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A re-imagining of Amos Tutuola's 'Television-handed Ghostess' from 'My Life in the Bush of Ghosts' (1954). With Rebecca Lee.

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and if the Sorceress should touch the live screens of her cool glass hands to your feverish brow you will begin to see

you will begin to see

through the most unimaginably relaxing static haze

inaccessible things
beautiful and disturbing things
things bathed in no light ever seen in nature

you will see the last white leopard left alive in the world

the last white leopard left alive in the world where she rolls like a kitten, over and over inside her mountain cave among dark blue shadows and thick red dust

you will be lured by skin under liquid silk, learn to love the sight of skin on screens, expensive skin, skin whose cleansers and creams are all absorbed

you will learn the allure of exclusive skin, alone

and when the Sorceress draws her translucent sleeve across your face, hides her own distracted eyes then leans down to speak with you, alone

leans in so close her breath is yours

you will not see that her fingers are made for transmission, never notice that her finger-nails are ten transistors painted cherry-red

you will only know her voice and breath

you are adrift already

you are lulled into the most reassuring state you will ever sleep, to dream with no trace of restlessness

to dream of the last white leopard left alive in the world

the last white leopard left alive in the world as she rolls like a kitten among the dark blue shadows, the last white leopard in her mountain cave, the last white leopard turning over and over through the most relaxing endless unconscious night you have ever spent in the breath of the Sorceress as she dissolves

dissolves you

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from Exotica Suite, released July 10, 2015
Voice: Rebecca Lee
Lyric: Wayne Burrows
Music: Paul Isherwood
With: Adam Cann & Dorian Conway

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Paul Isherwood & Wayne Burrows Nottingham, UK

Paul Isherwood has released four LPs with The Soundcarriers: Harmonium & Celeste (Melodic), The Other World Of The Soundcarriers (Great Pop Supplement) and Entropicalia (Ghost Box).

Wayne Burrows' recent publications include The Holcombe Tarot (2014), Black Glass: New & Selected Poems and Exotica Suite & Other Fictions (Shoestring Press, 2015). ... more

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