*reads one paper on artists as shamans
A Qin emperor obsessed with immortality has 7,000 terracotta soldiers to stand sentry over his tomb. I think of Jeff Bezos and an Amazon fulfillment center.
Fred Moten from All That Beauty
I woke up a night or two later with a shivering about burying my cynicism or something like.
I bought the photos from my Laotian friend in a lot from a dying collector.
Our conversations lead to jokes about sex. $200 and you can do whatever you want to me hunny.
She sends money to her granddaughter and hasn’t been back to visit in 13 years.
We show our kin on phones.
She gives away things for less than they’re worth and less than people offer.
The lot is big and sitting in a red plastic tub in my little cabin.
I steady myself to take on these lives in speculative absentia.
Gives it away to whoever’s nearest towards the and
tyler, the creator in paris 2012
the way pictures reveal
in different ways throughout
our relationships to one another
