How to be Both

by Ali Smith

I fished the seed out of the piss : it was a thing that has to fall to rise :

Then the fault is with your thinking, or with the person who has changed your thinking, not with me,

(cause it’s true that this is what falconers will do to keep a bird hungry and sharp, they’ll fool it into thinking it’s been well fed by giving it pellets of stone so that when the hood is removed and the bird out working it’s surprised by its own hunger which makes it sharper-eyed than ever in finding prey).