"In a station" "I saw" "a woman crying" "She stood against" "the wall" "looking dirty" "& exhausted." "crying quietly" "I asked her who she was" "& why" "she was crying" "She said: 'I" "am a painter" "I have been trying" "to find"
"a form the tyrant" "doesn't own–" "something" "he doesn't know about" "hasn't invented, hasn't" "mastered" "hasn't made his own" "in his mind" "Not rectangular," "not a sculpture" "Not a thing at all–" "he owns all things,"
"doesn't he!" "He's invented" "all the shapes" "I'm afraid he's" "invented mine," "my very own" "body" ("she was hysterical") "Did he invent me?" "I want" "to do something like paint air" "Perhaps" "I event want to" "invent air" "I've
painted" "thin transparent" "pieces" "of plastic" "They–" "the pictures on them–" "always turn" "rectangular," "circular" "I once painted" "on bat's wings" "I caught a bat" "painted colours on" "let it loose &" "watched the air change..."
"He owns form," "doesn't he!" "The tyrant" "owns form'"
-- The Descent of Alette by Alice Notley
