Tom Busillo is an emerging writer and conceptual artist living in Philadelphia, PA. His writing has appeared on McSweeney's, PANK, and Apiary. He enjoys writing humor pieces to make himself laugh (on the inside). A poem about the serious urban blight of duck boats and kazoos was once published on the op-ed pages of The Philadelphia Inquirer ( It is unknown if they regret it). His conceptual artworks include the digital series "Assorted Freakouts (100 count)" and the on-again/off-again "Ink As Art In Itself," consisting of a bottle of ink on a wooden stool his wife occasionally borrows. He's been known to perform his absurdist "Performance Poems" at the Kelly Writers House, in Philadelphia (think of Andy Kaufman at a poetry reading...only without his genius) in front of undergrads who stare daggers at him. His most notorious is "Me Frankenstein" which ended with him running out of the room - and the building - yelling "Fire! Fire!" while dressed as Frankenstein. It was April.