AN OUTSIDE CHANCE

HOPE OUTSIDE THE EMPIR(ical)

Is there still hope
if nothing can be done?
I didn't say that. Maybe that's where it comes from.
OK. Let's see where it goes.
When nothing can be done.
Hope in the empire is different you know.
How so? Here it's all about results.
Hope's bottom line.
Like marketing. Marketing hope?
Marketing hope is big business, you bet.
But the world doesn't market hope.
Nope. Not at all. It's everywhere.
Elsewhere hope is.
Elsewhere, well, it's something else.
You might say closer.
Say more and those carrying it take offense.
You're not saying, you're not making a case for--
Yes, I probably am.

Jim Bodeen
8 February 2011--11 February 2011
Mothership