GREG FAY "Commitment To Hang" c90

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“To Eat the Desert Entire”
by Greg Fay
from "Commitment to Hang" – C90 cassette, magnetic sand-dust inside

I set out one dawn with a spoon made of blister,
To dine on the dunes,
To hush the wind’s whisper.

Forkless and faithless,
I chewed every grain—
The warmth of the quartz,
The shimmer of pain.

My stomach, a kiln.
My teeth, like regret.
Each swallow a pact
With a god I’d not met.

The mirage clapped once—
Aphids applauded.
Parthenogenetic applause.
No males nodded.

Insects born twice, or not born at all,
Sang lullabies spun
From a dust devil's call.

Bees buzzed from my mouth.
Ants hatched in my spine.
Wasp wings from my ears,
Still humming in time.

Commitment to hang
Is a hunger profound.
I married the sun
And devoured the ground.

Autumn came late with its sexual show—
But I birthed the horizon
Without needing a beau.

(Side B)
A single whisper, looped in sand-muffled hiss:

“The desert is full now.
It lives in my type of sex-determination system, the offspring's sex is determined by the number of sets of chromosomes an individual receives. This system is typical in bees and wasps”

Edition of one copy, unduplicated.

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