The Lion’s Face with a Limp Gesture
Turns Corrosive and Erotic—
a body is worked by artifice
a body seduced, a body
to be seduced, a body in its passion
separated from its truth
a body delivered to appearances
as a principle of uncertainty
The lion’s face seems so beautiful
as it appears
so completely put on
The lion’s face walking choking down childhoods
Take me to your room and fuck me
With tree limbs and lye, with magma
with harsh antiseptics poured into my asshole
with lilies, with meat cleavers, flay me with bullwhips
fuck me with a statement
that emanates something more than beauty
something more sublime, a different seduction—
a one-eyed doe eating grass out the window
is a totemic gesture of innocence and violence
a rapist skull-fucking a deer is part of a pantomime
at both ends the sign is fragility
the doe is fragile in its new environment
the rapist refuses to be seduced
and there is deception in all pantomime
whether it be “flutes and feathered fans” or “shields and axes”
The lion’s face both a drag queen and a real woman
The lion’s face like deer children
fresh out of their placenta, laid on white linen
in hospitals, who gouge a home into my stomach for fun
and devour my body, much the same
as when a voyeur devotes himself to a body to be devouring
a body’s gaping voracity
The lion’s face a throng of yellow and red stars
The lion’s face of heart-shaped guts
The lion’s face smelling like rotten mangoes, bug-eaten from the inside out
forms transversal to every power, the secret, virulent forms
that make everything speak, everything babble, everything climax—
credits
from The Lion's Face,
released November 10, 2012
Words & voice: Tim Van Dyke // Music: Brian Howe
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