A4 Clipboard

I noticed my SYSMAX A4 Clipboard staring up at me from a horizontal storage area (the floor). It is a beautiful and sweetly incoherent thing, purchased from a United States outpost of the Korean stationery chain ArtBox. Down the right side of the clipboard, in right-justified sans serif:

Jeudi

There is only one

happiness in life,

to love and to be

loved.

LIVE THE LIFE YOU’VE IMAGINED

A4®

Mardi

The busier you are,

the more you need to take

time to do things right.

Jeudi

We need to record words

for our learning.

Vendredi

Have you given any thought

to your future? Let’s

do one thing at a time.

Samedi

Everyone is necessarily the

hero of his own life story.

SYSMAX

And that’s the end.

Thursday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday?

The sentence “We need to record words for our learning” makes me think of Bob Perelman’s poem “China.”