Every Hospital by Bertrand Goldberg (Except One) by Toby Altman



Winner of the 2018 Ghost Proposal Chapbook Contest. Edition of 100. Printed + assembled by Cold Cube Press in Seattle, WA. Sold out.
Excerpt
Say you’re building a table. At this table, it will be possible to eat an unremarkable meal. Or you might lay your taxes across it, many forms and receipts, since your jobs are forced and brief. Say that the table is made of particleboard or plywood, something you pulled out of the neighbors’ trash and laid across two sawhorses. To describe this table, you begin with experience itself. “How” (you are addressing an audience) (an audience under sedation or restraint), “does it cohere?” You quote a line of poetry, e.g. “being many, seeming one.” You wanted to build this object in such a way that it is free to have a life without you. You wanted it to unfold as a BUDGET unfolds. Tentacles of grey silk or chemical snow. And all the city is its organ. In its presence, you have no knowledge of what you are. Or this knowledge has no value to you.