Post’d: Passports into Postcards (to keep somebody else *remembered*) – Dave Olson's Creative Life Archive

Post’d: Passports into Postcards (to keep somebody else *remembered*)

Inky stamps, each with significance, Otherwise, why even stamp?

Though i’m not an Egyptologist officially, I do know that the old-timey Egyptians believed you died a second time when people stopped talking about / remembering you.

As such, i’m keeping the folks (from CCCP, Albania, Yugoslavia, Romania and so on) in these passports alive in a sort of way by making them into postcards and sending them on special missions out into the world

you can find the full freeverse poem “Flood’d” elsewhere in this archive if curious

With relevant snippet of handcrafted poetry on reverse (Flood’d).

Passports, party membership & ration books, now postcards

Are you in the diplomatic club of mysterious goodness? $5/mo gets you handcrafted art & story.

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