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BLOOD PIECE

Use your blood to paint.
Keep painting until you faint. (a)
Keep painting until you die. (b)

(1960 spring)




LAUGH PIECE

Keep laughing a week.

(1961 winter)




NUMBER PIECE I

Count all the words in the book
instead of reading them.

(1961 winter)




WALL PIECE

Sleep two walls away from eachother.
Whisper to eachother.

(1963 autumn)




SHADOW PIECE

Put your shadows together until
they become one.

(1963)




PAPER FOLDING PIECE

Fold certain parts of a paper and read.
Fold a crane and read.

(1963 spring)




HIDE-AND-SEEK PIECE

Hide until everybody goes home.
Hide until everybody forgets about you.
Hide until everybody dies.

(1964 spring)




SMOKE PIECE

Smoke everything you can.
Including your pubic hair.

(1964 spring)




CLOSET PIECE III

Kill all the men you have slept with.
Put the bones in boxes and send it out into
the sea with flowers.

(1964 spring)




 - Yoko Ono, ur Grapefruit. A book of Instructions and Paintings