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Boiling Zelda / Womb Envy
Anthony
Carriere , 1995
Performance.
Lights, plastic sheeting, wood, steel, cotton, vacuum cleaner, tricycle
and P A System
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poetry from the performance:
WHEN I WAS A BOY I WOULD SNEAK TO THE LANDFILL A FEW MILES
FROM MY HOME AFTER EVERYONE HAD RETIRED FOR THE DAY i JUMPed
THE FENCE AND CLIMBed DOWN INTO THE FILTH I WOULD COMB THROUGH
GARBAGE FOR HOURS FEELING AS NAUGHTY AS THE FIRST TIME I JERKED
OFF BEING VERY CAREFUL NOT TO BE SPOTTED BY PASSING CARS WHAT
I FOUND DURING MY DIRTY EXCAVATIONS WOULD SOMETIMES FOLLOW
ME HOME OTHER TIMES I WOULD SET THE ITEMS OUT IN ROWS ON THE
FRESHLY UPTURNED CLAY AND STAND OVER THEM INSPECTING MY TREASUREs,
ONLY TO LEAVE THEM THERE FOR THE WORKERS TO STUMBLE UPON THE
NEXT MORNING I WAS VERY PARTICULAR, HOWEVER, ABOUT THE OBJECTS
I SELECTED CAREFULLY WEIGHING each one FOR its WORTH I WOULD
CONSIDER THEIR value AS POSSIBLE ELEMENTS IN MY ELABORATE
PLAY SCHEME THE ULTIMATE PRIZE WAS ALWAYS REPETitIOUS OBJECTS
IF I FOUND 10 EXACT COPIES OF SOMETHING I HAD HIT THE MOTHERLOAD
AND WOULD SPEND THE REST OF THE EVENING LOOKING FOR MORE OF
THE SAME DARKNESS ALWAYS DROVE ME FROM MY SHOPPING SPREE AND
I KNEW THAT the next day THESE PRECIOUS RELICS WOULD BE COVERED
BY A NEW DAY'S TRASH OH! I WONDER HOW MANY OF THOSE GLASS
AVON CARS WERE SHROUDED BY THE WORKERS' TRACKS? _1995.
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