Question and Butter

 

Exactly.
Actually.
Question and butter.
I find the butter very good.

 

Taken from:
Gertrude Stein
Lifting Belly
Tallahassee: Naiad Press, 1989

 

Editorial note: This review was made for print (which allowed the reviewed material on the left page to spill over into the review on the right page; see below). It was originally published in Tydningen (no 35, 2020), a Swedish literary journal for poetry, criticism and theory.