• Everyone Has Children
• they produced a chart of
• all the things you needed
• in order to be educated
• it didn’t include women
• what is a hero but one
• whose self-involvement is
• helpful in some way to you?
• her influence on me was
• my secret source text
• the germ that invaded and defined me
• a disobedience to which
• i aspire and feel unequal
• my large task
• that keeps me absorbed
• collecting these informations
• without making them specific
• and working hard to be shapely
• my mistakes look like mistakes
• when i asked her
• “how had you done it?”
• she said
• “i just did”
• “i can hardly remember”
• “not even in control of what i’d done
• but inside some peculiar dream
• and unable to do very much else”
• “having had the benefit
• of being without predecessors
• i did what i was supposed to
• or didn’t even want to
• and at a certain point i knew that i was done”
• “there was no sentiment in it
• i only walked through a door
• that was opening
• that i have never understood
• and have since forgotten”
• i lived this way for a long time
• with no interest in living inside of today
• imagining a return to some point at which
• i was most perfect and unspoiled by society
• all of the things of the world
• coming out from that body
• as something entirely new
• the way you used to be able to hear it