From Grapefruit by Yoko Ono

from Grapefruit by Yoko Ono

PAINTING TO BE CONSTRUCTED IN YOUR HEAD
Look through a phone book from the
beginning to end thoroughly.
List all combinations of figures
you remember right after that.

PAINTING TO SEE THE SKIES
Drill two holes into a canvas.
Hang it where you can see the sky.
(Change the place of hanging.
Try both the front and the rear
windows, to see if the skies are
different.)

LAUGH PIECE

Keep laughing all week.

VOICE PIECE FOR SOPRANO

Scream.

1. 
   against the wind
   
2. 
   against the wall
   
3. 
   against the sky
   

TUNAFISH SANDWICH PIECE

Imagine one thousand suns in the sky at the same time.

Let them shine for one hour.

Then, let them gradually melt into the sky.

Make one tunafish sandwich and eat.

SECRET PIECE
Decide on what note you want to play.

Play it with the following accompaniment:

The woods from 5 am to 8 am

in summer.

selected by Frank Sherlock:
SHOOT ONE HUNDRED PANES OF GLASS

When a person hurts you badly,

lines up 100 panes of glass in
the field and shoot a bullet
through it.
Take a copy of a map made by
the cracks of each glass and
send a map a day for 100 days
to the person who has hurt you.


MIRROR PIECE

Instead of obtaining a mirror,
obtain a person.
Look into him.
Use different people.
Old, young, fat, small, etc.


ECHO TELEPHONE PIECE

Get a telephone that only echoes back
your voice.
Call every day and talk about many
things.


CLOSET PIECE III

Kill all the men you  have slept with.

Put the bones into a box and send it out into
the sea with flowers.


TOUCH POEM FOR GROUP OF PEOPLE

Touch each other.