before 13 May 1998 (perhaps as early as 1994)
title (as used in Kim’s game) thanks to Olivier Messiaen
p0sthuman: the evening before p.142
La Parole toute-puissante
if I once had breasts then now
I slip through shades where secret tumours
hide I never stop to wonder why
books slide from shelves they’re listless rumours
their saliva chokes my mouth the intransigent
past performs like seals – my parents who
once were tiny faces in the sky