Roger Stevens wrote:
> Oh no...
>
> there's tar all over the carpet
>
> I must have picked it up on the beach
>
> how am I ever going to get that out?
Dear Tar-dy Pard:
1. Be one with your tar. Use it as decor. Name your
house "Tar-On-Carpet" and put a little bronze plaque out
front. Your tar will be noticed and your tar will be
praised.
2. Hide your tar. Pick a favorite sculpture, food, or
objet d'arte and have multiples made. Cement multiples may
be less costly than other materials, albeit much heavier.
Put the multiples over your tar as an installation. (I have
a sculptor friend who threw life cast material over his
sleeping baby [a twin] and then made cement multiples and
had a cement baby installation all over the grass at Yerba
Buena Gardens. Very effective. I have one of these cement
babies, and believe me, it was a performance piece in itself
getting this child home.)
3. Document your tar and write a poem about it. Then hire
a tar removal specialist. And document that, too. If there
are any tar lumps intact, mail them, unwrapped, to friends.
And document that, as well.
Bless,
PK
