Margo Stutts Toombs - Performance Artist
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  • In the beginning...
  • Events: Coming, Going & Gone
    • The Organ-ic Variety Show
    • Texas Poetry Assignment Reading
    • Haunted Holidays
    • Fringe Festival - 2022 Anything Goes
    • WiVLA Showcase Dec 3 2022
    • Storytelling Showcase
    • Synkronicity June Soirée
    • Archway Readings
    • Stormy: The Opera
    • Body Language Screening
    • Writers Re-Treat
    • Houston Fringe Festival
    • S.P.A.C.E a WIVLA Collaboration
    • Acts of Defiance
    • Lake Charles Film & Music Festival
  • Videos
    • Storytelling on the Fringe 2020
    • Videos made on iPhone >
      • Stormy: The Opera Zine
      • 9-11 and Covid-19
      • What is the Virus? Really/
      • Nightmare in Sarajevo
      • WASH
      • Butterfly
      • Mr. Lantana
    • Cinepoems & Music Videos >
      • Ode to My Wound
      • Lazarus Cloth
      • Art Shadow
      • Urban Street Music
      • Stop it Juan - In progress
      • Beat Heart
      • Antidote for the Wicked World We Live In - Version I
      • Let Love Be the Change
      • Hope in My Veins
      • Liz' Song
      • I Don't Need No Estrogen to Have a Good Time
    • Liz Gilbert >
      • Award Presentation
      • Liz Un-Caged
    • Videos with Music & Dancing >
      • Song: C-PAP Tango
      • Ink Dancer
      • Juanita
      • What. This. Is. w/ jhon & Wayne Music
      • Dancing with Art 2017
      • Entanglements
      • donna e perkins - Paper Dance Sculptures
      • Halloween @ Archway Art Gallery
    • Human Interest >
      • Cuba
      • VaCa >
        • Puerto Vallarta
      • A Day at Work
      • Urban Stonehenge
      • Where I'm From
      • Serious Play - UH Senior Art Show
      • Mom's Photo Story
      • Sweet Diana
    • Humorous Videos >
      • Bananas
      • Morning Meditation for Regular People
      • Bitch is Ready for Tea
      • Sidewalk Psychic
      • The Colon Show
      • Wine Tasting with Chocolate
      • Granny Goodnight
      • How I Got Screwed at the Dead Sea Cosmetics Kiosk
      • Hot Tub Doritos - a puppet show w/ chips & crackers
    • Artsy F*rtsy >
      • Mourning Unfurled
      • Body Language
      • Circles in the Wind
      • The Lover's Eye
      • Prisoner of Love
      • On the Town
      • Stormy-M v1
    • Promotional Videos >
      • donna e perkins-Gone Awry
      • Queer State - Promo -1
      • Sizzle for - Stormy: The Opera
      • Sparkle Noir (2015)
      • BLK Gurls ~n~ WHT Boiz
      • The Art of donna e perkins
      • the Art of Johnny Rojas
    • Works in Progress
    • The Weight of Illusions
  • Publications
    • Friendswood Ekphrastic Poetry Contest 2022 >
      • The Comic Bear
      • Gold
    • Poetry & Flash >
      • An All-Night Conversation with You
      • The Care and Feeding of Your Penis Tree
      • Abecedarian: Cowboys at Gilley's
      • The Puzzle of Cats
      • Tommy
      • The Last Flight
      • Paper
      • Love over 60: An Anthology of Women's Poems
      • Batwing
      • Opossum,Oh Please
      • 2011 Texas Poetry Calendar
    • Articles, Blogs & Interviews >
      • Voyage Houston - w/ article & link
      • 100 Creatives
      • Houston 100 Creatives (in PDF form)
      • Radio Interview-Fringe Festival 2011
      • Me Kissing You
      • The Houston Press - Fringe Festival 2012
      • Houston Press Art Attack - Houston Fringe Festival 2012 - PDF
      • Grant Writing Handbook
  • Photos, etc.
    • Kidney Monster
    • Caturday Haiku - 10-11-24
    • Kashmir
    • Photos >
      • Videos played at The Barns 6-21-14
      • Photo in the Houston Press
      • Photos-The Colon Show
      • Photos-What's Eating Martha
    • Glitter, Guts and Glory
    • Redbubble >
      • Bootylicious BD T-shirt
      • Harriet Hair-on-Fire
Picture

The Comic Bear
After: The Deadbeat Mermaid - by Matthea Harvey
Inspired by the painting - Magical Beast - by donna e perkins

The comic bear would have done better in a traveling 
theatre troupe.
Performing for faeries and unicorns is brutal.
They gag
on reheated anecdotes.
And they never forget
a joke.
 
Bear longed to tickle the funny bones of real
men with her knee-slapping narratives
and tales of trouble and transgressions.
She wished for women who would
guffaw at her naughty night fantasies.
 
She loved people for their deliciously short memories.
 
Bear knew she could delight strangers for eternity
in the right venue.
Where the audience changed
every night.
If not in the forest, perhaps she could perform on
cruise ships.
The same silly stories night after night under a full moon on a never-ending
waterbed.