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    כותב טקסטים ומוסיקה וחוקר תפיסה מוסיקאלית. לפעמים מצלם. ספרים: שו-האי מתאמן בהטלת כידון (הליקון-ביתן, 1996); מה יש (סדרת כבר, כרמל 2007). זוכה פרס "טבע" לשירה בפסטיבל המשוררים במטולה, 2007.

John Baldessari/inventory

 

 

 

 A.

1. A yellow bead, a fake flower, and a nutshell.

2. An orange (perhaps tangerine?) and a white marble.
 

3. A black cap, formerly of a nosespree bottle.
 

4. Very old dice, showing six black dots.
 

5. Chalk (white), spring (dry) or coil; a dark rock (getting bigger and bigger), a doorknob that looks just like a shiny metal bird of prey, but is, nevertheless, harmless.
 

6. A lightbulb sleeping heavily, snoring perhaps (no soundtrack), lying on its left side, two inches long.
 

7. A moving hand and an empty pill bottle.
 

8. A bad guy with a cellphone.
 

9. Deflated dirty gray balloons.
  
10. A bit of a puzzle.  Puzzling (he says it’s a toy pig but it isn’t: it moves).

11. A black circle. On the other screen, he has just sat himself on a white straw chair (he claims this too is a toy).
 

12. The sea.
 

13. Something out of the sea:  a sea-daisy? Are  there any sea-daisies anymore,  anywhere?
  

14. A lark.
 

15. A Lark cigarette packet (empty).
 

16. Ten thousand dollars in toy money, good as new.

17. A loud, brief noise.
 

18. A tube of –   
 

19. It has been lying there for too long, on the tube of fine, though tarnished –

 

B.

1. It grows. He laughs again, but is quite different now: fatter, taller, curly hair.  Years might have passed. A hand wearing a handwatch appears, as well as a pair of black kids' tennis shoes, then a boy and an old woman, both lifting a stick, seven inches long.  She almost hits him, but finally forgets all about it.

 

2. A stick, eight inches long. I think (he thinks, but never says it out loud, and hence soon forgets) that this is some kind of utility.  A very old one, though. 

 

3. A shoe tree? But  what is  a show tree? 
 

4. Fourteen holes. A sentence with lots of hidden meanings.  Not this one, the other:  this one is very straight-forward. A phone call from a complete stranger, pretending to be nice. Two of the five Olympic circles, a dead kitten lying in the topmost right one, roughly, but not quite, in the middle.

 

C.

1. Getting dark (closing time): I can see no other objects but me.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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