The Memory of the Drift
By Richard Marshall. Did Duchamp say he wanted to become an artist because art had become a cult or because it hadn’t? I can’t remember precisely but that isn’t quite the same as saying I can’t remember at all. Though it might feel that way to anyone who wants to know the answer if they feel it matters. And I’ve heard people sneer that poetry has now withered into being just a cult. The implication of this sneering stance is that being a cult is a bad thing and something that makes poetry