Pics of Beardo!

Below are a bunch of photos of our evolving work-in progress. If you squint you can make out the writing on the wall.

Also check out the blog post on the Town Hall Gallery blog, where they ask me questions and I try to be funny.

Smith and Steers at the start of the project:





















Aaaand some terrible photos of my writing. Sadly I was just trying to capture the words I'd written, so didn't take any full-wall pictures with Zoe's woven sculptures:

archive: I was never attracted to Superman

Published first in 4W Twenty in 2009 (as Super Man), and again in Teetering on the Highwire, in 2009.

I was never attracted to Superman

I was never attracted to Superman

How do you love a man
who never farts
never falls
never lets his hair get out of place
never drinks
and curls up helpless,
dewy, missing a shoe
never talks for hours
about himself and
forgets who's in the room
never holds still
to let his brain catch up
never runs
to leave it behind?

How do you love a man
who's been everywhere
and seen everything
but tells no stories?
Just please
and thank you
and excuse me
even if he says it like
I love you.

How do you love a man
when he never shows himself?

No
I was never attracted to Superman
I always wanted
to fuck Clark Kent.

© Laura Smith 2008