that asian kid, shooting some jazz
hmm not bad, that asian kid, that black hair small eyes
yeah yeah not bad
(爵士1?)
that short fingers short figure short fuse short hair
hey hey who’s, who’s that asian kid
some girl
nah, isn’t that some boy
nah, cant you see those tits
nah that’s a boy for sure
(亦男亦女2?)
hey isn’t that that asian jazz kid
I thought that kid liked pussy
nah I thought that kid liked cock
nah I just thought that kid liked gay
who cares, look, that kid is shooting some jazz nowthe jazz shot through the window into the crying night into
cry houses sitting around crying mothers and children and
the fathers dont cry with tears
will the houses not melt with tears? will the rivers not crash
into tsunamis into storms of fists cracking against wooden
tables factured for carrying the weight of 12 years of red
crosses and ticks dictating rights and wrongs and breaking
the brain into the binary that syncs the computer?
the jazz shot through the eyes and the talking and the
laughing and the bullshitting of the people in the bar, shot
into the veins but didn’t pulse through the bloodstream, ran
a stream omnipresent screaming into the soul, ran it, ran
kid’s feet flying over pavements of China, ran to childhood,
kid crying in tears with tears, begging 妈妈3 not to go,
crying for 妈妈 to pick kid up at lunch, to go home, even
just for an hour, until 8 P.M., when the 8-year-old kids
would be released from their wooden desks factured for
carrying the weight of…red crosses and
ticks…dictating…the brain…
that jazz is roaring like the broken English and the halfway
career and the 7444 kilometres and
that jazz is roaring like the broken English and
that jazz is roaring until the black hair streaks in tear-lashes
to a naked white lashed lashed lashed by the night strung
together by the cigarette smoke damned by the cracked lips
that are gone
that asian kid’s jazz is roaring and screaming and wailing
and everything is dissolving into the cracked basin worn
out by tears and all the colours express themselves in one
pure tone of silence
1 jazz
2 androgyny
3 mum
- 115: SPACE
with A Sometimes
114: NO THEME 13
with J Toledo & C Tse
113: INVISIBLE WALLS
with A Walker & D Disney
112: TREAT
with T Dearborn
111: BABY
with S Deo & L Ferney
110: POP!
with Z Frost & B Jessen
109: NO THEME 12
with C Maling & N Rhook
108: DEDICATION
with L Patterson & L Garcia-Dolnik
107: LIMINAL
with B Li
106: OPEN
with C Lowe & J Langdon
105: NO THEME 11
with E Grills & E Stewart
104: KIN
with E Shiosaki
103: AMBLE
with E Gomez and S Gory
102: GAME
with R Green and J Maxwell
101: NO THEME 10
with J Kinsella and J Leanne
100: BROWNFACE
with W S Dunn
99: SINGAPORE
with J Ip and A Pang
97 & 98: PROPAGANDA
with M Breeze and S Groth
96: NO THEME IX
with M Gill and J Thayil
95: EARTH
with M Takolander
94: BAYT
with Z Hashem Beck
93: PEACH
with L Van, G Mouratidis, L Toong
92: NO THEME VIII
with C Gaskin
91: MONSTER
with N Curnow
90: AFRICAN DIASPORA
with S Umar
89: DOMESTIC
with N Harkin
88: TRANSQUEER
with S Barnes and Q Eades
87: DIFFICULT
with O Schwartz & H Isemonger
86: NO THEME VII
with L Gorton
85: PHILIPPINES
with Mookie L and S Lua
84: SUBURBIA
with L Brown and N O'Reilly
83: MATHEMATICS
with F Hile
82: LAND
with J Stuart and J Gibian
81: NEW CARIBBEAN
with V Lucien
80: NO THEME VI
with J Beveridge
57.1: EKPHRASTIC
with C Atherton and P Hetherington
57: CONFESSION
with K Glastonbury
56: EXPLODE
with D Disney
55.1: DALIT / INDIGENOUS
with M Chakraborty and K MacCarter
55: FUTURE MACHINES
with Bella Li
54: NO THEME V
with F Wright and O Sakr
53.0: THE END
with P Brown
52.0: TOIL
with C Jenkins
51.1: UMAMI
with L Davies and Lifted Brow
51.0: TRANSTASMAN
with B Cassidy
50.0: NO THEME IV
with J Tranter
49.1: A BRITISH / IRISH
with M Hall and S Seita
49.0: OBSOLETE
with T Ryan
48.1: CANADA
with K MacCarter and S Rhodes
48.0: CONSTRAINT
with C Wakeling
47.0: COLLABORATION
with L Armand and H Lambert
46.1: MELBOURNE
with M Farrell
46.0: NO THEME III
with F Plunkett
45.0: SILENCE
with J Owen
44.0: GONDWANALAND
with D Motion
43.1: PUMPKIN
with K MacCarter
43.0: MASQUE
with A Vickery
42.0: NO THEME II
with G Ryan
41.1: RATBAGGERY
with D Hose
41.0: TRANSPACIFIC
with J Rowe and M Nardone
40.1: INDONESIA
with K MacCarter
40.0: INTERLOCUTOR
with L Hart
39.1: GIBBERBIRD
with S Gory
39.0: JACKPOT!
with S Wagan Watson
38.0: SYDNEY
with A Lorange
37.1: NEBRASKA
with S Whalen
37.0: NO THEME!
with A Wearne
36.0: ELECTRONICA
with J Jones