From a letter from a muse to his maker: "Do you know 15 years ago I wrestled with a guy in a tiny town in the jungle near Tikal, in Guatemala, until he gave me the keys to the cages where three jaguars were kept? And I let out the jaguars and they ran off into the trees? I cannot go to Guatemala again because I think they would put me in a cage! What bothered me was the fact that the jaguars in the cages were visited at night by wild jaguars. The wild ones pissed on the cages or fucked in the freedom and the ones behind bars had to sit there suffering. I could not stand that idea. Yes, you are burnt into my brain because I see you in a cage. And the keys are right here, in these photographs. This is another jaguar who can tear up the world if nobody grabs her. Just let her go. It’s not like I want to hold onto you and say do this or do that, but that I can open the door and get out of your way, and if I am very lucky the cat realizes I had something to do with her freedom, and she asks me to follow her and see everything she does, how wild her nature really is. This is the story I have tried to write all my life. I think it is a fundamental way that men look at women, or romanticize about what females think and feel. But there are not books like this." -- January 11,2009. This passage is used as the opening lines of the section called "Farmgirl In Pieces" in a short movie being edited by Dave Snider in Washington, starring Maya Nelson and written by Blue.
