ay.eye.ay
believe what they say that they intend to destroy us and fall back into your mind’s eye
zavé martohardjono, filmed by Tatyana Tenenbaumay.eye.ay
SOUND TRANSCRIPTION
three matches ignite
ocean roars
fresh water streaming over rocks | breath
(softly) ay, ah ay, ah ay, ah
(softly) beware of borders beware of the unmasked believe what they say that they intend to destroy you
(softly) ay, ah ay, ah ay, ah
construction workers clang | birds sing
eye spend my time alone, but eye am not alone
“i” is a fallacy
“i” is false
“i” is delusion
“i” is delusion “i” is illusion “i” is delusion “i” is illusion
“i” | “i”
is a Western notion | is a Western
notion
birds sing | dead hair dead weight
dead hair dead weight dead
neighbors
whirring wind | (softly) as you die, “i” die too
eye die with you
birds sing | eye of the storm, eye of the beholder
not “i”, just eye
birds sing | beware of cowboys, beware of Americans who desire to spread disease
beware of lies | beware of triple
beware of lines | killer structural isms
beware of cowboys | beware of lies
beware of borders | beware of lines
beware of cowboys who don’t want you to know you belong
birds sing | (softly) dislocated this body got drifted
eye here who knows how eye know how
eyeherewhoknowshow, eyeknowhow
this body got
here
eye
am
praying three generations back to feel the ground on
days eye don’t know where “i” am, ay pray
alone
ay pray alone because loneliness is so Western beware of cowboys
and when alone prayingsingingdancing
eye am never really alone
Embah eye to eye with me | Embah ay to ay with me
Embah ay to ay with me, her broad face staring at mine
she appears in thin air
birds sing | ay am flying ay am grasping ay am dreaming
the good kind of delusion
tasting my bloodline
1 2 3 4
bodies
a match ignites | who came from her body back back back in time
birds sing | beware of unmasked
traffic honks | believe what they say that they intend to destroy us and
fall back into your
mind’s eye/i/ay to find
your mother’s mother’s mother’s
suckteeth sound that says
NEVER
that says ay, ay, ay, ay
eye
ay, ay, ay, ay
ay, ay, ay, ay
i
ay, ay, ay, ay
ay, ay, ay, ay
eye
ay, ay, ay, ay
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