Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.

Tony Barnstone

BAD USAGE

When in the mist of a phone call you loose
yourself in thought and all seams an allusion,
when I take you for granite like statues
of limitation, and the one solution
seams to excape like hoarses from a coral
fenced with Bob wire, than thoughts go wild, gallumping
off, and take a different tact. The morale
is when I spread whip cream on your volumptuous
bawdy, when I gays at you awl rapt
up in duck tape of lust, its not enough.
We use each other viscously. We dangle
over a whole, unable to adept.
But cant we change? Lets nip it in the butt.
We kneed to see things from another angel.

–from Rattle #32, Winter 2009
Tribute to the Sonnet

Read by Author

§ 4 Responses to “Bad Usage” by Tony Barnstone

• David says:

  June 2, 2010 at 2:02 pm

  Inspurational! It boars to the nuculus of modern righting.
  

  dcp

  Reply
• Another David says:

  June 2, 2010 at 2:24 pm

  Congradulations! Poultry emotion.

  dbv

  Reply
• Georgia says:

  June 3, 2010 at 4:59 pm

  This is fun poetry. Maybe you’d like to add a “your” (you’re) as the second word in the first line!

  Reply
• B. Collins says:

  June 12, 2010 at 12:10 pm

  Nice piece. Fun read. Smacks a bit of Taylor Mali’s “The Impotence of Proofreading.” Our language is so fun to manipulate.

  Reply