Lost and Found

Who lost, what found? What lost, who found?

The world is an endless complex of lost and found. You lose dead skin. Hair follicles take to the sky in ghostly wisps. You excrete today’s breakfast, you ingest animal fat and spirulina at lunch, voyages are undertaken on inspired whims. Where are you going? Why? Apparently it’s to learn. It is to expand. It is to lose oneself in unexpected scenarios, facades, and strangers’ lives swaddling yours like thrift store blankets. You find strangers. You become lovers. You lose yourself in a stranger-lover, you burn calories (they are lost) when engaging flesh to flesh with the stranger-lover, and two days come and go, and you are gone, the stranger’s gone, loss becomes the storyline, that’s how you find a new storyline in which to lose yourself related to loss. This is the way of the world, the simulcast walkabout of being. We traffic in way stations of lost and found. Gone today, here tomorrow. Like that.

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About John Biscello

Originally from Brooklyn, NY, writer, poet, performer, and playwright, John Biscello, has lived in the high-desert grunge-wonderland of Taos, New Mexico since 2001. He is the author of four novels, Broken Land, a Brooklyn Tale, Raking the Dust, Nocturne Variations, and No Man’s Brooklyn; a collection of stories, Freeze Tag, two poetry collections, Arclight and Moonglow on Mercy Street; and a fable, The Jackdaw and the Doll, illustrated by Izumi Yokoyama. He also adapted classic fables, which were paired with the vintage illustrations of artist, Paul Bransom, for the collection: Once Upon a Time, Classic Fables Reimagined. His produced, full-length plays include: LOBSTERS ON ICE, ADAGIO FOR STRAYS, THE BEST MEDICINE, ZEITGEIST, U.S.A., and WEREWOLVES DON’T WALTZ.
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