Nose 10

PREPARING THE BED

The hard ground
The clean sheet.

The dry point
The spit bite
The foul bite
The hand wipe.

The stained blanket
The fingerprint in the margin.

This text by William Kentridge appears alongside the illustration of this print in William Kentridge Nose: Thirty Etchings, edited by Bronwyn Law-Viljoen and published by David Krut Publishing in 2010.