jmbussert.bsky.social
PhD student in music theory at Indiana University. Amateur chess player and poet. Famously depressed and anxious. He/him/his
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In the words of the Mountain Goats, from the spectacular “Amy aka Spent Gladiator 1”:
I lie down in my corner
because I like my corner
I am happy where the vermin play
Pick up magic spells
we wear them like protective shells
Land mines on the battlefield
Find the one safe way
And stay alive
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Oh totally. I just haven’t read as many of them yet, since tuning (my current focus) doesn’t seem to come up quite as much or as explicitly
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Also, I grew up watching way too many shows with genre episodes, so for me this is no different than when Teen Titans did a death race episode starting the briefcase from Pulp Fiction
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AND it’s a setting in Cowboy Bebop!
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Any suggested readings?
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Somehow we have chosen each other’s least favorite albums lol
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Fair. What’s your favorite of theirs?
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Go old school: “Sabotage” by Black Sabbath
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I’d stop using it because I don’t have the funds for something like that, being a grad student and all that
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Mood
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Now, haiku isn’t meant to be reliant on a ton of literary references, so the poem needs to stand on its own. That said, it turns out the extended edition of Twilight is a little over five minutes longer than the original, so 🤷♂️
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Alt text: Oct 1, 2024
The following poem, held in a stick figure bed frame: In the basement
A snake under the bed
Ten years ago
In the bottom right corner, the derpiest little snek
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1) I can only write the haiku and draw the illustration in single, separate 5-minute breaks from my real work
2) I cannot edit anything beyond their 5-minute creation periods
Hope you enjoy!
*I can’t draw
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You have to be careful with emotion in haiku. You can include it, but the abstractions we use to convey it often eat up space for the concrete experiences that haiku is so good at conveying.
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Ballpark for when a poem becomes long form? Like, are we talking 1,000 words or an Anne Carson book?
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Love this! Besides the one Bukowski poem, what other poets are you reading these days? Currently taking a crack at “The Angel of History” by Carolyn Forché