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nights spend drinking from paper balloons back roam
I gave you the seed
you gave me manhood
while mother qoose was being laid in the

FILM CLIP II.

turgidly I pass the hours
unable to DDve in the dying love
lIfY hand approaches your throat; choking ~
yet at the same time
stroking your neck up and down
the white-syrop word flow 'from your .1!IOuth
passifying you again in artificial joy
hatred in nailing me in place

III.
walking with half a buttocks
the cat passes
into awareness
a year lost building the road

my fi.nqer nail pricked inside my nose
and deposited f!fJ.y brain in the cat' s milk
a lousy investment
for now the cat is nursing others

having been weaned from the cat
I seek love
I touch her so gently
like a doctor ex:amining a sagging breast
seems love always has a spreading lump

F'IIlI CLIP·III.

I place a stack of discs on the stereo
hoping each oc::mponenot f life
can p~y in unison

then each speaker di.vides

the whole in two

again

the cat is a:aong conm::mthieves

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