DEATHWISH/ FRIENDSHIP BRACELET
I go Godzilla Claus
By Zac Dunn
Art by Mark Mothersbaugh
Published Issue 093, September
On the in-laws and floss
Like Bob Ross
Spill the sauce all
Arrogantly like an albatross
8 and 1/2 years later
Stew wing beats like
Gorbachev
Botched and hors d’oeuvres
The 7th letter
Never forgetter
Polo concreto
Critical break down
Abound face the t
emple of doom
Like short round
Kali Ma Shakti de
Display anatomies
Mythically dissected
Cantankerous convoluted
Excluded odd man out
In the Union
Jesus Youngstown
Crown of creatures
Upon noggins
Kenny didn’t log in
Ghost producer
Super user
Synapsys salivate
Sojourn subtext
That you’ve already unlearned
The terroir is a Terror
Terry took turns
Taking liberties
Torrented by terrorists
Talk is cheap and the wine is good
The color is musty
But the nose is still hood
Ratatouille went
Kablewy upon the alter
Of the recently
Decapitated chewy
The workers die
But work lives on
Blessed be the meager
Minions and peons
Residing in galvatron
Tetsuo sex style
Blue velvet in the sheets
Nothing ever worth doing
Ever intends to repeat
Pop will eat itself
God will be the wealth
Ego over Id
While the manikin
Is the undisputed
champion of the people
The stark reality
Abound seeking
Shutter islands
Of silence
No equal.
Zac Dunn is a psycho-social mechanic, father, musician and dreamer. Check out his music and follow him on Twitter and Instagram.
Check out his last Birdy install, 21 Band Names Or The Road To Hell Paved With Chum, here.
Mark Mothersbaugh is a Conceptualist. As an undergraduate art student at Kent State University, Mark began creating work in the late 60’s and has created tens of thousands of works to the current day in various mediums including, rubber stamp designs, mail art, decals, prints, ink illustrations, oil paintings, ceramic sculptures, manipulated photographs, video, film compositions, sonic sculptures, rugs, screen savers and so on.
While touring with his band DEVO, it was not uncommon for Mark to lightly “correct” or add onto the bland paintings and prints that adorned the many hundreds of otherwise unmemorable hotel rooms that he occupied for one night at a time. Using a van, bus, hotel room, airplane, or any space as his workspace, he has created over 40,000 drawings which serve as the genesis of ideas that later emerge in his larger projects.
Mark views much of his work as experiments in “beatnik-stream of consciousness” poetry, which to him, is related to speaking in tongues; the surrendering of the intellect to the primordial, or science vs. faith
An observer among us, Mark writes down things that he overhears throughout the day … people at another table, a voice on the radio, pieces of verbal fabric that drift and weave and create the poetry of life, the flotsam and jetsam that swirl around us and fill our subconscious with scraps of what it is to be, according to Mark, a “thinking ape.”
See Mark’s August Birdy install here.