Browsing Tag 'libretto'
Written for Black Harlequin in Sydney, 1991, not long after completing Gibson’s Neuromancer. Like city neon, garbled radio voices tuning in and out of white noise heaven. Turning point. Transition. I awoke! A thin strip of blue, maybe ink, above each eye. I sat up exhausted. What were they telling me? My mind raced throughout [...]
Written in the Philippines for Black Harlequin (1992), a spoken word opera. Performed solo and with the Fierce Throat Choir. — Die like a tourist Your mama said you would Crawl like hugo clockwork Draggin chains from Daisy’s wood You got blistered nipples so colourSo tortured by the sun Mama’s doin time While you load [...]
Written for Black Harlequin, (1991) a spoken word opera. — JSL JSL NON JSL JSL NON MEE JSL JSL NON MII JSL JSL JSL I love the way breeze pulls at your hair Unravels the tussles, leaving your fingers bare Fingers clutching out of extinction When all them bones shake off their graves I love [...]
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