history book / hands on one for the first time / turning it / stroking it / opening it / torn title page / smoothing it / until now there was no history in my world / old bible tells of world earlier than one living / me Master taut me ta reed / god it wer difficult / fuckin spellin! / paintins a treat by camparisan / now / this book has been writn by one man / I think / torn title page / smoothing it / or many men / women dogs horses ants / shad ap! / tis an ol bible / fingering the worn binding / one or many dead now / we paint a picture of many mens writing / bent over desks / scriptorium / who said that? / then we sens it far far away / aye / behin tha sun / an / where we’s completely unknowns / story of painting story of ol torn book relic / both stories within a book / painting / book / ? / sharpenin me pencil here I goes / story for me tired ol grumpy Master / became a game they played / boy pretends hes writing a letter to his Master / respectful letter / yet intimate and friendly as befitting relationship teacher and pupil / later / firs read tha book / som characters named / others not / names evoke individual faces / we are inside Angelino’s vivid mind / those without individual name are if not faceless / vague / almost unknown / our unmarked graves / Angelino’s apple lips move / thought his name / perhaps I do a self-portrait / me own way / one with mirror / one wif out / fuck reduction / sod yr fuckin names / wish I could shout / break labels / lost interest / caressed the book / worn bible leather dream