19 May 2006

the empty museum!

We collect in secret, collect in public, in mass, in genres, in species, specimens, terms, types, genres,we collect objects, information, data, knowledge, documents, books, stories, drawings, photographs, paintings, sculpture, we collect treasure, things that shine, trifles, we collect, houses, land, spaces, decoration, designs, we collect history, lovers, sexual encounters, friends, animals, we collect cheap holidays, expeditions, times gone by, weddings and funerals, we collect cheap and cheerful, highly marketable and priceless, we collect the cuddly, things to sit on , things to wear, to lie on, drive in, look through, navigate and steer, we collect earrings, bracelets necklaces, tie pins, cufflinks, we collect, butterflies, moths, dragonflies, nets that catch them, fishing rods, fish and flys, we collect, bird names, car names, train names, girls names, boys names, telephone numbers, addresses, we collect stars, eclipses, winds , we collect encounters with tornadoes, lightning strikes and hurricanes…...

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