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Lola Lemire Tostevin
From Color of her speech
epigraph:
“Even as a melody is not composed of tones, nor a verse of words, nor a statue of lines, one must pull and tear a unity into a multiplicity, so it is with the human being to whom I say You. I can abstract from his the color of his hair or the color of his speech or the color of his graciousness; I have to do this again and again; but immediately he is no longer You.”
— Martin Buber
tout ce qui commence
par amour
se divise
se multiple
en singularités
le seing des reins
se compose
pour se décomposer
dénomme
pour dénoncer
mais jamais
on se défait
de nos cicatrices
Majuscules
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to remove the whole
of the tongue the mouth
is widely opened
with a gag the organ
transfixed with silk
the glossus divided
with a pair of scissors
écraseurs or crushers
the base cut through
by a series of short snips
as it becomes easier
to pull the tongue
well out of the mouth
each vessel is dealt with
as soon as divided
the remaining undivided
portion of the organ
seized with forceps
and lifted from the cavity
in cases where only one side
of the tongue
needs to be eliminated
the operation is modified
by splitting the tongue
down the centre
the affected half removed
through the neck
through a semilunar incision
along the lower jaw
extending backward to the hyoid bone
the tongue can then be reached
through the floor of the mouth
and removed with the crushers
the main objection to this operation
is that the larynx
and all the muscles in the area
are divided
preventing normal breathing
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once
the mouth
stood empty
it was easy
to introduce
your difference
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In Sanskrit, kedesha, independent woman
is a synonym for harlot
Erich Neuman
The Origins and History of Consciousness
Blanche Neige
La Bell au Bois Dormant
language disappears
still repeats itself
woman written
woman dreamed
kedesha holy
kedesha whore
The Undifferentiated Function
Fren Freud Sanskrit
myths and legends
as old as men
and oh how you love women
who are sealed
seek women
who are nameless
for nothing quickens
your imagination
as a siren without repertory
Hérodiade
La Belle Dame Sans Merci
The Lady of Shalott
breathed into animation
kedesha kedesha
and now that you are looking
for another woman
who are you leaving?
kedesha?
kedesha
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“The body has been made so problematic for women that it has often seemed easier to shrug it off and travel as a disembodied spirit.
… we must touch the unity and resonance of our physicality, our bond with the natural order, the corporeal ground of our intelligence.”
Adrienne Rich
“…it is through colors that the subject escapes its alienation within a code”
Julia Kristeva
…
evangelical..free of wit or irony
for choosing the vagina as her mark
of otherness and identity
as jargon
it’s adolescent youth-culture stuff…
and like a baby duck you fixate
on the first thing you see
and that’s mom…
of course
and mom doesn’t have a cunt
especially if she’s a ale surrealist
whose work has been described
as ‘emblematic .. biomorphic abstraction …
amorphous shapes floating in ambiguous space…’
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Gyno-Text
Out of O
into
the
narrow
bare
but
for
this
foreign
marrow
oral
pit
spits
yolk
spins
spine
embryo
rolls
like
a
scroll
breath
of
bone
by
bone
body’s
first
articulation
arteriole
first
vowel
voice
boxed
in
ears
echo
deeper
pounding
tympa
tym
panic
rhythm
of a
heart
some
w)here
eye
ball O
n stalk
sucks
brain
flows
Over
lid
fold
opened
furrow
shows
its
sex
translated
palate
joined
as
one
taste
bud
trickles
salt
in
fine
hair
filament
heart
hollow
dividing
two
ounces
of
bloody
love
and
bitter
ness
brain
bloom
white
web
hemmed
in
spheres
hung
loose
ly
mute
skeleton
moves
to
muscle
string
pulled
taut
from
A
to
Zone
vagin
vagir
enfin
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