This text is presented alongside the exhibition Hot Compost Home Tour by Emily Simek and Doug Webb as part of the Seventh Gallery Emerging Writers’ Program 2024.

HOT
COM-
POST

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to think so as to change and so
to grow and accept, gift and
exchange - one for the other and
the other to befriend then revive
or to share, not to take but to
feed, digest, break apart and put
together - new or old or different
or the same but not the same for
nothing is the same yet
everything is alike or it is
temporary maybe permanent but
to be loved and cared and
nurtured and hugged so tightly

then let go, released, re-made
and re-entered; for everything is
a gift and we lay, dream, fly,
skip, soar, jump into the past and
the present and the future and
fifty times backwards then a
hundred times forward; never
new, never old, just us together
forever and again until the next,
you open your eyes and here we
are again, for better or for worse,
‘til death do us part but we
revive and grow again and again
and again and again and again
and again and again and again
and again and again and again
and again and again and again
and a

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use it don’t reuse it remake com-
press compact it
show it form it change it
r       e         m       i       x it
host guest share lend give it
grow it revive it don’t stop alive
                                                in it 
feed it present it break it
down    it
swallow go yeah digest it
don’t
reuse remake present it