dream 12

a mid-century pornographic fabric book cum rag, once endeared by many, now an ode to glory days. it was a community object, like slippers at a bathhouse, and had been taken out of circulation, perhaps fallen out of fashion. it was faded erotica, stitched text, in cloth; a dirty thing helps clean a mess. i reinitiated it by happenstance. the work of the musicologist is to entertain relics. like any quality porno magazine, this one was littered with interesting facts about society. did you know they would dress a monkey up as the theater attendant when they first screened the Wizard of Oz? they still do. and it's the same old monkey.