Once I burned an ant with a magnifying glass. It moved when it caught fire because it wasn’t trained to sit there. The straw it crawled on, its very own Popsicle stick palace blackened and burned. You have to sit there or it doesn’t count. But it moved. That’s how I knew it was alive; that’s how I knew what I did was wrong. Little ant? Little ant? And me crying all night long with ash on my hands. Popsicle sticks. Matted straw. Grassroots. Hallelujah.
If they say so…
National Stupid Cat Week
illustration by Charles M. Schulz :: scanned from The Snoopy Festival :: Holt, Rinehart and Winston :: 1974
Elmgreen and Dragset, The One and the Many
