“The dog ate my homework. Not exactly. I needed a title and found myself writing on some old “Art Review” with Sarah Lucas on it’s cover. The title turned into a poem. Accidentally I threw my poem away and it refused to revisit me ever again. A temporary loan, it was written down on a virgin white page with SAINT LAURENT PARIS logo. I wrote the Yves back to the Saint Laurent and concluded with MF or Motherfucker. YVES SAINT LAURENT MF or put back the horn on the unicorn. This, just a footnote has suddenly been promoted as I’m typing away about the thing I lost. You, me, we understand “Art Review”, Sarah Lucas and we understand problem with Saint Laurent Paris or the end of an era, now Gall Era/Cholera. This still isn’t my poem. My lost one dealt with DUDU, a word for ‘black’ in the Yoruba language, it shares many words with ancient Egyptian, the black image of Osiris. It’s an ‘African black soap’ and it also means ‘shit.’ Doudou reads like ‘Me’, ‘myself’, ‘Sweetheart’, or ‘Darling girl’. It is also something soft and cuddly. I see myself forced now to cut and to paste frivolous facts and self imposed explanations although all I ever had ‘was,’ full stop, the punctuation mark most commonly found at the end of a sentence. Oh Damn, Amnesia, Du, what am I to do? And the coloured girls say,
doo do doo do doo do do doo
doo do doo do doo do do doo
doo do doo do doo do do doo
doo do doo do doo do do doo
doo do doo do doo do do doo”
Danai Anesiadou (*1976) is an artist. She lives and works in Brussels.