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were planned for being abandoned in parks or any other leisure sites./
For the PRIMARY BOOK I did: “LUTE” (PORTUGUESE WORD FOR
FIGHT OR STRUGLE) / SOS ( THAT MEANS IN PORTUGUESE the
[...] word for HELP AND ALSO THE PLURAL FOR ALONE) / later 1968
already inNYC I made MENWOMEN the endlessfence a poem for a
park. / From that to the hand size objects that Icalled POCKET STUFF.
magical TO / KEN . THEnecessary MEMORY POEM To be carried
with you like a talisman. / IN 1965 IDIO MARMITAS wooden boxes that
were extrutures / to be carried, with bearing reliefs images and written
words, THEY were I think / foresight of the “pocket stuff”. / Afterwards
came the top table toys HOUSE and TOOL that the spectator can
manipulate changing the meaning of words and also creating a kind of
mini / architecture as if each letter is born from oneanother and as if the
spectator / discovered the meaning, at this very moment. / Their start
was in the necessity to create a special kind of object hand size that
would terach people how to read. Since 1965 I was worried with that /
problem and as you all know 3/4 of the population Below the Equator
is illiterate, // I never accomplished this project to the very end. // this
designation was invented by the brasilian neo-concrete poet FERREIRA
GULLAR. / in 1959. / new York OCT. 70