THE RUSTY TOQUE
  • Home
    • Issue 1 >
      • Creative Nonfiction: 1
      • Fiction: 1
      • Screenwriting: 1
      • Poetry: 1
      • Contributors: 1
    • Issue 2 >
      • Visual Art: 2
      • Fiction: 2
      • Poetry: 2
      • Masthead: 2
      • Contributors: 2
    • Issue 3 >
      • Poetry: 3
      • Visual Art: 3
      • Comics: 3
      • Fiction: 3
      • Reviews: 3
      • Masthead: 3
      • Contributors: 3
    • Issue 4 >
      • Prose: 4
      • Poetry: 4
      • Reviews: 4
      • Visual Art: 4
      • Contributors: 4
      • Masthead: 4
    • Issue 5 >
      • Nonfiction Kathy Acker & McKenzie Wark
      • Drama: 5
      • Prose: 5
      • Poetry: 5
      • Film: 5
      • Comics: 5
      • Reviews: 5
      • Visual Art: 5
      • Video & Sound: 5
      • Masthead: 5
      • Contributors: 5
    • Issue 6 >
      • Poetry: 6
      • Prose: 6
      • Reviews: 6
      • Film: 6
      • Visual Art: 6
      • Masthead: 6
      • Contributors: 6
    • Issue 7 >
      • Film: 7
      • Prose: 7
      • Poetry: 7
      • Reviews: 7
      • Visual Art: 7
      • Comics: 7
      • Masthead: 7
      • Contributors: 7
    • Issue 8 >
      • Poetry: 8
      • Prose: 8
      • Visual Art: 8
      • Comics: 8
      • Reviews: 8
      • Contributors: 8
      • Masthead: 8
    • Issue 9 >
      • Poetry: 9
      • Prose: 9
      • Comics: 9
      • Visual Art: 9
      • Reviews: 9
      • Contributors: 9
      • Masthead: 9
    • Issue 10 >
      • Poetry: 10
      • Fiction: 10
      • Reviews: 10
      • Visual Art: 10
      • Film: 10
      • Comics: 10
      • Contributors: 10
      • Masthead: 10
    • Issue 11 >
      • Poetry: 11
      • Prose: 11
      • Reviews: 11
      • Visual Art: 11
      • Comics: 11
      • Contributors: 11
      • Masthead: 11
    • Issue 12 >
      • Poetry: 12
      • Prose: 12
      • Reviews: 12
      • Visual Art: 12
      • Contributors: 12
      • Masthead: 12
    • Issue 13 >
      • Poetry: 13
      • Fiction: 13
      • Nonfiction: 13
      • Visual Art: 13
      • Comics: 13
      • Reviews: 13
      • Contributors: 13
      • Masthead: 13
  • About
    • Masthead
    • Mission
    • Meet Our Editors
    • Contact
    • Chapbooks
  • Rusty Reviews
    • Rusty Recs
  • Special Features
  • On the Line

bill bissett


The Rusty Toque | Issue 3 | Poetry | October 12, 2012

embrace

Picture

watching   broadcast  nus



i see th salmon talks will
                  resume on monday

well thank god  at leest th
                     salmon ar talking

speeking uv environmental issews


i dont think its fair uv peopul trying 2 stop
fish from farming  dew yu  why ar peopul

sew mad at say  salmon  farming  isint that
gud 4 th salmon  all th xercise in th work n

opn air  wunt farming make salmon stronger
mor agile  mor full uv nutrients  4 us 2

benefit  if peopul dont want 2 farm themselvs
aneemor  why not let salmon dew th farming

why stop  th salmon from farming  isint that
theyr decisyun 2 make  n wudint it b gud 4 all
konsernd

tho it cud b sd  how cud salmon farm on
theyr fins  2 push th ploughs etsetera  can
they bcum primates  n if not  can they reelee
farm on theyr backs  as sum claim  can yu

imagine  salmon floundring  as sew manee
peopul have farmd  on theyr backs  or was
that farming

a symphonee uv salmon


sibilant thru th up streem  swimming 4
      ward with dna fiersness  in th gold streem
  now  turning  green

unlike th salmon we can live longr thn giving
                                                            birth
n cumming 2 th taybul  place all our magik
             objekts  uv manee dimensyunal
                                  consciousness   on it

evn th taybul n all th objekts  we can place
      on it   glass figureens  wills  sacrid n
  arcane  cannistrs  uv kours  documentz
writtn agreementz  template  emblems  
                                               narrativs
   uv our humours  laisons  n tragedeez
 th epoch  neurologikal  acuitee  our

  symphoneez  ar  mor  divers we think  we
dont disapeer gradualee  among colours uv
   green  pink  gold  th pebbled  shore  em
  bedding  th fins    eyez n tails  n heds  n
 th innr  flanks  can we say  falling  falling
   in2 th erth  dissolving  in2 th wet ground

 we disapeer in2 each othr  n our bones eez
     in2 th  erth  th fire  th vapour n sumtimez
  b4  also disapeering  iuv herd  we can heer
th symphonee uv salmon  n th salmon singing
   theyr liquid sibilants  songs n dreems
             swimming  guiding us thru  in2
 
    circuls  within circuls  sumtimes dizzeeing
 within th rivr  running  upstreem  we all ar
      evenshulee    rainbows  goldn  pink

   evreething  salmon  n gorillas  all inside us

        ther ia no ending  2  bcumming


bill bissett

born on lunaria sum 4oo yeers ago approximatelee in lunarian
time was sent 2 erth on first childrns shuttul from th at that time
trubuld planet  landid in halifax   moovd 2 vancouvr at 17   moovd
2 london wher i was part uv luddites  alternativ rock band  thn
toronto wher ium poet in residens at workman arts & recording
with pete dako   wanting alwayze 2 xploor words n sounds n
image in th writing n painting   showing paintings at th secret
handshake art galleree toronto

most recent book    novel    from talonbooks   my first novel
                             & upcoming   hungree throat  also  talonbooks
most recent  cds           ths is erth  thees ar peopul   w pete dako
                                         luddites  86-91   remix
                                         & nothing will hurt   with pete dako  out now

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.
  • Home
    • Issue 1 >
      • Creative Nonfiction: 1
      • Fiction: 1
      • Screenwriting: 1
      • Poetry: 1
      • Contributors: 1
    • Issue 2 >
      • Visual Art: 2
      • Fiction: 2
      • Poetry: 2
      • Masthead: 2
      • Contributors: 2
    • Issue 3 >
      • Poetry: 3
      • Visual Art: 3
      • Comics: 3
      • Fiction: 3
      • Reviews: 3
      • Masthead: 3
      • Contributors: 3
    • Issue 4 >
      • Prose: 4
      • Poetry: 4
      • Reviews: 4
      • Visual Art: 4
      • Contributors: 4
      • Masthead: 4
    • Issue 5 >
      • Nonfiction Kathy Acker & McKenzie Wark
      • Drama: 5
      • Prose: 5
      • Poetry: 5
      • Film: 5
      • Comics: 5
      • Reviews: 5
      • Visual Art: 5
      • Video & Sound: 5
      • Masthead: 5
      • Contributors: 5
    • Issue 6 >
      • Poetry: 6
      • Prose: 6
      • Reviews: 6
      • Film: 6
      • Visual Art: 6
      • Masthead: 6
      • Contributors: 6
    • Issue 7 >
      • Film: 7
      • Prose: 7
      • Poetry: 7
      • Reviews: 7
      • Visual Art: 7
      • Comics: 7
      • Masthead: 7
      • Contributors: 7
    • Issue 8 >
      • Poetry: 8
      • Prose: 8
      • Visual Art: 8
      • Comics: 8
      • Reviews: 8
      • Contributors: 8
      • Masthead: 8
    • Issue 9 >
      • Poetry: 9
      • Prose: 9
      • Comics: 9
      • Visual Art: 9
      • Reviews: 9
      • Contributors: 9
      • Masthead: 9
    • Issue 10 >
      • Poetry: 10
      • Fiction: 10
      • Reviews: 10
      • Visual Art: 10
      • Film: 10
      • Comics: 10
      • Contributors: 10
      • Masthead: 10
    • Issue 11 >
      • Poetry: 11
      • Prose: 11
      • Reviews: 11
      • Visual Art: 11
      • Comics: 11
      • Contributors: 11
      • Masthead: 11
    • Issue 12 >
      • Poetry: 12
      • Prose: 12
      • Reviews: 12
      • Visual Art: 12
      • Contributors: 12
      • Masthead: 12
    • Issue 13 >
      • Poetry: 13
      • Fiction: 13
      • Nonfiction: 13
      • Visual Art: 13
      • Comics: 13
      • Reviews: 13
      • Contributors: 13
      • Masthead: 13
  • About
    • Masthead
    • Mission
    • Meet Our Editors
    • Contact
    • Chapbooks
  • Rusty Reviews
    • Rusty Recs
  • Special Features
  • On the Line