Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends

Abendsee - Eveninglake 19,5 x 29,5 cm acryl/coffee on watercolour paper c/o Karin Goeppert

HUNTER GATHERERS

                                        

                                       Want to make us happy? Give us something to obsess on.

I know someone who collects mail boxes. Rural routes, Missouri.

Lock it up.

A woman, an acquaintance of mine, who scours

East-central Europe for Soviet era sex manuals—

a joint venture I’m in the midst, the mist, the miasma

of reconsidering.

Pull it back.

And there are some haunters of public libraries

who, forgetting to eat, faint over back issues

of Cahiers d’ Cinema or New Poetics, Volume XXIII.

Show it off.

A desire to acquire scratchy fuzzy echoes of music/

oral epics last heard live in a small corner of the Persian empire—

lock it up—

in a dead language, no less, preserved on thread-bare tape

   in an Austin, Texas vault.

Lock it up. Pull it back. Show it off. Lock it up. Defend it

to the death, if need be, against all those who couldn’t care less.