visit
               ----------------------------------------------------------

               ok no hanky panky.  your call i say when are you
               coming.  gotta get gas -- now.  click.

               welcome.  wow you have a nice place.
               yeah well i come from an insinuating set of parents
               and there's dignity

               in nearly completely desoyed rectilinear offwhite wall
               and bookshelves used to stand there -- rather freeing
               that they no longer do actually

               you have lots of books!  amazing that it seems so
               when arranged into cairns and hoodoos and forts

               wow.  is that sheridan?   straight-dropped below you.

               wow.  all the lights.   so as not to talk of hospital
               play you some music?  yes.  what kind?
               is that suzanne vega?  solitude standing and here
               is her newest though a year old i just picked it up.

               play that.

               more conversation -- embargoed.

               wanna hear more music?  yes english.  is canadian
               close enough?  laughs, yes what is it.  cowboy junkies.

               this is my favorite song it's a cover. it was my
               favorite as an original.  and the guy who wrote it says
               this is his favorite version.  yes it is a pretty song.
               makes me think of peaches.  peaches?   the taste of peaches.
               hmmmm.

               the bond that keeps lovers together is arbitrary

               it is the bond between a hand's name and a hand's signature

               the paper the swooshing loop the motion in midair
               none are symbolic!

               the name and its sign -- are just like lovers's love.

               the bond that keeps lovers together is arbitrary
               uncensurable intimacy.


                       Marek Lugowski
                       13 March 1998
                       Chicago, Illinois