TRISTAN und ISOLDE are the MOST EROTIC COUPLE in OPERA'S HISTORY so i have been TOLDE [a new goal] [to be carried like an opera on my back through the later-night clubs in search! but which? to call? to lurch home with? a new goal] [a slippery fish] join me! come touch me like the edge of a boat come rip at me with your teeth in a hotel room, comrade come raid me while i sit alone, touch me without coming into the room. room me without coming. tristan, und i-saw you und that was e-nough. isolde, und boy do you walk hot. these things we rip at with our teeth — skinned runes — [picture them raised? razed] ruined by hunger thin skinny jeans ruined by plunder teeth in every layer of skin sin-ny teeth rune-d by each other one chipped at by another one is chipped at, every now and-other THESE TEETH ripped at only with our skulls (only you all know what i mean — seeing porn for the pearly whites) TRISTAN shouted ISOLDE — broken chords coals under-feet!! — like broken teeth choosing to meet at a t sound, an r sound, the sound of an audience holding their hounds back by the scruff of a raised neck these things we rip out with our teeth — oh NO it's ruined things that rip us with our teeth — oh these skulls we teethe at are our skulls, these tristans & i-solds, i-DID i-TOLD her not to GO THERE and all this most erotic shit i-HOLD-it too dear too, dear
By Tim Jurney