
Yet the region where the knife was found that used to
Be called Switzerland
Known for its
Hard Cheese
Pumpkins
And Watches
The archeologists decided to imitate their diet by having one group eat
Raclette and Pumpkin gratin for 6 months
And another group
Do the same thing while wearing Rolex watches.
The simulation was arduous, yet the findings revealed both groups
Developed
Acute Tendonitis
Cutting hard cheese and pumpkins on a daily basis meant
The knives had to be super sharp however
Even so it was
Radical living
Yet the act of repetitive slicing was -if anything
A recipe for sore tendons in their arms and shoulders.
Hence, for a population suffering of the sort
The logical step was to take a mallet and
Bang Bang Bang!
Hit the blunt side of the knife
Until the aforementioned Hard Cheese or Pumpkin
(And some pumpkins were found be be harder than Cheese and
vice a versa)
Would be sliced without ado
The watches most certainly helped in the timing of the
Chopping up
And down time.
How smart GenX was, no one would have guessed
They were resilient and reactive
Having little or no muscle from spending years in front of
Screens
They lacked protein
Bang beat-beating on the backside of a knife, their lives
Depended on it.
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
Dating Seahorses and the caged fish
It was after a divorce
Bert the Seahorse was taking an
Open Source Correspondence course
On Seahorses potential for manufacturing
Rose quartz
There he met Elena
So different, so fresh
She could intertwine her tail like an acrobat
She swam through sharp coral reefs without a
Hard hat
Her eyes were crystalline
Her skin taught over her fragile bones
Bert invited her for a shrimp salad course
And he wanted to show how his hippocampus was
Developed
Yet every time he thought of hippocampus
The word Hippopotamus came out of his mouth
(The audience repeats Hippopotamus 5 times)
Hippopotamus! Hippopotamus! Hippopotamus! Hippopotamus! Hippopotamus!
"Hippocampus!" -interjects Burt
"Can you see my memory?" looking at Elena and pointing at his head
She looked flustered
And as they awaited the UberEats delivery
And waited
And waited
He recited the 25,000 types of fish
Which included their addresses and
Zip Codes
Elena's tail twisted so hard
It could have strangled a horned toad.
Elena looked down at Burt so hard
He thought his brain would explode
Said a water pump in a fish tank sucked him
And banged him against the head of a fake deep sea diver
The shrimp salad was
Butchered
"Elena, Elena, don't go!"
But Bert wanted to show his Seahorsehood to his date
So he threw the yellow delivery fish into
A caged box
A timed punishment without a tip
And a negative comment on the App
Would it save the courtship?
Would it crumble in a blip?
Could Elena find another shrimp to stick up?
"Bert, Bert find me some fresh grub!
Your hippocampus might not suck
But that shrimp ain't enough!"
And the Yellow fish
That BAD Yellow fish
(That passing fish starred at
Wondering what BAD it had done?)
It better, it better
Be better off making subway sandwiches
In a sub.
Sunday, March 2, 2025
Sinners and Dimmers: story of a Light bulb flickering uncontrollably awaiting an angel.
Audience divided in 3 groups and say out loud: 1) poire" 2)pomme" and "courgette" 3) and 4)"This is a world or Sinners and Dimmers" when directed.
(Explain that these are the forms on new lightbulbs today.
Intro:
The poet, following an electrician guide, goes high and low, a hellish journey with tense emotions, seeking
the elusive lightbulb with 1200 lumens.
A second electrician, dressed in red, tells him that he can use this 3400 lumens bulb with a dimmer.
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I can variate the frequency!
I can variate the frequency!
All you need to do is change the Schneider circuit breakers to Holms
Which
Doubling input roaming voltage frequency
and lowering the Amps
Can supersede the oncoming flickering glare
Like that of a suspicious silhouette of a lonely car on the road
Moving slowly at night as a scantily dressed lady impatiently waits at
A dark bus stop, stares fixedly at the blaring headlights.
"I can't see!"
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"But why 1200 lumens?" Wonders the electrician dressed in white.
"A Lightbulb Tourist
I Am" Insists the Poet,
4)"This is a World of Sinners and Dimmers" (Repeat x 5)
I have gone from store to store, from country to country, seeking
Lumens, dimmers, variators
-because the light has to be...
I can't describe it, subtle?
And 3600 Lumens in the form of a
1) POIRE 2)Pomme 3) COURGETTE" (Audience repeats 3 times)
(Why make a bulb like a courgette?) Is too much!"
"Relax", said the electrician, "If not you too shall be
Fli-Flickering (hitting the remote control)
And Snickering
Talking like a film noir detective
Having lost trace of that one Lightbulb that
Got away."
"Got away? Was it too disguised as a Tourist?" asked the Poet
"But I saw it, I had it in my own hands!"
And why a 1) POIRE? (Audience says Poire)
Poet: "It's rounded like Babar,
It could be in a Church, a Museum
Lighting up a painting that leaves
Tourists fein-fa-fa-feinting.
(Poet's voice starts to break up like a flickering lightbulb)
But why are you fading?" The Poet turns towards the electrician,
"I dreamt I saw -there was an alarmà- a Cookie Monster -a burgler... his cookies all on the floor!"
"You're fa-fading, those wires, is that the di-dimmer?
"The cookies were crushed, it was at the Vatican."
Can you he-hear the Po-Pope singing "Urbi et Orbi?"
Do-don't didn'tay fi-find 'dose cookies in the dark?
"Indulgentiam, absolutionem, et remissionem ominum peccatorum vestrorum, spatium verae et fructuossae paenitentiaeeee"
In the Da-da-dark? Did ya see? Did ya hear? It's flickering in da-da-dark!"
"I lost the si-si-signal
I am lost!"
POIRE! APPLE! Courgette! (Audience 1,2,3)
CLOSING Narrator:
As you can see, no Angel came to the rescue, no Angel could anti-flicker those lumens made to act in an irrational way.
And so I ask you a moment of silence for all Circuit Breakers, fuses, Sinners and Dimmers.
(Je vous demande une moment de silence pour tous disjoncteurs et fusibles, des pêcheurs et variateurs.)
END
Monday, December 9, 2024
I USB U *story of a noun turned into a verb
I lost my USB
I looked everywhere
Even up the birch tree
And if I had it on me swimming in the
Dead Sea
The Salt would have erased its memory
I texted all my friends to be
BOLO (be on the lookout)
My USB had an illustration of a
Golden Y
Nothing to do with my name Ubaldo
It had
A terrabyte -or two
As its memory had a thousand pictures
Anonymous faces
Unlike those seen in police manhunts
Faces and pixellated faces
Provocatively unveiled
That Chuck Close could often paint
And hang with one nail.
I USB U
Love
"CO2 you too!"
She repeated in his dreams
Breathless
Nothing demeaning
My
Sore eyeballs streaming
Over irrecognizable body parts
The FBI alerted
For a few bitchy bitcoins
Hidden in the key
Given their wobbly market disequilibrium
Might as well ask a woodchuck to estimate their value
You, U USBed me
Love
Your notes
On giving antibiotics to Bees
To build hives back better asap
And Bob, your boyfriend, had USBed me
In 2003
All those notes
Still I failed the degree
Because some of the docs on Bees had no merit
And some of the docs had less than no merit
I was USBed
Peed
Didn't know what to feel
With all the memory overflow.
Thursday, November 28, 2024
Chaos Vaccine
It's been two months
Since the time that he replaced his windshield wipers
And every time they would swash
He would scream hogwash
Bob was so upset
'Cause they weren't wiping correctly
And out of wiper fluid
Bob added mouth wash
Which did the job but cost a fortune
Bob scrolled for hours, days, months, on the web
To try to understand why his wipers didn't wipe
Leaving terrible unforgiving streaks on
His windshield meaning that while driving
He
Either had to look over or under the streak
A trail of un-wiped water
Similar to the trail of a slug
Except it was dangerous.
His life was unravelling
Like the yarn of a knitted sweater
Often late to work
He was given several warnings
"You're not doing your job, Bob!"
"You're taking too long, Bob!"
So he went to the doctor
He explained
How
Seemingly due to one windshield wiper
His life had taken a turn
The doctor, from behind her glasses
Pushed "Enter" on her keyboard
And said: "You appear to have ChaosChrom22
It's a form of Chaos
That typically starts with a meaningless event
That
Balloons, inflates into something magnanimously disturbing."
The doctor once again pushed "Enter"
and said,
"I have a dose I will give to you right away."
Licking her upper lip from left to right which made Bob think of his
Windshield Wiper
After the shot
Bob trotted out of the office
Still feeling distraught
He wondered why Science didn't put him in
The Comfort Zone
He wondered if the Science was eluding him or Science was Chaotic?
Was not ChaosChrom22 a manifestation
Of a State of Exaggeration
That had no place in society?
Hence, Bob deduced
Chaos was an outcast
Not to be embraced
Rather fettered with manicles
Chains swinging and ringing like
Disgruntled bells
Raging
Bob drove home in the rain
Looking above and under the streak of water
That wasn't wiping properly
He thought of the doctor pushing "Enter"
He wanted to
But didn't know how.
Saturday, November 16, 2024
Come Catch Chaos *
Behold!
It's not in my sauce
A posse
Who thinks Chaos is a toss?
(The French would say, it's fausse)
For Camus to be absurd or chaotic was a toss
Fractals, the butterfly effect
(How a butterfly flapping its wings in Brazil can
Cause a tornado in Texas)
Chaotic, absurd, surreal?
When a person of such leanings is considered a
Jerk
One has to adjust the parameters in a non-linear system
To instill "hyper-jerk" conditions.
The posse of an entertainer trekking across
Icelandic Moss
Wearing from head to toe
Hugo Boss
This is before WWI
When bloody apple sauce filled the trenches
And the Red Cross was just a tick under the skin
They,
They, are always in my thoughts
So I take a crayon in a cow house and draw
1/2 Pie RCµ
According to Berkhoff, Kolmogorov, Cartwright and Littlewood,
A jerk can only be turbulent in fluid motion
Yet when in non-periodic oscillation with radio circuits
The subject withstands what is sub-understood
If you think and earthquake is chaotic then
Try to eat a Mars bar with organic Ginsing,
Then walk on a tightrope that on respective sides is held by
A Fascist and a Liberal
Stop in the middle of the walk and write a new Chaos Theory that
Involves shadow water equations, the "non-ripple" effect and the
Brazilian butterfly effect that this time, creates a tornado in Alaska instead of
Texas.
It may be possible to conclude that taking into account robotic passive walking dynamics
Implying robots can walk and then walk some more
A topsy-turvy tumultuous knitting of a multicoloured Missoni yarn beyond
34.42 km in length,
With no apparent structure
No sleeves or neck
Is a best seller
For Consumer Digest.
*Elements of this poem are taken directly from the Theory of Chaos