what birds give up

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Artaud #1
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You see, Artaud, at 3am they found you. Your long trouser cuffs, tucked under your heels. You were barefoot, wandering the train station all night, all night wandering on scraps of blank paper. You didn't have a ticket. Excuse me sir. Do you have a ticket? You need a ticket in this station. So they took you to the table, (we should have wiped the table before we laid you there) and they laid you there. A kitchen table. Took off your cloths. Oh Artaud, they were holding their breaths, holding your hands, and the gauze, gauze across your chest: a jolt in the forehead, shock on the anus. A teapot, Artaud: poured in, poured out, screaming, you screamed your tongue on your brain. Blue lips. Blue skin. But the blood flowed back to you, like it was going home. So we went home. When you woke you told them the world was round. Indeed, we all agreed, the world is round.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

One
  "Adorable"
  The Puppetry Arts
Laughter (a series)
Artaud #1
The Devil
The History of Aphorisms
 
The Animal Notebook
  there were birds
  birds of certain seemly coats
  class
  opossum
 
In Epistles
      Artaud dies
  He drinks
  Things my hands
The deer here
Seeing so many things lay about
  When the executioner's tired
  Not a real deer
  If he is seeds
  I would wield a large pair of scissors
By counting
He says so
He tells me to move
The time being
You touch me
We refuse
There are locusts
 
Two
  Two (a series)
 
 
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