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Sight Unseen Possession 2 - The Dispossessed - Queen Mob's Tea House
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5TH FEB 2015 IN MISC
BY QUEEN MOB
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Possession 2: The Dispossessed
I don’t know and can’t say it. I remember that much. The film’s not all about me but I
watched it in a hotel. I was many floors up and when the phone rang it was for anyone
else. I spent the night asking for more time. I had my wife beside me in a cage. We’d
been going through something, the kind of something where a sequel only gets risked
with one of us behind bars. I become so honest there’s blood. We admired how difficult
it was to pull the leads apart. I’m there afraid at the bottom of what’s difficult and true.
A man is unfaithful with my wife. I watch him fuck her in the eyes. They’re asking me
how I’m feeling, but I’m verbally obtuse. The film has promised to reconfigure my
realities, to feed my greed for it with even less of itself. As successors go this one plans on
staying. If I’m not possessed by the end of it I can build a family through my wife. And
we’ll all wear pink socks in memoriam of what we failed to become again. I remain
untouched by the magic of how it is done, how anything ever ends. The action on screen
plays out my wife’s secrets, and for half an hour I listen as if I’ve never been able to
speak. The film pauses while we throw the baby we had back and forth between us like a
ball. In the air it’s inhuman and when the film starts it’s gone. The mommy and daddy
thing that happened will not outlast us. I look and the cage is empty and my wife is
messing herself on a chair. Jesus crawls all over her, makes her skin into a sweater. I
drink to the family no one will crucify. When the phone rings, it’s the sound of my son
refusing to cry. All I have is crude jokes and polar bears – this same film got up in a wig.
I’m aspiring to be something and then a father to a mountain. The fabric of the
universe was harmed in the making of this film. I articulate the noises of car horns as a
token of my love for it. Even my loss of identity is sexually explicit. The stink of men
from my wife in a sandwich on the floor reflected in the screen. I face the phone to the
film and it puts my son to sleep. When you gaze long into an abyss your wife is there
fucking monsters in the dark. Who can cum inside this misery? I’m an angel. I’m
extinct. I shit into the cunt of my wife and stir it with a teaspoon. She had a job that I
made her give up so I could spend all day pushing her down stairs. My wife doesn’t live
with me anymore, but when she’s tired of happiness she visits. The family in the film is
hurting. Its members are afraid of madness and windows and the man in this room
watching them, eating Turkish, drinking wine. Her kids are in a forest hanging from a
tree. My wife and daughter are psychic and drowned in the bath. The water over them is
continuous with the film. I’m shown pictures of me misusing a dog. It’s the magnitude
of my love. The Zen in my brain is popping corn. God is someone I like. And his children
are amazing: they can scream till they forget how to pray. They’re so deformed they get
drunk on heart attacks. My only ambition in life is to finish this film. I say this to the
telephone. My son laughs so loud I know it isn’t him. My son is darker than a stomach.
He asks if his sisters are still drowned. I snigger cancer or madness, I can’t tell which.
Maybe I’m too stupid to be evil. I tell him to get back to the film. I can think more
clearly now, says my wife, messing herself again. We’re all asking to die first. Even the
dog. I’m wondering how long I have left to become wise. My strength is how alone I can
be. Michaux has a cameo this time round. He’s telling jokes with legs like insects. Going
to the toilet gets to be so automatic I forget I’m doing it, which is less sick more corpse.
Now the film is ending we can kill people. Dead bodies make good wives. And it’s less of a
shock when they take lovers that aren’t human. Murdered is the wrong way to find
clouds. God’s light comes out my son and out the mouth of the telephone. If my wife
wakes I won’t ever get home. I worry that my son’s body is nobody’s address. My soul is
in a rush to act dead again. The one who kills is unhappy in love. Even hurting a child
had me confessing to dogs. I was a boy in a car being driven into the sea. This could have
been your father left open by his wife.
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