[Newspoetry] Footwords to Howl, an interesting text

[Nick Montfort]

Joe,

You may want to publish this poem that I recently discovered. It might be
suitable for Newspoetry, as it treats some political themes. (It also
appears to be a constrained composition of some sort.) I am sure the
now-deceased author, Mr. Gonsborg, would be glad for it to appear on the
Web.

Of course you should attribute the poem to Mr. Gonsborg, but, as the work
is particularly obscure it might be appropriate to credit me at the bottom
for transcribing and providing the work. My credit can simply appear as:  
"Copyboy & donor of monolog to WWW, N. Montfort."

Footwords to Howl, for Solomon
by Onon Gonsborg

Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy!
Holy! Holy! Holy!

Good mondo world's holy! Body & not-body's holy! Tooth & blood & foot &
colon's holy! My own cock's holy!

World's holy -- wholly! Crowd's holy! Pond & brook & grotto's holy!
Promontory of rock's holy! Moon's rhythm -- grow lofty, flow, drop low --
holy!

Holy hosts of sky, good lord! Shoddy hobo's holy too! Loco fool's holy, so
holy!

Words -- holy, prosody -- holy, blots on books -- holy, bookworm who looks
to blots -- holy, joy -- holy!

Holy homonym of rock Holy Onon Holy Solomon Holy town-to-town font of
smooth words holy old fop who chops & chops words holy N.C. holy not-known
forlorn sods holy oogly worldly ghosts!

Holy my mom whom cops lock by loony fools! Holy cocks of lots & lots of
pop-pops of Provo!

Holy monophony of horn! Holy bop doom! Holy groovy pot mythology & nonstop
blow & bongos!

Holy lofty sky-block of rockwork & rocks down low! Holy lobby of food to
hold crowds who chomp! Holy flow of orbs' cry, low, low down!

Holy solo world control! Holy cow of posh common mob! Holy loopy cowboys
who rock world! Who looks to groovy L.A. got to do L.A.!

Holy Brooklyn holy Tokyo holy Bronx holy Kyoto holy Soho holy Lyon holy
Morocco holy Boston holy Moscow holy Kosovo!

Holy clock of long now holy long now of clock holy not-of-world clockwork
chronology holy two-by-two ontology holy common cohorts who boycott work
holy golom or nymph of Moloch!

Holy pond holy brown woods holy choo-choo holy look to photos holy
psychomotor shows not of world holy god-works holy orbs holy no-bottom
crypt!

Holy honor! Holy good works! Holy! Sorrows! Bonds! Boons! Glory!

Holy godly blossom, hollow of worldly form, phosphor of good!

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-Nick Montfort            <nickm at media.mit.edu>           <www.nickm.com>