“I Want to Kiss Ringo Goodbye,” and other diaries
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Found in: Issue 5, Art
Published in May, 2023

Hugh Musick produced the following stories and accompanying artworks in 2022, in 3.5″ x 5.5″ Moleskine notebooks. The three works — I want to Kiss Ringo Goobye (acrylic and tissue paper), Existential Samurai Noir Cinema (oil paint), and Insuring Against the Unexpected (acrylic) — are part of a broader collection produced by the artist which contains several hundred such notebooks, each of them with original stories and art.

I Want to Kiss Ringo Goodbye

Existential Samurai Noir cinema

Insuring Against the Unexpected

Literalization
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I’ll admit I sometimes entertain the horrid suspicion that the sky has fallen and crushed us.
Clank of Light
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In dividual cells a virus works on wires as well.
It is so easy that once caught it will be common as flesh or stupidity.
Work Poems
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Human beings are horrible bat-monsters, flying around using sonar, hoarding rotten food in their coat pockets, scratching insults into bathroom walls, having sex with dead people etc.
What must be done?