14 June 2022
Crickets and the horn of a truck moving backwards. Water drop and bird spill. Dog bark, harmonica break. How do you define art?
Mildew drawings on truck window. Impermanent petroglyphs. Filthy rag tucked beneath windshield wiper. An old blender in the front seat. How do you define technological innovation?
Woman apologizing for her Russian accent. Two years ago, she hated Ukrainians. Another explaining Putin to me at Bird Park. How do you define history?
I mix accordion with harmonica, hang nail with raw hide. Tip of the tongue syndrome run amok. I cannot say sentences by rote. How do you define language?
New piece of furniture is a piece of shit. The former AG says his boss spouted bullshit. Lilith’s stomach hurt after she ate cat shit. How do you define shit?
Puddles in the road, filled in with gravel. Gravel taken out; she likes to slow the traffic down. Narcissus’s face had stones in it. How do you define psychology?
Hilo’s homeless line up for food. Across the street, we drink coffee and tea with healers and tourists. An actual fake lei hangs from the building across the street. How do you define authenticity?
Neat piles of wires and dry wall the next block over. Red paint on a white board. How do you define context?
Why are old friendships more permanent than newer ones? How do you define the question, is this true?
To define is to point. The black pointer, Doxy, doesn’t walk so much as weave. What he smells when he points we can't know. How do you define pedagogy?
Patriot Front member, pistol on his teeshirt, yells obscenities at a camera. He sees what we don’t, spews syllables at it, threatens it, performs for it. I learn the term “sap glove." How do you define sap?
Wassup? Howzit? We begin in the middle, always. We like to leave the mysteries at the start and at the end. How do you define between?
Do we live with or around the dead? Why do we keep speaking to them, as if they were all ear and we all mouth? In my sleep he heard me say, “I have no further questions.”
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