Alake Shilling, Love Bug Death Match, 2018

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The fish creates things, rejects them, and resurrects them back again.
The fish must always resurrect, as this is what the fish knows.

The fish knows he is a concerned fish, rotting from the head.
He watches himself now, splayed open as spoon scrapes his rib bones.

O how it rings like tiny spiders! O to be a gutted fish! To be gutted all for you!

You see, the fish was once a dog rolled onto back, exposing the softest underbelly.
That dog was so malleable. A dog asking only for love.

The fish was the dog whose softest underbelly had been struck with a sharp blade.

The fish was the dog who had touched fire.
The fish can no longer distinguish the difference between hot fat and cold water.

The fish is a yearning fish. The fish yearns for the video rental store.
The fish yearns again for grapes, so he partakes in the Eucharist.
The fish partakes in that unleavened bread that is an American boy.

"The fish is a fish, they all tell him." The fish knows that is not an adequate description.
The fish is a resurrection. The fish is concerned. The fish is a dog, struck with sharp blade.
The fish rings like tiny spiders. The fish partakes in that unleavened bread that is an American boy!
The fish is a theatre! He thinks.

Enter and eat and drink and partake in his performance!
As for him, it is all theatre. It is all theatre for him.

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