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How to love a dead rabbit

Jenene Ravesloot

Inspired by Joseph Beuys performance titled
How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare

how to hold it in your arms just so   how to cradle it as if it were alive   how to hold it like a baby who at any moment might wake up   how to do that   how to explain the why of this moment   how to explain it with words that will not come   how to move beyond words   how to explain this gentle light  this world  this room  this moment  that picture over there propped against a wall to a dead rabbit  does it matter that he cannot see or hear or feel   the fact is the rabbit is dead and death stinks and what can you say or do to demonstrate your love when even this seems futile  and anyway what does a rabbit care about a painting any painting  propped against a wall or your love even if it could

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