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DO YOU LIKE TO BE STARED AT?

This image shows a blackout poetry piece created on a page of a T.S. Eliot verse drama. All across the page, there are small, scattered illustrations of red and black eyes. At the page's center, there is a pasted image of a group of smiling women eating at a table. The page's text is mostly drawn over in black marker, with select words and phrases left uncovered to reveal a new poetic message against the illustrated and collaged background.

By River Allen

DO YOU LIKE TO BE STARED AT?

Do you like to be stared at ?

Look look

Look !

We are very glad to

look

at

You

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