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MEAT.
Night after day, stunning flesh of absolute nerves.
Waxed and chilled, marrow and femur
Desire for fulmination.
Under the tongue capsules of color decant.
A tracheal taste, bled dry of dividends.
Night tariff, meat in an old brawl,
make it a museum,
a stone to construct a rare vice.
The floor of salvation / curare
will escape nonetheless.
HIS GLASS OF
His glasses,
which he throws sometimes into his glass
to refresh his drink
and chill his peppermint eyes.
K.O. his rival
the eye-index vibrato.
The armed machine of my Fender Jaguar.
Music turns passion to vinegar.
TO THE GREAT THIEVES.
There’s the wait, the maddening bug of begging.
Love exactly not.
Oxygen for ornament fish.
I was often skipped over.
Inhalation/ Exhalation.
Idiots, top-notch thieves.
Money pities assistance.
As much ignorance as windows to windows.
No Belle.
I hand myself over, let’s take the roundtrip to Beau Geste.
GEORGES OF GORRONNES
The electricity intrigued
the lightbulb beyond
these hopes.
Impossible to be angry
or to see through
slow his shoulders
rings by rings
Stretch another canvas
in the dark;
the underground painting
concealed in her breast.
10000 PERFECT CRIMES
UNPUNISHED EVERY TIME
Wake up in water, a chewed-up cigarette
ripped from the lips.
The sunken windows, the
ancestors croak, conveyor belt.
Everything, everything is pleasing backwards.
Plan ruined: I play the gnome
he recites it himself.
align: or exaggerate his gestures,
spin around, move
the Curious with a black pawn,
a white stain of sun.
Love is war.
My flesh frames the result,
grasps my taxidermied flesh
the bitch.
Model existence of machination,
soldiers who shake the trees
hunting dogs on their shoulders.
Battle a germ by scraping
the throat like a pinhead.
A furious fool condescends well below
that because the fuse is on a voyage
nevertheless, never full stop.
"The late French singer Lizzy Mercier Descloux was a visionary in her own right who encapsulated limitless post-punk ideals. In light of a new reissue series, Laura Snapes chronicles her pioneering solo work." Read the Pitchfork profile of Lizzy Mercier Descloux.
Lizzy Mercier Descloux - Press Color (1979) full Album. Original sound recording made by ZE Records ℗ 1979 ZE Records Vinyl, LP, Album, W. Germany - 1979 Island Records — 202 497-320. Recorded at Blank Tapes Studio, New York City, February 79
