28/05/2020
'My mother taught me this trick. If you repeat something over and over again, it loses its meaning. For example: homework. Homework, homework, homework, homework, homework, homework - see? Nothing.
Our existence, she said, is the same way. You watch the sun set too often - it just becomes 6pm. You make the same mistake over and over - you'll stop calling it a mistake. If you just wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up - one day you'll forget why.
Nothing is forever, she said.
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Maybe they whispered to each other 'I love you' so many times that they forgot what it meant.'
Phil Kaye - 'Repetition'.
Phil Kaye, part of Team Providence 2011, and Project Voice performs "Repetition" at New York's Bowery Poetry Club. Aug 2011