Primer Three

Repeat after me: I am not the first to hold this page. Again. Slower. I am not the first to hold this page. Now whisper it. The paper listens.

If you are learning “light,” first sit in a closet for seven minutes naming every dark thing you love. If you are learning “silence,” write down every sound you made yesterday, then burn the list. If you are learning “yourself,” teach a stranger how to pretend to be you. Watch them do it better. primer three

Arrange them in a triangle. You are the fourth point. The lesson is the space between. Repeat after me: I am not the first to hold this page