Devil's Rope Museum, 100 Kingsley St.,
Mclean, TX, Dec. 6

Dear Libertines,

"Barbed wire" like all forms of exclusion has three parts—predators outside, prey inside, and a razor spur between. Here, in a converted brassiere factory, it's all about the gage and weight by bale, salesman's samples, the history of how a single patent changed the diet and property laws of America. I'm more caught up in piercings and prison yards. How certain kinds of pain are consecrated and certain kinds condemned.

shrike's larder —
the thorn
of memory

Yours, Trespasser Bob