Genevieve Kaplan
One wondering

When nothing much comes easily, and it strains to hold a hose, to lift a leg, to identify an
animal, to create a solution for numerous problems including
white flies
tomato-eating squirrels
underemployment
injustice
changing weather patterns
lack of appropriate footwear
disappearance of time
spaces no longer used for their expected purposes, maybe spaces no longer necessary.

If one attends the meeting, maybe one becomes some-one one hadn’t intended.

If one speaks at the meeting, one becomes a contributing member.

If one takes notes at the meeting and distributes them, one too is part of the record. When one asks for something there.

When one considers that maybe one hasn’t complained loudly enough, maybe not
to the right people, maybe should be thinking of the self
as representative. A representative.

(But in actuality one has never managed to leave the building.)

Considering creating the context, the other other way
of inventing through systems: if books and pages are tiny voyeuristic
exercises, it turns out there are many laughing matters: the chickens
beyond the fence attest to it: the form, maybe a single running
header, allows for the form to exist.