Are we doing the right thing?*

A poem and painting inspired by a question posed by Robert Walser, by Yxta Maya Murray.

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Robert Walser understood.

He wanted to be microscopic like

handwriting. Berlin was a fiasco but

before they captured him he walked

into breezes, loving the forest, his

sturdy boots oiled and scuffed with mud.

* The question that Robert Walser asked his sister Lisa in 1929, before his commitment to the Waldau asylum.

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