two days after Ralph Nader spoke at Concordia I think about...
beads and beads and beads
lately I am making beads out of junk mail, and free condo magazines
cutting the glossy pages into long long triangular strips
(no paper cuts yet!)knockonwood.
chopping words and letters in their middles
rolling and rolling and rolling
and winding them around and around untwisted coloured paper clips
dabbing drippy white glue on the pointy parts
lacquering them with clear and sparkly nail polish
getting headaches and headaches
from the fumes
sticking the untwisted coloured paper clips into black styrofoam things
my vegetables came in that I never threw away
thinking and thinking and dreaming about fishing
through the dumpsters of the rich
and selling their old crap back to them as "art"
I got into the specialization in performance studies:
I want to be able to sing operalike
but I don't want to be an opera singer.
I want to train classically
but I will not perform night after night
for fur coat-clad, grown-up versions of the business students
who are rude to me at work
who will come to the opera
pretending to appreciate what I am doing
so that other people will think them cultured.
i want to sing to sing to do something good
to make noisesounds with my throat and diaphragm and lungs and lips and tongue and UVULA(the hangyball)
for substance
...to tell stories?
lately I am making beads out of junk mail, and free condo magazines
cutting the glossy pages into long long triangular strips
(no paper cuts yet!)knockonwood.
chopping words and letters in their middles
rolling and rolling and rolling
and winding them around and around untwisted coloured paper clips
dabbing drippy white glue on the pointy parts
lacquering them with clear and sparkly nail polish
getting headaches and headaches
from the fumes
sticking the untwisted coloured paper clips into black styrofoam things
my vegetables came in that I never threw away
thinking and thinking and dreaming about fishing
through the dumpsters of the rich
and selling their old crap back to them as "art"
I got into the specialization in performance studies:
I want to be able to sing operalike
but I don't want to be an opera singer.
I want to train classically
but I will not perform night after night
for fur coat-clad, grown-up versions of the business students
who are rude to me at work
who will come to the opera
pretending to appreciate what I am doing
so that other people will think them cultured.
i want to sing to sing to do something good
to make noisesounds with my throat and diaphragm and lungs and lips and tongue and UVULA(the hangyball)
for substance
...to tell stories?