clotheslines.

suitcases.

old suits. people in old suits. travelers with also old suitcases.

idle hands are the devil’s workshop.

clotheslines. laundry.

folding and straightening.

knitting and sewing.

tinkering. fixing.

busy busy hands now.

but what does it mean to be busy or idle?

what does it mean to be female?

can you create connection?  do you have a concept?

vocal soundtrack. live action without living.

without talking.

showing movies of busy hands. big screen.

while a small snapshot of idleness. passed around.

look at it furtively. don't let your mother see you.

what is your place in a female neurosis?  are you even female?  how much distance is there?

long socks. putting on long socks.

pulling and hitching.

hum some cheesy strip-tease music now. ba ba da da dum. dum dum. dum dum.

a recording. or just innate internal knowledge projected. the silver screen details your personal sexual icons.

all.

male.

bruce springsteen on the cover of born in the u.s.a.

tom waits in that jim jarmusch movie. the one in new orleans.

your father in a cowboy hat.

take off those long socks. and your shoes too.

slowly slowly slowly.

unwrap chest binders to reveal other binders to reveal other binders to reveal other binders to reveal other binders.

don’t stop now.

packing and unpacking and repacking.

two characters in suits. neither one is you.

opposite each other. reapeating the same motions.

like a mirror.

charlie chaplin enters. a character in a black suit and with a small moustache. enters with an old suitcase. puts it on a chair and opens it.

begins to take out these things.

raccoon tail. bruce springsteen records. tarot cards. romance novels. turkey vulture feathers. gin.

try to have a conversation with charlie chaplin about preservation.

suitcases full of old things.

tell charlie chaplin a romantic story while you repack that suitcase.

tell a story about how it is possible to both stay and leave at the same time.

a recording.

a litany.

a sequence of “I’m okays” plays.

wind yourself into an endless roll of ace bandage while making retching sounds.

do something that suggests dichotomy.

okay vs. not.

make the fingers on your left hand be okay and the fingers on your right be not and then try to break them all.

grudge match. battle royale.

come out fighting.

a stirring and stultifying story is now told to you by bruce springsteen on the cover of born in the u.s.a. using only eye blinks.

an infinite tube of beige nylon is filling with crawling forms. try not to notice. particularly how much they look like flesh.

like the penis you don't have.

now knit a long chain of stitches. forever. when you finish you can form them into the word “remember”.

clean the nails of one hand with the nails of the other.

pass the dirt back and forth.

jerk off to a sad song. in rhythm.

a teacup.

on top of a suitcase.