Bosso Poetry Company

Upcoming Performances

Bosso Manifesto

We watched with skepticism and with admiration as Mr. Rockthrow’s truck stop rapidly became so unbelievably successful and expanded without seeming limit, or taste, to become the tawdry, glitzy shopping complex we now know as Bossssdale’s (aka ‘The Mall of Wyoming”), and to become indeed, the very city of Big Lever. We watched with amazement and bewilderment as Mr. Rockthrow’s burgeoning Bosso Enterprises went on to control first the communications industry in the area, and then every single business, shop, manufacturing establishment and firm in the entire county. We watched with growing disgust as Bosso step by step acquired or came to control every acre of private and most of the public land, and Mr. Rockthrow’s company grew to effectively own every resource, asset and creature in the county, which he so cynically renamed Mud Flap County to echo his origin in the truck stop business. And we watched with horror when all of Bosso's employees--which is to say virtually everyone in Mud Flap County--started changing their names to Rockthrow to get in good with management.

Bosso Poetry Co. is one of the last vestiges of independence. It began as a forum for the underground thought of the county but now Mr. Rockthrow demands that we stop using the name “Bosso” and worse, that we stop publishing, writing and even thinking in terms that question the singular pro-eminence of him and his company.

Big Lever, Wyoming, it’s time for us to stop watching. It’s time to stand up to Mr. Rockthrow, and become true reds, radicals and revolutionaries. It’s time to join together, work collectively and resist the corporate tide; it’s time to throw off the economic yoke of Bosso Enterprises by taking responsibility for our own lives and livelihoods. Mud Flap County, the watching is over. It’s time to act.

Works

"Workers of the World, Smile" by Comrade Hoffman

"Haulin' Ass: Cab Stories" by Scott Vetsch

"The Dead Don't Stand Long" by Scott Vetsch

"Spam River Journal" by Michael Hall

"Slaughterhouse Rules" by Michael Hall

"Selections" by Lynn A. Gray