Goodbye / Brighton, UK / Jun 2009

Small golden notebook with poem, dropped in the mailbox of 22, Borough Street, Brighton.

On the 28th of June 2009 I turned 22. On that day I wrote the poem "Goodbye", which I had composed earlier in the year, in a small, found, golden notebook and went on a walk to find a suitable mailbox to put it in. Borough Street was chosen because it had a strange sign, of a hand pointing it's finger, under
the street name.

The poem is about breaking up with somebody important. My gesture is both personal, as it represents moving on to a new part of my life, as well a play with private and public space, within the context of mail art and concrete poetry. The last three pages put the finding into context for the person discovering it.

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