They Will Sew the Blue Sail

¹“Each spring, thousands of harp seals are born on the stark ice floes off the Canadian coastlines of Newfoundland, Labrador, and the Gulf of St. Lawrence. In March, the world’s largest annual slaughter of marine mammals will resume. Thousands of harp seals will be clubbed, hooked and skinned to death for their fur. In 2008, the Canadian seal massacre took the lives of over 220,000 seal pups. About 95% of the seals killed in the commercial seal ‘hunt’ are no more than 3 months old. The [Canadian] government calls this massacre ‘harvesting’ and regulates the hunt using the term ‘fishery’ for their numbers. Most of the sealers come from Newfoundland and the Magdalen Islands of Quebec.”

²Human hayride. No animals were harmed in the making of these videos.

³“I’m suffering very much, but am I suffering very well? That’s the point!”

⁴“I hear her voice
calling my name
I hear her voice
and start to run
I’m lost in a forest
the girl was never there
I’m running toward nothing.”

⁵“My girlfriend, she said yes, she is starting to cry.”

⁶“Pretending something that’s not true is true for the sake of finding out what’s true.” “Life is a state of mind.”

⁷Scansion

⁸“Under his bare foot, there’s the mud of a marsh, a shiver of water, faint, distant, even. The body is limp, soft, as if broken, terrifyingly inert. The foot presses again. It sinks in, touches the framework of bones, presses again.”

⁹He lost his virginity to a petite Jewish girl peaking on acid. Her sex exuded the smell of fresh dough. She remembered nothing the next day. Only he knew what was taken.

“His fingers made red smears across the curve of her rib cage. ‘Here...’ She forced his fingertips underneath. ‘You have to push hard.’ The skin parted and his fingers sank in.”

¹⁰“Erika removes the [penis] from her mouth and instructs its owner: In the future she is going to make a list of all the things he can do to her. [Her] wishes will be jotted down and made available to [him] at any time.”

¹¹“One monotonous day follows another.”

¹²Her irises: the iridescent smoky green of absinthe or of the Chicago River.

¹³Each listed category is a fetish.

¹⁴Index the index in the cervix.

¹⁵“Why am I letting this guy cum on my face?”

¹⁶“Not every end is a goal. The end of a melody is not its goal; but nonetheless, if the melody had not reached its end it would not have reached its goal either. A parable.”