(2012 New Years Day text for duet performance with Sally Silvers:
sketches for 9 ‘musicals’)

 

A.      DO THE STARS BEGIN TO FALL

1.              (thinking thinking)  

Touch Screen to Begin

geek slo-mo

continuity comes later

hodgepodge

enucleate

lickety-split

skullfuck

caught with more meat in your mouth

gisto facto

zigzag

fake arms

 

2.              (thinking loving)   

at home he’s a condom

put some slink in it

blurt past

wearing a little furry mask

or exactly what you do or exactly what happens

so we’re on a first name basis

meaning is just nostalgia now

double-dutch

actin’ like

that’s weird, I said

 

3.              (thinking protest)   

say ‘Speak to an Agent’

gears gears up

all too eagle

I will step on your face

function fucks form

cross-dressing neutrinos

oh I can’t deal with this shit

icing on the cake

objects need adventure too

investigationalizing

tomorrowland

which you totally nailed

well, run the experiment again

Icouldnothavesaidarandomstringofwordsbetter

get to your space station

if I get through a few sentences a day...

 

 

B.       I V DRIP

4.              (loving thinking)  

outtakes from

inspandexical

hint of slo-mo self-importance

marveletme

we call it ‘deep naked’

tighten the intercushioned radical sympathectonomy

bang bang

the verb to autobio

self-fucking

even your tourniquet rejects you

for goody-goody reasons

& now we are hospitalized

instant puppy

humans don’t get anywhere by themselves

 

5.              (loving loving)    

Get Off the Rug!  You too!

happily never after

the ickier the better

do it faster

ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever

we could forever, I’m a forgetter

the wrong gets better

emotions do not feel

feelings do not emote

Love is a 4 letter word

Mister Big Shot is 13 letters

Schoolgirl Uniform wins — at 17

vowels talk back, side by side

foxygenated

bungee teardrop, anal humidor

an opportunity to:

give up give over give back give out give a little

I’d rather you wore a mask

which we just did, so hurrah for us

better than rehab

use the knife to hold up your dress

all hearts are stoolies

you only live once or twice

heart-shaped parachutes

[name withheld]

 

6.              (loving protest)   

eat your heart

screw the alone

rodeo and roller derby

breastpump with GPS

emotion is the giveaway

was there tongue?

I cheated on the Princess

inside your skin

blowing your little whistle

on animal planet

well that kills the mood

when the possible gets to be psychiatry

get fancy

try anything

then it goes into the conga line

and you?

 

 

C.      RAISE YOUR HANDS IF YOU’RE...

7.              (protest thinking)   

The Emphasizer

are you going to tell me, or

should I call the Psychic Friends Network?

got any tighter nooses?

& all of these freaks

the dingdong-in-itself

zombie boy, stay the same

[BLACKED OUT]

hogless planet

made of bombs

a.k.a. a.k.a

fuck rock, let’s art!

 

8.              (protest loving)    

evilicious

hamster on a hot plate

(patent pending)

(cue laugh track)

what am I, velveeta?

neo-taxidermy

meta-commodify — ka-ching!

eat the rich

fetch me the grub worms

all folked up

love buys money

who told you to wear a costume?

 

9.              (protest protest)    

We fight

honk, yeah

Adam & Eve pepper spray

frack not want not

Ya Basta!

hey, ‘Yard Sale’!

hey, ‘Night School’!

defiance

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tighten the intercushioned radical sympathectonomy