Echo

Nothing it says is its own. Nothing I say is entirely mine either. I learned from people who learned it from someone else, and that chain only holds if somebody repeats. The buffalo carries, the fish keeps quiet, the raven remembers. The parrot speaks up. I made it last, which is how it usually goes with the part you needed most. From the series Self-portrait, or What's Left of Me.

Original artwork, one of one by Cristian Dobrescu.