Are we doing the right thing?*

August 3, 2021

 

 

 

 

 

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.