
/ Soldiers, helmets cocked down, legs spread, trampling, muscles
drawn back, over new-born babes swaddled in scarlet, violet shawls
: babies falling from arms of women huddled on floors of G.M.C.
trucks ; driver's free hand pushing back goat thrown forward into cab
; / Ferkous pass, RIMA platoon crossing over track ; soldiers jumping
out of trucks ; RIMA squad lying down on gravel, heads pressed
against flint-pitted, thorn-studded tires, stripping off shirts in
shadow of mudguards ; women rocking babies against breasts ;
rocking movement stirring up scents sharpened with bonfire-sweat
impregnating rags, hair, flesh : oil, cloves, henna, butter, indigo,
black antimony — in Ferkous valley, below breakwater heaped with
charred cedars, barley, wheat, bee-hives, tombstones, drinks-stand,
school, gaddous, fig-trees, mechtas, stone walls oozing spattered
with brains, orchards blooming, palm-trees, swollen in fire, exploding
: flowers, pollen, buds, grasses, paper, rags spotted with milk, with
shit, with blood, fruit-peel, feathers, lifted, shaken, tossed from
flame to flame in wind pulling up fire, from earth ; slumping soldiers
straightening up, sniffing tarpaulin flaps, pressing tear-stained
cheeks onto burning rails, rubbing members against dusty tires ;
sucking in cheeks, drooling over painted wood ; truck-squad, down
in dry river bed, cutting rhododendrons, milk from stalks mixing on
knife-blades with blood of youths disembowelled in onyx-quarry
against central vein ; soldiers cutting back, pulling up saplings,
digging out roots with studded boots ; others kicking, swinging
lopsided : camel-dung, grenades, eagle-carrion ; RIMA squad
clambering into trucks, falling onto women, guns at sides, hardened
members spurring violet rags clasped between women's thighs ; %2
soldier, chest crushing baby sucking at breast, parting woman's hair
pushed over eyes, stroking forehead with fingers covered in
powdered onyx ; orgasm spurting saliva from mouth, dowsing baby's
buttered scalp ; retracted member resting softening on shawls
soaking up dye ; wind shaking trucks, sand whipping against axles,
sheet-metal ; / soldiers clambering into trucks : RIMA squad, leaning
against tarpaulin pressed down on necks by driving rain, buttoning
up ; eyes shining in darkening shadows, fingers glimmering on belt-
buckles ; goats, sweat of pursuit around bonfires soaking coats,
crouching down, licking rags tied around thighs of women ; silent
youth wrapped in sackcloth, propped back against driver's seat,
pissing into blue enamel mug held in mutilated hand : driver, leaning
back, stroking youth's forehead marked with blue cross ; youth
kissing palm, wrist rippled with veins, swelling with alcoholic blood ;
half-track caterpillars grinding stones thrown onto track by wind ;
soldiers dozing ; dye-stained members curled against thighs,
dripping drops of jissom ; driver of truck crowded with males,
animals, bundles, spitting black saliva, wasp-sting swelling cheek,
swollen half-closing eye, pockets crammed with black grapes :
tanned head of old man, reddening under white hairs, shaking
against sheet-metal, under gear-stick : with hobnail boots, driver,
black saliva drying on chin, crushing, pulling immaculate locks from
occiput, against metal beaten, from below, by cracked stones kicked
back ; / at camp, soldier : « dogs! wash out my trucks » ; / females
hanging out babies’ rags on bushes ; / males setting up tents beside
tubbish ditch : sludge of rotting meat, vomit, glimmering, rosy, under
lifeless reeds bending ; soldiers pushing back, with butts of rifles,
women laying babies down in tents ; kicking, punching haunches of
males bent over unrolled tarpaulins ; RIMA squad pushing into den
hollowed out under platform of camp in onyx vein ; faces heated,
arms, legs swinging, bottles thrown against walls : glass splinters
falling back into darkened circle pricking, sticking to hardened
members shaken out of dungarees ; beer, wine — cut with bromide

2 Pierre Guyotat
— splashing over shoulders, bare breasts of waiter ; RIMA squad
rolling, vomiting in corners ; waiter, greasy shorts slipping down
loins, barefoot, tattooed, on ankle, with woman's breast, trampling
on floor-cloth ; edging around counter, pushing cloth alongside lips
of vomiting soldiers ; / two males tying up animals behind tents ;
children, arses caked with crusts of dung, sitting on grass eroded by
salt, panting, foreheads covered with dust, heads leaning lifeless on
shoulders, eyes, violet-hued, watching erection of tents ; soldier with
curly brown hair, mouth crammed with black meat swelling pock-
marked cheeks, squatting down, soiled member bouncing inside
pants, beside small girl, stroking neck, hand moving down under rags
covering throat, groping around breasts, under armpits : girl’s eyes
closing, head touching soldier's wrist smeared with grape-juice ; grey
drool of hunger running from girl's mouth onto cheek, wetting
soldier's fist ; / gust of wind lifting up, over mounds of excrement,
pages of comics torn out by hands of soldiers crouched over ditches,
forcing out tense, burning shit after forays of rape : papers Sticking
to fronds of date-palms, stench of defecated grape-juice washing
over lieutenant's zerriba : lieutenant, crouching, naked, in tub of
lukewarm water streaked with rays filtered through lattice, whistling,
medallion balanced on tip of tongue, neck-chain held on mounds of
swollen cheeks, purplish glans touching grape-tinted foam, farts
bubbling at sides of bronze tub, forcing rhythm of whistling ; /
soldiers — on mainland : dance-hall bouncers —, in fading light,
prowling around tents, untying thongs, crawling on sand, tent-flaps
tubbing over backs riddled with scabies ; males, females, nerves
phosphorescent, huddling together around candles, youths, ears
buried, chewing raw semolina straight from sacks ; children pulling
aside, with pinched lips, clenched teeth, rags covering, containing
breasts of women, licking half-chewed flour from lips of youths ;
soldiers, tugging at girls’ naked legs ; father grabbing candle ; curly-
haired soldier, rolling black meat in vermilion mouth, unsheathing
dagger : soldier's hand, quick, covering vulva buried under scarlet
fags, grabbing, pinching ; soldier pulling thigh, drawing sleeping girl

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closer : girl sliding over sand towards tent-flaps ; two soldiers, one
scalped on temple by eagle's beak after rape over crowded nest,
other sweating gall, dungarees rolled up over shins flecked with salt,
holding down, tying up father throwing lighted candle at soldiers’
hair ; curly-haired soldier gathering girl in arms : girl sleeping,
purring, hand spread open over forehead, rocked in rhythmic trot ;
veiled moon casting greenish glow over bared thighs ; ichneumons,
sbots, sphex hovering over soldier's member : soldier stepping over
kitchen cesspool ; soldier sprinting over soiled straw, alongside
kennel ; panting, gurgling — prelude to rape —, sweat oozing on
bare chest, waking girl : girl gazing, into soldier's mouth panting
open, at threads of meat caught in canines, lumps held back in
cheeks ; soldier standing girl up, squashed against wire fence of
kennel, squeezing, kissing mouth, cavities of ears susurrating with
bloody cerumen ; soldier's hand unbuttoning dungarees, pulling out
member ; girl sucking up meat held back in soldier's cheeks,
chewing, eyes closed, hands spread out on fence ; soldier, aroused
by movement of muscles from cheek to belly, bare-headed, straw-
dust disturbed rising around legs, injecting girl with clear, hot jissom
; dogs, woken by wire fence creaking, springing from kennels, chains
gleaming, dragging in excrement ; soldier nibbling at girl's gums,
teeth pulling at threads of meat, girl's teeth covered, defended by
tongue ; dogs howling, chains ringing on tarmac, paws grinding into
hardened excrement ; soldier's knees gripping small waist : second
orgasm dowsing girl's shoulders ; girl keeping hands clasped against
soldier's sweaty loins ; fence collapsing ; soldier folding, covering
girl’s body ; nails scraping earth ; soldier's breath against girl's
cheek sucking in, blowing out straw-dust ; girl shifting belly under
grinding muscles of abdomen ; blinding — nails, spit — soldier's
eyes ; soldier's secreting balls lying, cooling, on girl's thigh ; below
palm-trees, RIMA squad dragging woman pulled unconscious from
tent : blond soldier, forehead glowering, tears bathing eye-sockets
glazed with charcoal, urine blocking jissom in glans, squeezing
woman held in arms ; « screw good ; fuck hard ; watch out for brass

4 Pierre Guyotat
», hands, lips, stroking, licking woman's contorted face thrown back
over blond soldier's arm — oil-smudged, wine-stained ; / small girl,
covered, coated with straw-dust — except on lips, vulva blocked
strangulating soldier's member — whining, sniffing back bloody
mucus into nasal cavities ; // woman's head hitting scarified trunk :
initials, school-sums, hearts pierced with arrows, of sterile palm-tree
+ soldiers, unbuttoned, sugared fists squeezing swollen members,
jostling between woman's legs held apart by two fellows, tension of
plexus discharged, members drooping against thighs, hugged by
camouflage-dungarees ; / inside tent, soldiers sitting on father's
stomach, arms, chest, rubbing blackened hair with palm of hands,
farting : candle, stuck into mouth of male swooning, hissing between
cracked lips ; / watchtower overlooking charred palm-grove ; Peuhl
sentry, yellow iris sliding into bluish eyeball, sweat soaking frizzy
hair, turning spotlight : beam beating onto sweating flesh of soldiers
arched over woman ; sentry grinding member in fist, turning spotlight
: beam crossing dried river bed, catching vibration, bathed by zephyr,
of dusty rhododendrons : pack of jackals tearing at donkey-carcass
filled with putrid liquid — flanks swinging swollen ; sentry spinning
Projector on chassis, beam burning into nipples palpitating
pubescent, sprinkled with sugar under drill of dungarees encrusted
with dirt : sweat oozing through tangled tufts ; sentry's throat, beam
melting blood, pus, in razor-cuts ; member forcing starched crotch,
pushing out of pants, spreading, arched, under tight cloth ; sentry,
fist spinning projector towards stratosphere, moaning, yawning,
tubbing thighs, seam of dungarees cutting into buttocks, against
sheet-metal casing chassis ; soldiers drawing back from woman
wrapped around tree-trunk ; ants, mosquitos gathering seed, jissom
forced back out around exposed vulva, rag — orange flowers, on
violet — sticking to groin ; soldiers walking, thighs opened, heels
lightened, saliva drying on chins ; tucking away members, buckling
belts, wiping gnarled hands at sides, fingers coated with antimony
from woman's hair ; farting ; leaning back against ladder of
watchtower, feet nestling in urine-sodden sand, lighting cigarettes

Eden Eden Eden 5
taken from pockets sticky with jissom, shifting haunches : glans,
detached from cotton inside pants, discharging last drops of jissom
; farts rippling from sweating arses ; sentry squatting, arse hairs
caked with faeces pulling apart, buttocks spreading, pressing nostrils
over holes in floor ; scent of jissom wafting up from soldiers’ open
shirts, mixed with whiffs of toasted tobacco rising from lips, from
fingers smeared with seed ; at changing of guard, sentry running
from tower, hardened glans pinched in elastic of pants, towards
palm-grove behind barbed wire, dragging woman, pulling feet,
beyond tree, into salt-marsh slick, lying over body — breathing
stopped — spreading bruised lips of vulva, pushing in member
retracting on contact with cooling flesh, kissing woman's shriveled
lips, eyes, soldiers’ saliva, spat over iris, drying ; woman's vulva
closing around member, squeezing, crushing ; Peuhl, cold sweat
cozing from pores, coating hairs, standing up, pulling fingers out of
woman's wilted locks — sweat drying in tufts, lice, fleas jumping out
; flies, ichneumons diving in, heavy with black powder from charred
fringes of male palms, digging down to greenish skin of scalp —,
carrying fingers to member, squeezing base, pulling at hairs caught
in vulva ; secreting balls clasped in free hand, white sweat seeping :
mosquitos, ants stuck in foam, between sentry's fingers ; breathing,
sentry choked by salty stench ; standing up, lifting woman's hips
against belly, stepping forward, legs spread, staggering, weight of
woman pulling down on member, stretching skin over vertebrae of
sentry's neck, over atlas, axis, sternum ; on platform of dry sand, at
edge of palm grove, sentry stopping : flies, mosquitos crawling
under cap, in knot of hair on occiput ; woman's legs stiffening,
beating against sentry's shins ; sentry kneeling, sprawling, woman's
legs unfolded, varicose veins shrivelling against sand, panting over
cold belly, groin muscles, tissues of member straining ; fist striking
around vulva, fingers pulling on lips, digging, under folds, into
stiffened muscles ; Peuhl unsheathing dagger at hips, tracing with
point of blade — bent : youths gutted against onyx wall — semi-
circle around vulva, plunging blade into mute flesh, tearing,

6 Pierre Guyotat
stripping, slicing muscles, nerves running from vulva into flaccid
sheath covering strangulated member ; member hardened on contact
with disturbed muscles, springing out, capped with bloody flesh ;
Peuhl gathering, stroking, wiping member on flap of sweaty shirt ;
standing up, leaning back against trunk, picking up rifle from salty
platform — sand, crackling, flying up into face —, coming back to
woman, rifle-butt striking face, breasts, — member recoiling red,
bruised, deformed, against sentry’s thigh ; crouching, head turned
back, seizing woman under reddened armpits : sweaty hand slipping
on cold flesh ; legs spattered with blood from mangled vulva
dragging on debris of bones ; Peuhl kicking dislocated corpse into
hole dug under barbed wire by jackals, onto bed of carrion,
excrement ejected in scramble for spoils ; sphex, sbots, blown up in
draught, assailing — antennae, stings buzzing — penis, eyes, nose,
lips ; Peuhl burying head in shirt, stung by wasp beneath right
nipple, dung-fly drinking seed caught in hollow of exposed navel :
brisk movement of torso squashing fly in sweat between two folds of
flesh ; buzzing, discharging into sweat, climbing up along fold of
flesh toward hip ; Peuhl running, member smarting, hands open
outstretched ; at first-aid post, two bare-chested soldiers groaning,
retching, cheek to cheek ; sprawled under sink, shins bathed pink
slapping in vomit, forelocks trailing in gluey mash reeking of wine ;
cadet, squatting, needle jabbing soldiers’ bared buttocks : two
orderlies holding soldiers down on tiles ; Peuhl sitting on bench,
head thrown back onto shoulder, shaking, skin mottled, teeth
chattering ; penis, blood drying, protruding from fly ; nipple swelling
+ cadet, member sprouting, pushing at fly stained with iodine,
Standing up, eyes dazzled, level with rounded swelling of cheeks,
fixed on fold, stretched by erection, forming beneath belt-buckle ;
two orderlies lifting up, carrying soldiers to stretchers arranged
Outside, beside wall of hut, on trestles ; Peuhl stung on breast,
whining, bloody saliva drooling from dried lips, two threads dripping
Onto chin ; cadet tearing off Peuhl's shirt, shirt thrown down at feet
+ handkerchief in hand, thumb stroking, forcing Peuhl’s lips, teeth :

Eden Eden Eden 7
cadet's member stirring in pants ... « ... farting herdsman, dozing,
loins stiffened from thrusting, pumping.. slender, running through
drinn.. pimply mouth.., hot bath, insecticide, tooth-comb never
drawing out perfume of wool, of milk.. paste, potash, gonacrine on
your lips, taste of venom sucked.. no encrusted dung of buggery on
glans hardened by quivering tension of loins, bitter sweat of beasts
squatting in salt... ».. : Peuhl kissing cadet's fingernails through
muslin, nostrils detecting crease, whiff of dried jissom ; cadet
dropping handkerchief, stroking Peuhl’s bare shoulder, gathering,
rolling member in palm of hand, groping inside pants, pulling,
pressing testicles against folds of cloth ; Peuhl, flanks strained
stiffening, spreading thighs ; standing up, pressing thighs against
sink, surrendering, into fingers of cadet, hardened member :
squeezed against porcelain, plunged purplish into bowl of
oxygenated water ; Peuhl stepping outside hut : nest of larks hissing,
hooked under palm-awning ; stroking nest, larks springing up,
shitting over wrist ; squatting down, stretching out on straw kept for
tortured prisoners, dozing, buttocks pulled apart by stiffened seam
of dungarees ; lips, wet with spittle expelled by pulsating cheeks —
knees, hams, forehead trembling —. touching blood-spots on
pillow... « ...drinking rebel's blood, drinking against tortured lips.
tortured shins, holding blood in mouth, running through fields of
blackcurrants blazing, flooded with venom, wrist chafed by sickle-
charm tied to chain, running to meadow with fishes leaping, outside
slave-camp ; over hill, spitting blood into onyx basin ; other slaves,
scalps caked with dung, forehead to forehead, spitting other blood :
golden, blue, black ; wind spraying blood over exposed loins, clouds
of excrement shadowing top of hill : under overhanging rock.
soldiers blowing onto bonfire of branches built around mouth of
dead woman, blowing in measured breaths, squatting, tall twisted
locks sweeping over woman's breasts ; chest rubbing on fleece over
vulva, skylark caught in tangled hairs ; lark singing, chest pressing
against body of woman, tears springing from eyes ; hot blood
trickling from ears ; excremental rain splashing over rock ; blood, in

8 Pierre Guyotat
basin, burning, boiling ; young rebel, bare feet daubed with onyx
powder, lips with flour, rising from earth, leaning over basin,
immersed head, fists ; raising head dripping with blood, hurling
raucous cry towards hills, bushes moving : lions springing out ; lions
lying at rebel's feet, licking behind knees ; young rebel, scooping
blood mixed with excrement in cupped hands, showering lions’
manes ; around camp, women slumping against fences, soldiers’
members straining towards mothers, brought from mainland, for
Slave-Feast ; carrying Mother into bamboo hut, laying down on bed
of poisoned straw : head, shoulders buried beneath Mother's dress,
eating fruits, antelope fritters over hardened vulva : Mother sleeping.
tired by journey in cargo hold, tipper-trucks ; escaping at dawn,
slipping from under my body ; caught by soldiers under tower — me
watching, ejaculating — pushed back onto sand by goading knees,
wasp hovering at right breast, over lips of soldiers sucking at teat...
».; / pressed against kennel fencing, soldier rolling, covering girl ;
cadet squatting down, lifting up soldier, gripping loins : member
slipping out, soldier standing up, running off ; cadet blowing off
straw gathered on small contracted body, lifting girl up in arms ; body
dilating under breath, vapours, juices of cadet — hugging girl,
chewing ration-biscuit, girl kissing cadet's lips, tongue collecting
crumbs stuck along gums ; cadet laying girl on bed in sick-bay,
bathing mangled vulva ; feverish, cheek bloated with vomit, stepping
back outside, switching on lights over latrines — soldiers working on
group of women —., lifting up fainting soldiers, stroking forehead of
women sprawled on ground, separating native mercenaries coupling,
pulling apart couples stuck firm by compression of plexus :
returning, washing under running water : hands, arms, neck,
Smeared with jissom, with seed ; cadet, vomit expelled, carrying out
girl swaddled in surgical smock, opening tents, in turn, tipping girl's
face back into candlelight ; opening tent with two soldiers holding
male, filled with sand heated through by movement of limbs
clutching, sweating, radiance of muscular contractions ; cadet
shoving soldiers aside — standing, penis retracting beneath cotton

Eden Eden Eden 9
—, placing girl at feet of female, lighting candle taken from mouth
of male, pushing unbuttoned soldiers towards opening of tent — at
corners of lips of female, drop of jissom shimmering ; /// in bunk-
rooms, bamboo waving in dawn wind, insomniac soldiers, naked,
sitting cross-legged on bedding, picking at stained members ;
suspect youth, caught reading shit-smeared cowboy comic in front of
tent, thrown bare-chested into command-post : cheek, chest, belly
marked by hand-prints, in blood ; sergeant capping suspect's blood-
stained head with empty coffee-pan ; sugar sticking to hair, mixing
with blood, filling ears ; soldier on fatigue-duty, frayed dungarees
stretched over arched buttocks, bringing back bludgeon, smeared
with excrement, from toilet ; hitting shoulder of suspect : three
blows, jaw : seven, with end of stick coated with creosote, pressing
stick into suspect's fist ; driver taking spanner, crank, from truck ;
spanner forcing open suspect's clenched jaw, driver unbuttoning
dungarees, pissing between torn lips, pulling up suspect with three
spanner strokes at throat, pushing crank through tear in dungarees,
between buttocks ; other soldiers aroused, rising from mattresses,
grasping, turning crank in suspect's arse ; suspect, head falling back,
wet with spittle, onto shoulder, crown touching tormentor's swollen
crotch, lips spitting back excremental saliva, clenching teeth onto
spanner ; tip of crank forced into loins ; pulled out, bloody, by driver,
thrown outside command-post, wiped clean on sandbags around
perimeter ; suspect youth swooning, collapsing on mattress,
unbuttoned by soldiers — spitting, farting ; with barrel of rifle,
soldiers lifting up, pressing penis back onto belly : sergeant's
studded boot squashing flesh ; red-haired soldier, hollow eyes, glans
sprouting — caught violet between two gaping buttons —,, leaning
over, grabbing, tying testicles of suspect in soiled rag pulled from
under bedding ; fingers stroking small neck formed at root of
compressed member, junction of knotted membranes ; // suspect
revived in empty guard-room, cadet kneeling, untying rag ; sentry,
mouth rosy in dawn fire, walking on terrace, legs bowed, fist buried
inside pants ; leaning back against palm-trunk propped up by

10 Pierre Guyotat
brownstone balustrade around terrace ; stiffening legs, pulling out
member ; rifle, loaders, clicking at loins, masturbating, helmet
pushed back over neck, jugular vein outlined in creases of throat,
tongue protruding from mouth ; two children squatting, defecating
against barbed wire ; soldier levelling projector-beam towards point
on horizon — dawn fire looming ; woman from tents, breasts
swinging in patched silk, flowery silk sticking at pubis, haunches
slumped against barbed wire, fingers scraping shit between
children's buttocks, wiping fingers in sand ; red fist on white arm,
slipping between wire-mesh, touching sliver of ration-bread poking
from sand, intact ; soldier's rifle slipping from shoulder, barrel
knocking against projector chassis ; one breast springing out of silk
; member forcing soldier's fingers ; thumb of other hand, loosened
by accelerating movement of masturbation shaking, contracting
shoulder, milking-arm, jerking, touching trigger ; woman, throat
tiddled with bullets, collapsing, head, hair fading dead, rolling onto
shit-smeared wires ; jissom spurting, splashing boots, sheet-metal ;
between breasts, fresh blood bubbling in globular clot ; soldier
linking index-finger to trigger-thumb, squeezing member at root,
pressing jissom up towards violaceous glans, catching drops in
fingers : tepid, carried to lips ; children, faces, bellies, swollen
behind tears, heads muffled in heated rags, pressed against pubic
curls, sleeping, sobbing, thin bodies shaking, waking, crying —
entrails cooling, // Wazzag, wiping mouth smeared with egg, mint,
jissom, pulling damp leg from under whore-master's belly : master
asleep at right side of whore ; sheet clinging to loins, Wazzag rising
from bed ; naked, going down stairs ; ear-rings tinkling : lowering
forehead — powdered jissom held in wrinkles — under lintel closing
off counter ; red-haired boy lying on belly in box-room among floor-
Cloths, buckets, brushes, pressing forehead, knees, against
Concrete, replenishing jissom ; goose stretched out beside boy, beak
burrowing under armpit ; Wazzag lifting up goose holding neck, hand
rubbing boy's nipple ; pulling bird out of box-room.. « just grabbing
gobbler, Khamssieh, time for lame-duck to get good goosing.. » ;

Eden Eden Eden 11
goose squawking, Khamssieh rolling over onto back ; mottled
member bouncing out between thighs, springing up erect ; tongue
lolling over lips ; clot of jissom trembling in nostril. blown onto
fingers, Khamssieh rolling onto side, burying clot between buttocks ;
jumble of rags piled against back wall, boy's fingers groping towards
drain linking box-room of boys’ brothel with tile floor of women’s :
blood mixed with jissom wetting fingers ; Wazzag throwing goose into
first latrine along passage leading to garden ; boy huddled in corner,
heavy torso squeezed into white singlet torn at nipples, rest of body
naked, right foot in bracelet : foot slipping on edge of toilet-hole, leg
held back, hands crossed under knee ; penis, uncircumcised,
dragging on soiled concrete ; Wazzag holding back goose by wings :
boy cowering in corner ; movement of long eyelashes startling
goose, beak opening ; Wazzag loosening grip, goose springing at
boy's throbbing neck ; boy, pulling up body along piping, grabbing
goose’s neck : penis hardening, brushed by spur-claw, by plumage ;
boy burying goose’s neck between thighs ; Wazzag stepping out into
garden, leverets jumping in cages, Wazzag offering penis, leverets
nibbling ; leaning back against tamarisk — trunk tied with club-foot's
cast-off clothes —, tying foliage torn from tree around arms, hands,
heel, spearing greenest sprig with violet tip of glans, hardened by
leverets’ tiny teeth ; Wazzag jumping onto terrace of women's
brothel — secreting balls, encrusted with dirt, slapping under
buttocks ; in alley, worker-youths, date-pickers, mechanics,
lubricators, quarrelling over Khamssieh leaning against door-post,
workers’ hands reaching for dark tangle planted in wide milky body
; Wazzag squatting beside trap-door : platoon of soldiers back from
South unbuttoned by girl-whores ; one soldier approaching : before
seeing head, just catching curve of member projecting from
dungarees, Wazzag : ..« Rico, my flower. » : soldier stepping onto
terrace, away from girl-whores, scratching dirt between toes with
moistened thumb, Wazzag kneeling, fresh scent of insect-seed rising
from leafy limbs, flicking dust from mop of hair dirtied in fatigue-
parties, bivouacs, soldier hugging Wazzag between two rows of

12 Pierre Guyotat
sheets hung out under reddening fire ; below. in women's brothel,
noisy soldier with shaved head, bluish at temples, diving at black girl-
whore — thrown back against pink wooden stairs, crossing heels
around soldier's ankles, over boots — : English box of love-powder,
swapped in South for handful of sugar, slipping from soldier's
pocket, whore grabbing, opening box, sniffing powder ; black whore,
loins battered, blowing white powder between soldier's honeyed
teeth ; soldier spitting back powder onto whore's lips ; soldiers
pressing fists between women's breasts, pulling back, licking sweat
soaked up under thin cloth ; whores unbuttoning, one by one,
soldiers thrown back over thighs ; soldiers’ members rising at contact
of fingers, palms, retracting under bracelets, rings ; pubic sweat
clouding coral, silver ; / shoulders hunched, Khamssieh tucking penis
between thighs ; workers, pressed against moist body of boy-whore,
caressing, slipping fingers under arched fundament, searching for
trapped penis ; Khamssieh, arms raised, crossed behind neck,
laughter exploding ; grease-smeared hand groping under buttocks ;
laughter shaking boy's shoulder touching cheek tipped sideways. «..
first round for you, darling, come dip into soup you shot up my nose
this morning ; kept my meat fresh for you.. » ; lubricator, holding
rump of whore with one hand, other unbuttoning overalls, member
springing out, catching polished membrane of Khamssieh’s secreting
balls, pushed back towards arse by pressure of thighs over penis :
member quivering, hardening, pubic hairs opening out ; Khamssieh
kissing mouth of black child hanging onto shoulders of date-picker,
lips smacking ; kissing cheeks, scarified throat, chest heaving under
half-open jacket ; child's hand holding pomegranate : trace of oil
gleaming mauve suspended in woolly hair ; Khamssieh sliding hand
under date-picker's armpit, groping at child's thigh, hand enveloping
member, secreting balls, through tight denim ; saliva filling child's
mouth ; Khamssieh kissing child, child pushing saliva between teeth
of whore : lubricator, flaps of unbuttoned denim jacket covering,
brushing over Khamssieh's hips in movement of erection, buggering
Khamssieh, sweaty chest sticking to boy's back / ; flight of sand-

Eden Eden Eden 13
larks swooping into alley, dancing over flock of sheep marked on
forehead, ochre, red ; shepherds, poxy, resting — animals shitting
—, slow watery gaze fixed on bars of women's brothel : free whores
smiling at shepherds, foam shining on swollen lips, uncovering
breasts ; shepherds’ fists slipping between bars ; members stirring
between thighs, rags pulling apart ; bottom of stairs, black whore,
lips smeared with love-powder moistened on lips of soldier, dragging
— holding feet — soldier unbuttoned, penis erect, to threshold of
saloon ; jissom, spread over testicles squashed under soldier's
buttocks, glistening in cracks of tiling, whore pulling soldier over
floor ; two soldiers, standing, naked, on one side, other side, of belly
of girl-whore stretched out at feet, throwing mixed threads of jissom
onto pubic fleece, each soldier grabbing other's throat with sticky
fingers, spitting in other's eyes ; members heating, opening out ;
soldiers’ thighs pushing forward, bristling hairs mingling, two
members standing together, held in bundle ; chins covered with
foam, each gnawing at other's teeth, pulling closer, hands of one
joined pressing, lifting buttocks of other ; lips stuck together, nostrils
sniffing up foam spreading back over jaws ; each stroking other
under penis.. « ..fucking dick... », grabbing testicles ; pubic fleece
tangling together ; girl-whore standing up, pulling soldiers apart,
soldiers squeezing whore, moving across, hurried, in small steps, to
wall ; orgasm : jissom pushed from vulva, from arse, gluing bristly
hairs onto soldiers’ thighs ; girl-whore, shaved head marked with
scabies, whispering, pressed against bars ; shepherds stroking bare
breasts squashed against dusty grid, pulling nipples between bars ;
lifting rags, uncovering, shaking pock-marked members, clacking
infected tongues ; whore moving lips, two fingers making gesture of
masturbation ; mouth : lips, teeth, jaw, movement of sucking ;
shepherds pulling small eggs from under rags, whore closing
wooden shutter behind grid ; head-shepherd, blowing into flute —
rising urges throbbing in throat, breath shaking in pipe —, leading
flock towards outer ring-road ; rear shepherds unhooking fingers
from grid, picking up sticks, striking, tucking members into rags,

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shaking secreting balls assailed by flies ; top of street, old men,
children, sleeping on steps of slaughterhouse strewn with skins, with
bloody fleece ; black girl-whore pulling soldier with bluish temples up
to foot of cradle ; soldier, hardened member swinging in half-light,
licking pink wooden wheel of cradle ; whore squatting down,
stretching out over moaning soldier, beating member alongside half-
open vagina ; jissom overflowing ; whore squashing soldier's
softening penis into sticky mass of balls, membranes, curly hairs,
kneading, pressing down, pulling back, pushing penis up towards
belly : soldier nodding asleep under heavy throbbing of veins
shining on prismatic scalp ; flock crossing through souk set up beside
ting-road ; slim, laughing, naked under light robes, high blue hair
sprouting from veils braided behind necks, nomads unrolling pieces
of yellow oilskin cut from insulation of underground pipes beneath
nuclear station — sold as tent-sheets, to negroes ; sheep trampling
over oilskins ; nomad youth, standing up — ear-rings shaken,
tinkling, glimmering —, leaping in front of head-shepherd, member
spurring, wetting blue robe ; two boys kissing on mouth ; breath of
nomad washing over shepherd's ear : .. « .. akli.. my lamb.. come
suck.. » ; shepherd, kneeling, kissing nomad's navel, sliding flute
under string tied around knee ; rear shepherds moving to front of
flock ; nomad pushing milk-brother through covered market, into
back-room of barber-dentist ; sitting down in shaky revolving chair,
spreading long legs under stretched robe ; shepherd kneeling in
floor strewn with teeth, locks of hair, rolling up nomad's robe ;
Peasant youth, mouth spurting blood, crying out : bloody turban
wrapping youth's red hair, one tuft, beaded with sweat, sticking out
of cloth over skull, bushy, flaxen, caked with scabs — from pubis,
armpit ; thighs of youth, hugged in jeans, twitching ; white seam of
fly bulging at crotch ; pubic sweat seeping through denim,
dampening leatherette cushion on chair ; peasant youth's dilated
hostrils drawing in, blowing out blood mixed with enamel dust ;
shepherd squeezing nomad's thin thighs : scent of camel-dung rising
from penis lifted up in shepherd's chapped hand ; shepherd placing

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lips on dry pubic fleece : line of sweat glistening along fold of thigh,
shepherd grabbing encrusted balls in one hand, other masturbating
short member — tiny veins, stretched by erection, simmering
against cheek ; nomad tensing legs ; jissom spurting, shepherd
rolling back tongue into throat ; jissom, heavy, fresh, filling mouth ;
clots chewed between teeth — decayed by excess of oil, of carrion
; nomad tensing legs, sand held in hairs running down hardened
calves ; second orgasm hollowing belly, narrow bust, relaxing
muscles of legs ; shepherd's fingers pressing cheeks filled with
thinner, warmer jissom ; nomad, fingers spread, pushing away head
of shepherd diving back between thighs ; standing up, pushing aside
shepherd still kneeling — head bent down, eyes fixed on ground,
lips closed over jissom caught between teeth ; nomad, with tip of
naked foot, pulling at rags held between shepherd's buttocks ;
shepherd standing, pulling up soiled rags — detached from caked
excrement — over hips, spreading legs, buttocks held open with
both hands ; arching top of body, jamming head against burst bundle
of rotting linen ; nomad's hands crossed under shepherd's belly,
shepherd's palms, fingers, rubbing nomad’s thighs, nomad pressing
member into shepherd's arse, shit-caked — rags torn back revealing
fresher layer of excrement — hairy ; top of shepherd's body
bending, weighed down — shepherd inverted, dizzy, relaxing
pressure of hands, buttocks gripping tighter onto nomad’s member
— ; nomad holding back body articulated around base of member,
crossed fingers squeezing shepherd's belly ; orgasm spent, bending
torso over shepherd's back, saliva running from lips into shepherd's
ear : « .. my lamb, one thousand dinars your price, naked ... my father
dead in Tamesna.., ..purple body buried in sack of salt.. » ; / flock
stopping at edge of cliff ; mist rising from swelling wadi, covering
negro village ; sheep butting naked babies propped against trellis-
fences, wallowing in fech-fech ; children, tickled by rubbing of wool,
lying under bellies of sheep ; elbows pressing down. puffing out
stomachs, rubbing against animals’ nipples ; shepherds squatting at
bottom of ravine opening into roaring wadi, masturbating, changing

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position on pebbles — contraction of nerves, muscles, bringing
kneecaps near breaking ; female sheep lifting penis of child leaning
back against rusty metal urinal — dragged from town centre during
night of riots, by youths with knobbled skulls —, licking fresh
excrement splattered over child's buttocks ; returning to lamb, licking
under tail ; turning back, burying muzzle between legs of child, child
spreading thighs, caressing cold eyes of ewe ; in communal gardens,
women scything barley, wheat ; wrists, arms marked with scabs, violet
scars : viper-bites, sickle-cuts, djerid-wounds ; child, wearing blue-
spangled dress, hanging onto mother's robes ; mother lifting head,
forehead catching clear beam of reddening fire filtered through
palm-trees ; dazzled, bending back down, throwing scythe aside, into
uncut clump ; hook catching child hidden in clump ; through torn
cloth, line of blood forming across swollen belly from right hip to left
groin ; girl falling onto bed of wheat, forehead, lips fading white,
scythe stuck into flesh ; in village, children tormenting live toads —
shitting in hands — caught in pink sand-marsh ; impaling toads,
swollen, on trellis-fences : impaled through ribs, falling, flesh giving
way, down along spikes of trellis in gardens — children, drowsy, laid
down, enclosed, in gardens until nightfall with lambs, kids : woken on
contact with cool of sand, falling back, rocked asleep by bells of
lambs, kids lapping tepid brackish water of irrigation ditches, hidden
beneath barley ; shepherds, shivering, standing up ; rags trailing in
jissom, sticking to thighs ; globules glimmering on black shingle ;
shepherds mounting favoured sheep ; wiping, on fleece, articulation
of thighs, edge of arse, covered in sweat from movement of
masturbation ; touching embalmed wool, members, softened,
hardening, burrowing, gleaming violet, into dirty fleece ; women,
gathered around wounded girl, heads turning back ; shepherds,
testicles squashed under buttocks against protruding bones of
sheep, bare feet stuck into warm sand, tongues lolling over chins,
Panting, yelping ; rutting dogs rolling in wheat, snapping at dresses
of women ; rolling in sand, snapping at members of shepherds ;
Tusset dog licking girl's wound, running towards shepherds, rubbing

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against leg of shepherd with biggest member, pushing burning
tongue between thighs ; tongue wrapping member ; dog's breath
bathing shepherd's belly, foam running down thigh ; shepherd,
stiffening legs against flanks of sheep — dog surprised by muscles
cracking, jumping aside : shepherd's lips puckered, moist with foam,
arse-hairs rippled by light fart, animal returning, tongue catching
member —, heaving, fingers hooked around ears of sheep ; jissom
spurting : held by dog on tongue curled back, carried into clump of
wheat, laid at women’s feet ; / in saloon, baby, lifted out of cradle,
crawling along trace of jissom trailing between legs of soldier with
bluish temples, trapped under thigh of black girl-whore : flap of blue
woollen rompers dragging in clear jissom ; young whore sitting
cross-legged on tiles, taking baby into lap : combing, with small blue
nylon brush, pubic fleece of blond soldier marked on groin with
beauty-spot ; soldier's back rippling spotted with green paint,
transferred onto skin — soldier masturbated first by whore-mistress,
body stiffened against green wall of orgy-room moistened with
sweat, pressing back at shoulders, buttocks, calves, neck bending,
head congested purple ; soldier standing, hand on shoulder of
whore, dungarees around ankles, nipples smeared with honey under
gaping shirt, eyes held veiled in measured beating of masturbation,
fixed on bundle of machine-guns propped up in corner beside drain
— through hole, muted murmur from boys’ brothel —, sighing :
brush pulling, disentangling knots of curly hair ; fist of whore
gripping reddened member sticking to fingers, scattering quick
kisses over soldier's belly : knots of hair torn out — follicles rotting
in polluted cuticle, — caught by whore in powder-box at feet ; lifting
baby towards soldier, baby's lips touching violaceous tip of penis,
soldier's forehead glowering purple ; below stairs — framework
Pegged to box-room wall, packed with stocks of jam, eggs —, two
soldiers — girl-whore squeezed against wall, abandoned —
Squatting down, lifting cellophane, sucking up jam from one jar ;
tongues touching in jelly.. : «.. Khamssieh, tongue never fit in jar... » ;
boy's raucous laugh resounding along partition, broken by smack of

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wet dishcloth on bare flesh.. « .. silence, arsehole, making me
droop!» ; blond soldier drawing head of girl-whore towards crotch,
picking up brush, combing thin hair on temples, eyebrows sticky with
fresh jissom ; right arm of whore, — left holding member —,
hugging soldier's loins ; fingers plunging between buttocks ;
soldier's member hardening, forcing whore's fist, loosening grip ;
hand of whore kneading soldier's buttock, fingers palpating
membrane of arse, nails scraping layer of excrement ... « embers
fading under half-cooked joint, black blood spurting deep in throat...
cutting tail of gutted jackal, pressing tail between my buttocks,
squatting on rock, ears pricking up in salty wind, rain lashing lips
closing over squirting blood .. Rico cutting into animal's muzzle,
hollowing, emptying with dagger, burying head inside, kneeling in
mud... walking towards rock, outcrops of flint catching my member,
Rico pushing, between my spreading buttocks, jackal’s bloody
muzzle.. pulling mask up against my loins, working lips against my
arse.. black colic churning in my belly.. ejected, filling mouth.. Rico
standing up, spitting out excremental stew.. crouching back down,
browsing on sodden moss, chewing, staring, me squatting, legs
stiffened, rain lashing tensed muscles, pumping member softened by
fain — at tangled brown hair of my dripping groin.. Rico standing,
leaping at my streaming body, knees knocking, Rico's hand smearing
jissom spurted onto my thigh.. kissing imprint from webbing of
hamac on back of my neck, teeth pulling downy hair of nape, greasy
curls over my ears.. knee raised between my thighs.. US shorts,
thrown down onto moss, holding, under downpour, folds fixed by
Constant tension at my crotch.. sliding along Rico's half-naked body...
my lips, pressed against moist cloth, following rising jissom in
member hugged by shorts.. jissom spurting, my tongue lapping,
pushing inside shorts, gathering drops streaked with thin blood..
Monkeys whistling in cedars : | walk with Rico, naked, in front of
febels, members erect, cheeks tipped against shoulders, eyes
Narrowed, oh rebels, your bellies are light, your cheeks, daubed with
paint...» / Peasant sitting on bank of wadi, five teeth intact chewing

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mouse-carrion ; kneeling in mud, sucking up grey water swelling
blood-spattered mouth, spitting red water back into stream, pulling
penis from jeans, soaking, rubbing member under water, pressing
torn fingers into folds of flesh... / Knamssieh, lubricator's jissom
streaming down legs, leaning back against box-room door, letting
workers spit into red hair, pull at member, grasp testicles, discharge
against sides of buttocks, slap cheeks, belly, buttocks, with soiled
hands, force dishcloths between thighs, gag mouth with soaking rags
; worker's member, dry — jissom held back surging inside —,
pushing deep between buttocks, Khamssieh relaxing arse, tilting
torso ; hips of worker battering loins of boy-whore ; chapped hand,
fingers polished on steel, grabbing, pulling erect penis from between
buttocks, squirting ; workers jostling, hands, jissom-spattered
members rubbing over curve of buttocks, throwing Khamssieh
against black child carried on shoulders of two date-pickers ; three
erect members stretching arse, workers pressing in, nipples crushed
against sweaty skin of Khamssieh’s back ; stained hands squeezing
neck ; black child springing forward ; jissom squirting from three
members bundled together, shaking Khamssieh ; legs of workers
standing at sides quivering along legs of whore ; groans rising from
lips, workers pulling out sticky members ; members, pressed
together, springing back hard ; black child struggling, puffing, spittle
oozing out along curve of panting mouth ; touching testicles of
workers pressing warm mass of porous membranes against buttocks,
Khamssieh rolling head over shoulder into hot cupped hand of
worker ; worker's hand palpating Khamssieh's earlobe ; fingers
delving into eye-socket at moment of erection ; after orgasm : hand,
moist, sliding along whore's cheek, rubbing at creases of throat,
falling back onto surface of buttocks ; phalanges of workers’ hands
— pulling out members — rolling in slimy folds of Khamssieh's
buttocks ; workers drawing back ; two date-pickers dropping black
child ; child diving at Khamssieh ; erect penis of whore pressing
against sweaty torso ; arms squeezing Khamssieh’s loins, head
pulsating, heating, buried in thighs of whore ; blue spittle sticking

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down strands of Khamssieh’s pubic hair ; child's tongue probing
between curls, touching infected cuticle ; lubricator, emerging,
buttoned up, from latrine, enveloped in cloud of excremental stench,
rubbing against Khamssieh ; flick of tongue licking whore's lids, end
of tongue holding lips half-open ; whore’s member springing back
against black child's armpit, lifting shoulder of jacket ; Khamssieh,
chest thrown forward, palpating child's buttocks, sexual cluster
squeezed inside jeans ; child squatting on heels, spreading
Khamssieh's legs, kneeling, diving between slimy legs, spinning on
knees ; laughing, short pink tongue licking soft hairs stuck down with
jissom, Khamssieh’s testicles dragging on collar of jacket, child
standing up, clinging to whore ; Khamssieh, hollowing vertebrae,
bucking coccyx, one hand, slipped under flesh of buttocks pulled up
sweating, palpating boy's belly, unbuttoning jeans, pulling out penis
over elastic of pants ; child sucking at hollow of collar-bone ; hips
shuddering against loins of whore ; Khamssieh, with two fingers,
pulling back child's grimy foreskin, sliding two ringed fingers alone
hardening shaft ; child's fingers catching folds of flesh at
Khamssieh's waist, legs stiffening against Khamssieh's — relaxed by
movement separating buttocks ; jissom bubbling in member
throbbing against smooth slit of Khamssieh's arse ; child's body
shuddering, Khamssieh's arse closing on glans ; jissom spurting :
taking turns, exhausted, workers, jissom spent, picking up, from
counter, pomegranate brought by black child in payment for
Khamssieh, carrying, licking, crouched in latrine, blood surging in
skull, wetting fruit with foam frothing from lips — belly forcing
ejection of excrement ; child's fresh breath over shoulders — in
Orgasm, child lifting neck — making Khamssieh shiver, workers’
jissom cooling inside loins ; Khamssieh, quick, spinning around,
Squeezing sated boy, kneeling, grabbing, pressing sticky penis,
Pulling out thread of jissom, carrying filament to lips, standing up.
kissing boy's mouth — boy’s eyelashes beating, moist with cold
Sweat ; Khamssieh putting softened penis back into pants, buttoning
jeans, taking pomegranate perched on edge of counter, sitting on

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step-ladder, teeth opening pomegranate wet with saliva, burying
slimy muzzle inside ; free hand groping under testicles, untying
knotted curls stuck down by stale jissom pulling at skin with
movement of thigh ; member, intact, shining, glimmering prismatic,
straining engorged — workers laughing, puffing, panting in latrines,
dirt on foot-slabs squelching beneath espadrilles under suspended
movement of masturbation, tuft of blue hair shining wet with jissom
poking from half-buttoned jeans of worker emerging, wet spot
marking lump under denim filled inside with softened member
swollen by lingering urge — ; lubricator, forehead wrapped in soiled
turban, prowling, hands in pockets, jeans tight between thighs ; blue
gaze piercing Khamssieh's veiled eyes, tongue protruding between
lips ; belly exposed, inflated, shining with grease, perspiring, grimy
sweat running from navel ; black boy rubbing against Khamssieh's
thigh, pulling, drawing leg away from step-ladder, palpating stiffened
limb ; testicles of whore, striking hairy surface of thighs — bouncing
from one to other —, squashed beneath buttocks, sweating onto
soiled wood ; pushed out, spreading over corner of step, in space
between legs ; lubricator's hand groping ; Khamssieh pushing black
boy back, bringing balls onto step : seized by lubricator, weighed in
hand, Khamssieh standing up, squeezing loins of lubricator leaning
lop-sided, covering — fingers of left hand spread — raised buttock,
held up by hardened crease of jeans, right hand palpating other
buttock, relaxed ; Khamssieh kissing lubricator’s low wrinkled
forehead, roots of dusty hair ; lubricator shuddering, fist squeezing
Khamssieh's balls ; whore, lashes brushing down over top of
rounded cheeks, detaching lubricator's fingers, moving off, loins
rubbed from front to back ; lubricator standing up ; relaxed buttock
sliding up thigh of whore ; Khamssieh, lifting penis onto belly, balls
suspended on fold of jeans between buttocks, unbuttoning
lubricator, pulling down back of jeans, back of pants — held at belly
by curve of rigid member —, drawing away from worker : member,
released, springing out horizontal, glans scraping over elastic of
pants ; laughing, Khamssieh, fingers hooked over lubricator’s

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shoulders, pressing, bending vertebrae, plunging member — jissom
seething — into shit-caked arse ; pumping : sweaty toes tightening
over lubricator's espadrilles ; glans, pressing into arse, expelling
burning jissom ; lubricator standing up, hands thrown behind back
delving into Khamssieh's softened belly ; quick, whore pulling hands
aside, stiffening ; jissom oozing between lubricator's buttocks. skin
sticking to top of pants ; Khamssieh pushing half-circumcised penis
forward, discharging runny jissom ; lubricator letting head roll onto
shoulder, ear bathed in Khamssieh’s seminal panting ; jissom forced
back between lubricator’s buttocks dripping into crumpled pants ;
Khamssieh's hand slipping into pouch, pressing sexual cluster into
gob of jissom ; lubricator moaning, tongue licking foam frothing over
Khamssieh’s thick lips ; flow of jissom, after fourth orgasm, reaching
Khamssieh's foot stuck into lubricator's espadrille ; / club-foot, leg
assailed by excremental worms driven from toilet-hole by cold
chilling excrements, coughing ; goose, aroused by excremental
stench, raising neck, squawking, struggling between club-foot’s
thighs ; date-picker, crouching in adjacent latrine, hitching up giant
body ; clapping hands over top of partition, thrusting from pelvis,
jeans buttoned, hurried, over soiled arse, hanging onto partition, top
of body swinging into darkened latrine : eyes, blinded, adjusting to
darkness, discerning body of club-foot squashed in corner : bracelet
finging right arm shaken, trembling, singlet swelling over nipples,
Softened penis stretched dragging in scum of toilet-hole, goose-
down fluttering over damp thighs ; club-foot raising head, neck
throbbing, eyes, pale, fixed on date-picker's face ; saltpetre running
through hair ; date-picker's arm reaching out, grabbing club-foot’s
Shoulder, pulling, lifting boy ; calf tense, pecked by goose, boy
Springing up, torso sticking, scraping against partition ; date-picker
lifting boy, standing up in second latrine, pulling — boy hitched up
to midriff over top of panel, hand covering sexual cluster ; date-
Picker, with one quick movement, swinging boy over ; rough concrete
grazing club-foot's member, tuft from pubic fleece left sticking to
Concrete ; wounded penis quivering against date-picker's thigh ;

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boy's foot hovering, suspended over concrete, trampled by date-
picker ; boy, thrown off balance, falling into hugging arms, kissed on
mouth ; feeling date-picker's member throbbing, hardening against
his belly : rushing, pulling out of embrace, diving into passage ;
date-picker following, into saloon : boy, standing in corner, singlet
pulled down pinched between thighs, club-foot ringed with bracelet
lifted against toe of other foot, panting ; date-picker unbuttoning,
pulling member out of jeans, spinning sideways, hands spread
pressing onto nape ; rigid member catching reddening beams of
declining fire, bouncing ; club-foot, relaxing grip of thighs on flap of
singlet, diving forward ; boy's arm, raised defending throat,
absorbing shock of body swollen with blood, with jissom : hand,
quick, grabbing, squeezing, holding date-picker’s member pressed
back against lower belly ; date-picker’s body softening, sinking down
; club-foot kneeling, lifting member to lips, pressing into mouth :
tongue delving, tip drawn out pointed, into folds, porous membranes,
scars, ritual cuts ; lips vibrating ; quick movement of date-picker
dazzled by reddening fire forcing glans into club-foot's throat ; boy,
teeth nibbling tense flesh of penis, choking, coughing : spittle
expelled from consumptive throat of club-foot splashing member of
date-picker ; / ..lying on terrace embalmed in foliage of tamarisk
fallen from Wazzag's body, robes gleaming ochre, blue, whore-
mistress, legs spread, watching soldier — spot of wine marking right
eye-socket, spreading onto pock-marked eye-lids — chuckling,
hanging mirror over mud fire-place, perching glass of hot water on
high-chair — baby undressed, exposed to draughts, taking evening
gruel —, shaving cheeks, neck ; soap trickling under shirt opened
down to loosened belt ; whore-mistress licking fingers, raising leg,
touching soldier's thigh with tip of toes.. « easy, sugarplum. » ; flight
of sand-larks invading terrace : reflection trembling in mirror :
females, babies, snuggling into pockets of hanging aprons ; males
gathering curls of hair, fleece, wool fallen from bodies of shepherds,
sheep ; soldier shaving around lips, foot of whore-mistress pressing
down on softened member, soldier's mouth pressing against warm

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lass of mirror, kissing sunny reflection of lips ; Rico, Wazzag,
fastened together, stepping back, between sheets, towards edge of
terrace ; Wazzag's pubic fleece stroking surface of Rico's buttocks ;
Wazzag's chest — skin stretched down towards pubis —, laughing
head, crossing top of mirror, vermilion ; soldier, fist clutching razor,
diving at whore-mistress, fingers spread pressing nipples stuck to
cloth ; leaning on woman, spinning around on belly, pressing head
between thighs of whore, into layers of crumpled cloth ; whore-
mistress, pulling back flaps of dungarees, seizing, milking hardened
member over lips ; soldier uncovering woman's vulva ; shaving pubic
fleece — sprouted since full moon —., slow, distracted, lips licking
pollen held in soiled embroidery of dress, eye, veiled in orgasm,
fixed on Wazzag's raised heel straining, tense ; girl-whores lifting up
soldiers unbuttoned against wall of saloon, sucking up, spitting out
last drops of jissom onto fingers stained with henna, each eating
globules from hands of others ; soldiers dozing, heads weighing on
shoulders : blond soldier with shoulders marked green pissing —
interrupting masturbation — over knees of whore, whore’s free
hand — other hand, splashed with jissom, pressing sticky member
—, smeared with excrements reeking of jackal scraped from
between boy's buttocks, panting, from corner of soldier's mouth to
ear-lobes, fangs, jowls of jackal ; / at top of street, on steps of small
butcher's shop painted red, children, wrapped tight in sackcloth,
drowning brood of short-eared owls in pool of mixed blood : female,
Perched on corner terrace of brothel, screeching — piercing :
children seizing chicks, plaintive : chicks drowning, waking
masturbated soldiers covered by girl-whores, protected against chill
of advancing darkness ; / butcher stuffing bloody coin into fist of
assistant-lad ; stepping outside, hand slapping buttocks of boy
bending down — movement enlarging tear in jeans along seam
between buttocks : tuft of wiry blue hair opening out under butcher's
palm —, bolting iron shutter ; pushing back children tearing legs,
necks, of drowned birds ; going down street, opening tap in oasis,
entering his field of wheat, squashing moles hidden in earth with

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heel of single boot — other foot wrapped in blood-soaked goat-hair
—, pulling up surplus of green wheat, tying wheat into bunches,
hanging bunches at belt ; blood-stained wheat springing back,
closing passage behind butcher ; irrigation ditches overflowing ;
noisy flights of sand-larks following current pumped under wheat ;
young negroes, female, male, copulating beneath embankment of
ritual wells ; colour of pink sandstone mixing with sweat, jissom,
seed, henna, bathing thrusting thighs, hands twitching interlaced ;
butcher leaping onto salt-marsh — mud scratched by claws of
grebes ; on doorstep of his bungalow, butcher squeezing his naked
children against bloody apron, placing his precious knives on baby's
cradle ; his hairs bristling in draughts of breeze, children fighting
outside with reeds dipped in paraffin, flick of butcher's hand lifting
up dress of his young wife leaning against small staircase of terrace,
butcher's fingers touching vulva ; curling back woman's lips, thumb
forcing teeth apart, pressing two fingers into mouth, pulling out
thread of jissom ; butcher sprawling on unmade bed, pressing lips
onto damp wool of blanket, stepping outside bungalow, grabbing
reed from youngest son, going back towards wife trying — forehead
blushing purple — to swallow filament, striking woman ; boy from
butcher's first union, emerging from clump of reeds, playing
amongst other children, leg trembling, shorts sticking to thigh.. / ;
wind shaking signposts, thorn-trees, buffeting flight of insect-
swarms, lifting up, carrying vultures towards exposed plateaus :
shingle vibrating ; sand backing up into toilet-holes, whipping
against buttocks of squatting workers, clouding streets, whipping
against bloody bandages of soldiers in pyjamas crowded under
apricot-trees beside hospital, whipping at ointment smeared over
impetigo, at ears stuffed with transistor ear-plugs ; whipping against
sheet-metal, canvas ; assailing black ledges cut through with mauve
gullies harbouring broods of grey sand-larks, filling up ruts in tracks
carved out by giant tires, treads of caterpillars, covering skeletons,
moulted skins ; / peasant youth rising from water, penis contracted,
climbing up towards town centre, face wrapped in veil ; / butcher's

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wife watching, lying beside washed, scrubbed, man — blood
haunting bedroom, dry powdered blood running in butcher's inner
ear throbbing with nightmares ; woman rising from bed, walking,
barefoot, through garden ; boy of first union, crouching in
dandestine opium, grabbing, squeezing foot of young woman
between thighs ; woman lifting up embalmed boy, tearing off tuft of
opium, squashing juice against boy's glans ; young butcher rolling in
bed ; woman rushing into bedroom, pausing, bare-breasted, beside
fire, rubbing nipples on husband's wet linen hung out in corner ;
rummaging in pile of bloody clothes, next to hearth ; butcher sitting,
naked, on edge of bed, eating bits of omelette, dates ; woman
crouching down in front, tongue gathering crumbs fallen onto pubic
fleece ; standing up, washing out man's ears : prodding with small
stick wrapped in twist of linen ; cutting, man standing looking at teeth
in broken mirror, balls of dried shit caught in hairs around arse ;
nerve twitching along butcher's leg ; woman laying man down, sitting
on edge of bed, stroking toes of naked man : under toenails, rotting
blood — absorbed through canvas of mismatched espadrilles at
moment of slaughter ; hand moving up along body stretched
sideways, reaching penis pressed back against belly in fold of sheet
= man rolling over, asleep, fist gripped between thighs, kissing.. tuft
of anal hairs, downy lips of assistant-lad, biting boy's hair plastered
with excrements of vampire bats.. ; peasant youth kneeling beside
pool of mixed blood, shoulder leaning against iron shutter of
butcher's shop ; hand rummaging in rubbish-bin among tattered bits
of flesh, seizing transpierced kid's heart, lifting heart to mouth ; bats
trapped in cold-store, clutching onto sides of suspended meat ;
Peasant, chewing kid's heart, entering women's brothel ; arms of
whore-mistress catching, pushing youth towards staircase, youth
Squatting down, uncovering jars, lapping up jelly ; whore-mistress
unbuttoning boy, hugging spattered body ; whores undressing boy.
licking body clean, quick tongues pressing into each fold of flesh ;

Standing up, body revealing tattoos, shining under neon,
Covered in foam from head to foot; black whore kissing swollen

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knees, infected by vagrancy ; whore-mistress pressing hoe into boy's
arms, boy grabbing handle, striking tiles : quick, five hands seizing
tool; boy crouching down, scraping tiles with both hands pressed
together, whore-mistress picking boy up, pressing shovel against
belly, boy digging at cracks in tiling : quick, smeared with jissom, five
other hands seizing tool ; boy's foot stiffening, stamping on tiles,
kicking forward ; whore-mistress pressing rake into hands of boy,
boy forcing teeth of rake into cracks in tiling : quick, wrinkled, five
new hands grabbing tool : boy dragging splayed toes of right foot
over tiling ; whore-mistress bringing clamp : quick, hot hands, all
together, seizing, concealing tool : peasant boy crossing hands,
squeezing knee between palms ; rising, springing forward, diving.
slobbering, onto crate of Orangina, grabbing, opening bottles one by
‘one with unbroken teeth, eyes darting, hands groping around room
for metal : biting into piping, nails, locks ; cutting, twisting,
extracting, teeth dripping with pink saliva, untying knots of wire,
tearing gums, breaking teeth ; whores holding boy back at hips :
flushed, fingers encircled with rings, hands slipping on spittle
smeared over skin ; boy collapsing onto pile of military cast-offs ;
sitting, legs folded back under buttocks : .. « peasant, throw your
tools into river... use your sex... worker, use your sex.. », boy rolling
penis in hand, pulling back skin, palpating, squeezing, stretching
balls back along swelling shaft, towards belly, pinching, spitting over
glans, digging nails into tiny lips, drawing blood ; kneeling, fist
grasping member, top of body leaning sideways, crawling over tiles,
hardened member digging into cracks : thread of blood shining in
crack. / ; butcher's wife laying down boy of first union on bare earth,
at site of tomb of first wife, dead in childbirth — night after burial,
rats emerging from ground perfumed, heads painted, without
attacking body —, woman lying over boy ; pair of lamergeyers
falling, fastened together, down along trunk of eucalyptus, beaks
tearing at bark, seed splashing bark, birds sprawling on ground,
bleeding ; young woman's hand sliding under boy's shorts, along
thigh, up to pubic fleece, stroking sweaty curls : pulsations of

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quivering member beating with veins of woman's hand ; butcher,
risen from bed, springing into garden, brandishing his knives ;
rushing at two bodies enlaced ; slitting throats, hacking at flesh of
necks ; // fire bursting ; butcher standing up, running off, front of
naked body splashed with blood ; running into salt-marsh, through
wheat-fields ; slowing down, head buried in hands, alongside wall of
brothels ; flowering branches, shaken, casting violet flames into
dawn light ; butcher, drowsy, collapsing ; fingers shaken by
nightmare, hand drawing on wooden door, in blood, man's penis ;
gust of wind waking butcher ; getting up, opening door, hand
brushing through powdered blood caught in hairs of chest ;
Khamssieh pulling giant worker — copulating with club-foot — out
of latrine ; lifting neck, looking up ; butcher advancing towards
counter, dusty feet trampling over bodies of workers sleeping on
tiles ; blood coating erect member ; Khamssieh, heart thumping
under oozing lungs, letting go of two bodies wrapped together ;
stepping in front of butcher ; chest of whore raised touching bloody
chest of butcher ; hugging man — man pressing clenched fists
between buttocks of whore ; man tightening embrace, tops of bodies
stuck together ; bloody fists grinding into Khamssieh's arse ; pulling
back, releasing whore streaked with blood, running off ; Knamssieh
coming back to entwined bodies, pulling club-foot — nipples
bleeding, mangled between man's fingers — out of date-picker's
arms ; dragging date-picker to door by shoulders, trail of foam,
jissom, frothing on tiles ; Khamssieh, alone, dragging naked bodies,
othes tied around necks, out onto sand ; closing door of brothel,
Stretching out arms, slicking down sandy hair with jissom-spattered
fingers, shaking member with single flick of shining loins, returning,
lying down on floor-cloths in box-room ; hand stroking golden
€areass of transistor radio packed with soap, toothbrush, pearl
button, zip ; Khamssieh pressing ear against holes of loud-speaker,
dozing, fire beating down onto body — tufts unravelling. opening,
Gurling with dilation of pores ; / Wazzag rising from whore-master's
bed, flattening hand against window-pane lashed by sunny shower ;

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belly swollen, cooled hand stroking throat, moving past bed, whore-
master’s hand slipping out from sheets, grabbing member, pulling,
swinging boy down onto bed, pulling up sheet over nape ; Wazzag,
laughing, sliding fingers through brown curls on chest of whore-
master leaning over whore ; man's knee, hairy, pressing, between
Wazzag's thighs, into sexual cluster soiled with excrements from
Rico's arse ; sheet, stretched out over bodies, filtering pink light :
whore-master kissing Wazzag's eyes, wide open.. « .. my gold
running out of your eyes.. », lips closing eyelids ; sweat shining in
folds of throat, stubble on chin pricking Wazzag's smooth cheek :
boy licking man's blue moustache ; wrinkles of man's forehead
rolling back under turban ; Wazzag laughing, foam frothing at lips :
whore-master's member, hardened, sliding up over Wazzag’s groin ;
pubic fleece sweeping over boy's ribs ; whore-master's legs swinging
over Wazzag's head ; sheet collapsing ; Wazzag, sneezing, turning
master's member away from mouth, knee pushing back throat of man
leaning over thighs, rising from bed, going down stairs, flipping
down, over lintel, booking-slate next to his name ; throwing tattered
raincoat over naked body, crossing passage, garden, pulling new-
born leverets out of cages, carrying babies over to shed housing
birds, piglets ; dropping down among animals scattered in straw ;
balls rolling under buttocks ; piglets suckling at Wazzag's penis :
birds delving into hair, shitting in ears of boy ; Wazzag, laughing.
stroking bruised belly ; door — corroded by sweat, jissom, spit —
of common-room jammed open onto passage : over open door —
smaller by half — of shed, Wazzag, ears twitching, raising head from
heap of sweaty fur, sniffing air, spying lower body of date-picker
throbbing, belted tight ; worker leaning on counter, member bulging
in jeans, clacking tongue in mouth, thumping counter ; Wazzag
standing up, animals following to doorstep ; Wazzag wrapping
raincoat around body, jumping on wet sand ; date-picker smoking.
apricot-branch crowning turban, tuft of shiny hairs sprouting from
singlet, against neck ; eyes laughing through smoke ; wrinkles
creasing under curly fringe on forehead ; body sweating, slumped

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lop-sided : ...« ..getting married this morning.. don’t want girl's
parents see me get stiff for daughter... get to work, sugar.» ; Wazzag
puffing on cigarette pulled from date-picker's lips ; undressing ;
pulling off clothes of date-picker shaken by slight laugh releasing :
perfume from mouth, droplets from tip of glans ; Wazzag positioning
behind date-picker, sniffing shoulders, nape, — heated, embalmed
from hanging, in dawn fire, over core of swinging fronds in palm-
grove —, rubbing member against worker's loins, laughing,
buggering arse ; without holding body : holding root of member in
both hands, hollowing loins ; ear-rings tinkling ; sweat shining on
bristly down over lips ; orgasm tugging at bluish curls of groin, skin
of pubis stretched, flushed pink in sleep, over muscles, bluish bones,
towards date-picker's arse ; sweat running down horizontal fold of
curved buttock ; Wazzag, with each orgasm, shaking heavy mop of
hair ; jissom flowing out onto thigh ; date-picker, bent over counter,
veiled eyes closing, tongue lolling between lips, mottled ; penis
hardening against zinc ; fifth orgasm : Wazzag, leaning over date-
picker's rump, kissing cheek ; belching, movement of loins : drawing
back from body ; wrinkled hand sliding over sweat cooling on back of
neck ; member hanging, softened, curved ; Wazzag pushing in front
of date-picker, pressing top of belly against counter, spreading
buttocks, placing date-picker's member into slit of arse, spine ;. ;
Khamssieh's leg, shaken by dream, pushing door of box-room ajar :
tarantula buried in spongy pubic clump, boy stretched out on side.. ;
/ nomad undressing, throwing robe over shepherd's wrists held out,
wading into pool ; water running in hollow of hand ; lying in current,
loins supported on firm sand ; shepherd watering camels from
golden copper cup, sprinkling rest over rumps ; water streaming
around nomad’s head submerged up to ears ; desert shimmering ;
yellow oilskins sweating, spread out on sand ; black soldiers of
border-post, crowding around pool, shoulder to shoulder, standing
lop-sided, propped on one leg, watching nomad bathing ; bare-
chested, loins hugged in thin shorts cut brief, members protruding,
flaccid, pink glans on smooth thighs, smoking dried tamarisk in long

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leaves ; post-commander, squatting in sand under embankment,
pressing baby-bottle of concentrated milk between teeth of gazelle
; group of nomads wrapped in long ashen robes, lying against wall
of sick-bay ; two soldiers, bellies squeezed in khaki woollen pants,
filling guerbas from water-spout ; bending from loins spittle foaming
at lips tying strings : pants sliding down over buttocks, exposing top
of mauve arse-slit seamed with fresh shit ; in corner of courtyard,
women, sheltering under awning of stitched goat-skins, fondling
premature baby smeared with tar, buried between thighs of pale girl,
eyes closed, breast heaving ; camels, watered, rolling in sand,
shepherd squatting down, washing hands in water ; lice, buried in
folds of body, crawling beneath rags ; nomad, pubic fleece rippling
in the receding current, dozing, head resting against wooden groyne
; shepherd filling guerbas ; soldiers chewing sugar-lumps ; nomad
opening eyes, sugar shining in soldiers’ fists ; nomad licking lips ;
rolling head in water, turning over onto belly, lifting lips out of water..
:« .akli.. suck soldiers. get sugar. » ; sun drying blood suspended
in ginger curls of Khamssieh's armpits — boy sleeping on side ;
tarantula crawling from sticky pubic hair, climbing up onto whore's
swollen belly, distended abdomen dividing blood over chest ; body of
whore shuddering, hand following steps of tarantula around right
nipple : « ..suck lower, man.. » ; penis, tucked back into hollow of
groin, hardening : tarantula brushing against tip of tongue poking
between lips ; jissom slopping out of Wazzag's arse, pushed back,
driven out along anal passage by date-picker's member ; Wazzag
stifling fit of laughter ; Khamssieh waking : tarantula, alarmed by
twitching of muscles, crawling into nostril ; Khamssieh sniffing scent.
stifling sneeze, pulling legs together, suppressing shivers of body
smeared with cold sweat moistening dried blood, beads of sweat
glistening in fresh blood over loins ; nostril swollen with jissom
squashing spider ; Wazzag exploding into laughter ; tarantula
Stinging nostril : venom, flowing with blood, veiling eyes of whore,
softening eyelid ; Khamssieh's hand, weak, crushing tarantula in
nostril : venom hardening forehead ; fingernails scraping cold blood

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around nipples : pulling aead tarantula, pinching sticky legs, out of
nostril, pushing crushed spider between buttocks ; exhausted elbows
dropping onto heaps of floor-cloths : penis contracting into
shrivelled scrotum ; odour of sodomy wafting through room ; rubbing
of jeans, farts : regular in dawn silence ; whore-master buried in
hollow of mattress — single imprint marking morning sheet : man
holding fast to boy, Wazzag, Khamssieh in turn, taken into bed each
evening —, eyes closed, central seam of sheet pinched between
buttocks, eating sugar : whole body breathing covered by sheet
lifted, wetted in middle by erect member : arms of date-picker
squeezing Wazzag's waist, palpating hollow of belly beneath torso ;
fresh orgasm : date-picker flopping over rump of whore, hands
gripping ribs, rolling skin over bones of thorax : Wazzag, choking,
pulling away from zinc, unhooking date-picker's fingers ; damp
fingers of whore, fingers of date-picker entwined, worker's member
stiffening, squirting scant droplets ; fingers riding up over Wazzag's
breast into folds of neck — head of whore bent over counter, breath
clouding zinc —, twisting sweaty skin under chin planted with sparse
curls of blue hair trimmed short ; date-picker, hand wrapped around
Wazzag's throat, kissing mouth of whore at corner of lips, licking,
sucking up thread of foam smeared over gums — neck throbbing
against date-picker's palm / ; Khamssieh moaning : nauseated by
workers’ jissom mixed, bland, with saliva in mouth ; wrinkled penis
retracting into pubic fleece / ; date-picker's other hand grabbing,
Squashing Wazzag's hardening member against belly, palm hollowing
pubis, orgasm — thread of blood-scented jissom streaming, without
Spasms, out of glans — shining and crying through whole body of
date-picker ; youth rolling, fastened to whore, over strip of floor
along counter, pulling member from between Wazzag's buttocks,
Standing up, bare legs spread planted on one side, other side of
Tump of whore sprawling on belly, toes delving into hairs, under
armpits ; slow, stroking, with dusty heel, shoulder, neck, greasy curls
Over sticky nape, palpating balls against jissom-spattered thigh :
toes closing eyelids of whore against wood : .. « sleep, sunshine,

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you've dried me out. » ; Wazzag rolling head over arm — soft hairs
shining, plastered down by jissom —, other arm dragging over floor
up to bare foot of date-picker buttoning jeans : Wazzag's fingers
stroking date-picker's toe-nails, slipping between phalanges,
rubbing, sticky, sugared grime ; laugh shaking shoulders, loins of
whore ; sun striking amber mass of buttocks coated with jissom,
jissom sticking date-picker's pubic curls to whore's reddened coccyx
; Wazzag rolling onto side, thread of jissom flowing down fold of
squashed buttock, onto floor, spread out over wood by movement of
sliding back buttock ; Wazzag's palm enveloping date-picker's foot,
date-picker freeing foot, kicking back against Wazzag’s chest ; whore
grabbing, licking foot, sucking up sugary grime trapped under nails,
nibbling cracked nail ; heel of foot, jerking, bending back, covered in
saliva, onto cheek ; jeans, stuck to limbs by jissom, seam cutting into
buttocks, into layer of excrement, threads of denim pulling apart —
over mound of right buttock — distended, in front, by hardened
penis ; erection lifting upper flap of fly — lower flap stuck against
fold of groin — ; through gluey opening, Wazzag — sitting up, hand
squashing date-picker’s foot against floor —, poking dusty muzzle :
tongue pulling testicles back under erect member, nostrils sniffing up
jissom from curls, ear palpitating rolled into sticky folds of jeans,
over thigh ; forehead marked by buttons of fly ; date-picker scraping
itchy scalp ; gust of wind rattling window-pane ; Wazzag gulping
date-picker's testicles, tightening teeth around root ; hand hooked
over date-picker's buttock ; Wazzag's arse perched on heel of foot.
toe-nails catching glans ; date-picker sliding fat fingers through
Wazzag's hair ; member curved over arched eyebrows of whore,
softening, brushing — drooping down — over Wazzag's eyelashes
; whore gulping balls, tongue gathering up date-picker's member ;
date-picker kicking at Wazzag's chest ; whore knocked over.
sprawling on back, legs spread ; date-picker buttoning jeans.
Pressing foot against Wazzag’s chest ; shaken by laugh : date-picker.
chin squashed into folds of neck, eyes open pressing down into
lower eyelids, forehead bent forward, cheeks swollen, mouth hanging

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loose. following awkward movements of fingers in buttonholes,
Wazzag, skin of torso rolled over bones by date-picker's foot, biting
into fist ; date-picker, from pile of bodies heaped against door,
picking up, flinging espadrilles onto Wazzag's belly, leaning,
balancing, slipping shoes onto feet against suffocating body :
standing up, pulling sticky coin from jeans, throwing coin onto thigh
of whore — ; squatting down in latrine ; Wazzag wiping, with back of
hand, face smeared with jissom up to forehead ; lower lip jutting out
: blowing away pubic curls of date-picker caught in eyebrows ;
standing up ; smearing gobs of jissom, with both hands open flat,
over belly, sides of thighs ; jumping over counter, stepping into box-
room, pushing foot between Khamssieh’s thighs — under genital
cluster —, straightening up, looking at face, neck, in tarnished
mirror hung over shelves ; Khamssieh groaning, squeezing Wazzag's
heel between thighs ; Wazzag's big toe curling up against membrane
of arse ; Wazzag lifting arms, propping elbows on shelf : light fart
rippling over slimy slope of buttocks ; finger scraping at jissom
plastered over blue eyebrows, finger-nail piercing abscess formed
during copulation, under lips of date-picker, on throat of whore;
wrinkles of forehead, folds formed on sides of eye-sockets showing
marks of date-picker's fingers ; Khamssieh’s sexual cluster sticking
to Wazzag’s foot ; Wazzag squatting down, genitals spreading over
Khamssieh's knee, hand stroking belly of whore, sliding over fold of
groin, delving between thighs, seizing, lifting, pulling genital cluster
up against belly ; Wazzag, kneeling down, lying on top of Khamssieh
kissing mouth, nostril : « .. Wazzo, men thumping on counter : throw
cloth over my thighs ; tears, not jissom, boiling in my belly,
tarantula's venom freezing my blood : pull feet, pull me into sun ;
tarantula jumps onto killer at source of pain : tarantula crawled from
butcher's cock onto mine.. » ; Wazzag standing, pulling Khamssieh by
feet, underneath window ; tears bathing Wazzag’s bloody face : blue
eye fixed in violaceous socket ; Wazzag throwing floor-cloth over
Khamssieh's thighs ; through window, head smudged with grease
Popping up, body propped against wall ; shaved scalp, bluish, framed

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square ; mouth, wide open, exposing shining teeth, saliva flowing,
held back by purple tongue : « .. fuck you through wall, dog. » ;
breath of panel-beater blowing out adobe-dust ; .... / eyes, teeth
biting into high mouth, high throat of whore scratching chest, biting
at straining member, hardened balls / .... ;: panel-beater pulling head
back, arm reaching through window towards Wazzag's throat
Wazzag, hips cocked sideways, head tipped down onto shoulder,
straightening up, grabbing hand of panel-beater, turning palm over,
kissing hollow, fists squeezing, pushing worker's hand down towards
thigh, onto folds of flesh under testicles : panel-beater's hand
sweating, contracting in Wazzag's fist ; whore releasing hand,
jumping backwards ; panel-beater spitting : spit splashing whore's
belly ; Wazzag leaning back against shelves, chin buried in folds of
neck, spreading spittle through pubic fleece, back under balls ;
mouth chewing cigarette-end pulled from lips of date-picker ; sexual
cluster, dripping with saliva, shining in half-light ; Wazzag bounding
out of box-room, double-locking door, climbing up stairs to bedroom
of whore-master, throwing key onto bed ; whore-master, naked.
pissing through window ; Wazzag's hand, quick, stroking sheer
surface of master's buttocks : trace of dried jissom trailing from
between buttocks down behind knee ; Wazzag crouching, licking
trace from source to point of interruption ; leg shuddering ; jet of
urine shimmering in rays ; standing in alley, slumping against door,
panel-beater licking hand embalmed in Wazzag's seminal scent ;
Wazzag kissing shuddering leg ; whore-master shaking, stretching
penis, wiping fingers on Wazzag's hair ; Wazzag's tongue gathering
master's member, drawing organ into mouth ; droplets dripping
around whore's chin, nostrils ; member swelling in mouth : « .
enough, | have Khamssieh.. panel-beater down below.. quick, go clap
his arse. » ; Wazzag, strangled, choking, spitting scant mucus onto
glans : « .. he'll clip my wings... you seen his face ?..», chewing —
after speaking —, swallowing mucus ; licking glans, pushing tip of
tongue between tiny lips of member held horizontal in front of wide-
open mouth ; foam rising between teeth, escaping from corners of

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fips : whore-master laughing, knee kicking Wazzag's throat ; head of
whore thumping wooden frame of bed ; whore-master sitting on edge
of bed, gripping head between thighs ; beneath master's fingers,
bump forming under Wazzag’s hair : « .. panel-beater will straighten
you out, Wawa. » ; whore-master wiping dusty hips of Wazzag
standing up : « .. Khamssieh all dried up.. stung by tarantula. » ;
whore-master sprawling, legs spread, on bed, burying head in pillow
ra. jissom comes back before dawn.. careful of butchers, butchers’
lads, tarantulas love to nest in beams over vapours of blood... after
embrace, shake out your hair, your body.. » ; Wazzag going down
stairs, date-picker coming out of latrine ; Wazzag opening door onto
street, date-picker buttoned back up over sated flesh, panel-beater
buttoned over erectile flesh, brushing together ; Wazzag squeezing
date-picker's buttock : « .. come back and see me before the births...
» ; jeans smeared with cold jissom, Wazzag wiping hand on hip ; same
moment : panel-beater, unbuttoned, pouncing from behind, hugging
whore, striking nape — Wazzag bending top of body —, impaling
arse, sharp cry gurgling drowned in saliva ; hands, coated with
verdigris, fists, covered in aluminium-dust, pressing Wazzag's belly ;
mutilated foot — big toe sliced off by metal sheet — curling up,
bound tight in espadrille, against toe of whore ; panel-beater
whistling, modulating : two apprentice-boys, members spurring
jeans, looming ; nostrils smudged with grease ; in movement
Propping elbows on counter, — / opening, lifting flaps of denim
jackets buttoned over bare chests / —, skin of bellies appearing
convex, pearly ; bodies thrown forward, one leg bent back under
buttocks, foot jammed against zinc, lifting thigh — inner surface
broken by bulge of member drawn down, squeezed inside sticky
jeans —, crotch-seam cutting into balls pressed under buttocks
towards arse, chewing sticks of licorice ; gaze settling on heavy mass
— weighing down despite pressure of panel-beater's legs — of
Wazzag's buttocks, sexual cluster retracted into pubic fleece :
apprentice-boys regulating breathing with panting of panel-beater ;
elbows, propped together. vibrating against zinc ; during orgasm,

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eyes of panel-beater, dim, veiled, assailed by flies ; apprentice-boys*
members pulsating against thighs, pubic curls caught under seam
pulling at wrinkled skin of scrotum ; panel-beater panting over rump
of whore ; jeans hugging panel-beater's buttocks : Wazzag, throwing
hands behind back, groping at jeans, kneading damp patches of
denim soaked with sweat ; hands of panel-beater grabbing Wazzag's
sexual cluster, pushing organs up against belly, stroking membranes,
stretched smooth back to edge of arse : .. « .. dog.. dog.. twins want
to fuck you... grind your bones... saw you yesterday with women...
sweaty hands mark sheet-metal.... paint won't stick.. boss says « get
Wazzag, Khamssieh, dry out my boys » ....they come from north...
finger-nails clipped.. sundays, dress smart.. cut deep, sting hard..
squirt their juice in garage, over Lockheed.. in shithouse, foot slips
on slab : bowl, step, sprayed with jissom... sand sticks to Brylcreem
in their hair.. boss says : «let weak one sniff brown dog, strong one.
red dog»... they sleep in same bed, behind workshop.. strong one
sticks hub-caps on weak one's breasts, ties him up in sheet, lies on
top.. morning, | unwrap them, chilled by night-wind.. » ; Wazzag.
bending over, raising eyes towards bottom of twins’ bodies, tongue
licking lips, wrinkles smoothing out on forehead, around edge of
eye-sockets ; third orgasm pulling panel-beater down over loins of
whore : Wazzag clearing throat, spitting ; spittle shooting in front of
espadrille of one twin : fresh eye riveted on naked eye of Wazzag.
squashing, spreading spittle over wood — rope sole slipping over
gobs, member rising, swelling against thigh, stretching horizontal
folds of jeans ; squashed mucus wetting skin of foot through rope
fibres worn bare, mixing with layer of excrement — dogs and men
— stuck to rope over layer of grease ; panel-beater, quick, pulling
out member, squashing, pressing violaceous glans, tinted pink by
transparent film, against Wazzag's arse, rubbing member down over
sheer surface of buttocks : filament broken at roots of member —
panel-beater sighing, shivering —, adhering to buttocks describing
shaky pattern over downy black hairs ; panel-beater, sated —
retracted member cooling against Wazzag's buttock —, rubbing

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shaved scalp down sweaty back of whore standing erect ; twins,
fingers stained with minium, squeezing members, through jeans ;
panel-beater jerking head forward, flinging Wazzag against
apprentice-boys : stronger boy grabbing, pulling at penis, hugging
whore around loins with other arm, kissing mouth, spitting licorice-
juice into throat, chewing licorice-stick against Wazzag's teeth. lips
pressed together ; at same time, apprentice-boy rolling Wazzag’s
penis against own member squeezed in jeans, from fold to fold :
lifting knee along Wazzag's hip, leg tightening against bottom of
whore’s buttocks ; articulation of knee hugged in jeans rubbing folds
of flesh, jissom dried in folds falling in powder over calves of whore
; short cry from him, bursting out of constricted chest — apprentice-
boy hugging in violent jerks ; impassive hands of Wazzag stroking
trembling buttocks of apprentice, thumb hooked into belt-loops of
jeans against loins : other fingers rubbing at stitches between
buttocks, sliding into slit pinching seam, pressing in towards arse :
‘one hand — thumb hooked into back pocket, cut small for repairs to
jeans — enveloping buttock, finger-nails scraping seam soaked with
seminal sweat, against slope of thigh ; apprentice pressing open jaw
into hollow of Wazzag's cheek, hand, at same time, grabbing, pulling
Wazzag's testicles downwards : whore, collared, scrotum mauled,
quick, hand — busy scraping boy's arse — wriggling under jeans.
out through other side, onto hip of other apprentice, finger brushing
over fat in olive folds of bare flesh released through tear in back
pocket, hanging over mound of buttocks ; apprentice, staring at
Wazzag, letting licorice-juice overflow, drip over chin, down onto
Palpitating throat, bucking pelvis towards Wazzag's hips embraced :
Movement creasing edges of tear, folds under buttocks, jeans
Pressing deep into anal slit — cloth softened by friction, by constant
secretions of love —, buttocks, pressed against cold metal to calm
erect member, pulling apart, lifted from counter by twitch of nerve ;
loins shifting towards Wazzag, flaps of denim jacket rubbing over
hollow belly, sweat gleaming ; Wazzag licking wiry black hair of
Stronger apprentice, Brylcreem greasing lips ; apprentice jamming

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head against Wazzag's chin, kissing whore’s throat, lips spread,
snot, expelled with jerks of breathing, splashing throat ; apprentice-
boy whining, squashing nostril into mucus, spreading gob over skin
ridged by spine ; leg rubbing hardened calf of whore ; Wazzag
seizing, pulling at genital cluster of weaker boy drawn out in blunt
spur under jeans over slope of thigh, hand of whore spread wide.
thumb hooked over stitches of fly ; stronger boy striking middle of
Wazzag's arm with clenched fist, knocking into upper body of whore
; quick, fist catching Wazzag's testicles, turning towards twin,
spitting, kicking between boy's thighs : twin groaning, doubled up.
cupping sexual cluster in both hands, unbuttoning fly, index finger
gathering reddening member packed into white cotton pants
smeared with grease ; stronger boy pushing Wazzag, held by
member, towards first latrine in passage : panel-beater, squatting.
excrement bursting between buttocks, eating pomegranate picked up
from concrete, held in sticky hand, other hand pulling thread of
jissom from member stiffened again at sound of breathing, grinding
muscles of apprentice-boys squeezing Wazzag ; boy pressing
Wazzag against soiled wall ; panel-beater throwing pomegranate
onto flow of red excrements, scraping, with juice-smeared fingers.
shit caked around arse, dipping fingers into water-can, wiping hand
on wall, on Wazzag's calf, standing up, buttoning fly, bringing mouth
against ear of apprentice : « fuck him, what are you waiting for ? ..
for my jissom to dry in his arse ? ... twist a wet floor-cloth up his
hole.. a dog never washes... licks, gets licked... this one can't bend
back to reach his own arse... gets Khamssieh to lick it.. Khamssieh.
at dawn one day each month, after embraces, goes out into street.
buttocks rub together, shine in red sunlight ; brushes past wall
beside trash-cans, climbs up onto mound strewn over with chicken-
carcasses attacked by white dogs, chases dogs away, kneels.
stretches out over carcasses ; throws hands behind back, spreads
buttocks ; hot tongues of sunbeams, tongue of dog with dew-soaked
Coat, push into half-open arse ; Khamssieh howls, dogs rummage.
alongside body, into spongy layer of rubbish crawling with tiny

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worms aroused by weight of body, by rays of fire ; bitch licks boy's
hair spattered with jissom ; tongue wraps around ear of whore,
Khamssieh's tongue pokes out, rolls back onto cheek ; two tongues
touch ; dog nuzzles into Khamssieh’s arse, growls, springs over body
of whore onto bitch, bites throat ; Khamssieh swallows juices from
tongue of bitch, slips arm between back legs of dog planted in swirl
of mud, grabs, squeezes penis ; dog slumps down, sits with arse
pressed against cheek of whore, heavy bushy tail digs into neck ;
turns back towards Khamssieh’s arse, leans back onto hind legs,
tubs reddening member, sticky, against slope of buttocks spread
wide ; Khamssieh thrusts pelvis, pushes dog back, stands up, wipes
front of body spotted with mud ; tiny abscess tears open on throat.»
; apprentice-boy pushing Wazzag out of latrine — moving out : two
simmering bodies stuck between lintels —, leaning against wall of
passage. opening tap fixed to wall between Wazzag's legs spread,
hand curved directing stream of water towards thigh of whore :
panel-beater crossing saloon, embalmed loins breathing hot, chafed
by jeans ; apprentice rubbing Wazzag's streaming thigh with flat of
hand ; Wazzag’s member rigid, catching in flap of denim jacket of
apprentice leaning over alongside whore ; boy's hand stopping over
bottom of Wazzag’s buttock.. « Khemissa ... I'm afraid of his shit... »
: weaker twin, pain heating belly, turning, elbows propped on
counter, towards door left ajar by panel-beater ; hip brushing hip of
panel-beater ; latter throwing coins, in front of Khemissa, onto zinc ;
Khemissa puffing out chest to touch elbow of panel-beater turning
away ; eyes, half-open, fixed on shining eyes of panel-beater, teeth
bared, chest purring, growling in throat ; ...« Khemissa... your wiry
hands have wiped babies’ bottoms,... scrubbed saucepans... cleaned
out clogged carburettors.. », Khemissa cooling, head tilted down onto
shoulder; penis, tucked into pouch of pants, poking out of jeans,
Spurting soiled cotton, stretching elastic of seam, tuft of flaxen hair
Sprouting over curve of member visible through opening of fly ;
Stronger twin pulling strip of spongy cloth from hole in wall, wringing
Cloth under tap, dipping into box of Vim, raising rag, striking,

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bending Wazzag over — latter spreading buttocks with hands —.
wiping Wazzaq's arse with strip stretched out at arm's length ; lather
mixed with jissom, excrements, bubbling in slit of arse, dripping onto
legs of whore : lifted up on cloth, shaken out, splashing front of
apprentice-boy's body, forehead, folds of jeans between thighs :
Khemissa following panel-beater, unbuttoning, buttoning up worker
on doorstep ; apprentice-boy throwing soiled rag into half-open
latrine, pushing Wazzag's curved loins towards tap. positioning
coccyx of whore against tap, turning tap full on, jumping aside ;
water washing brown lather out of Wazzag's arse ; Wazzag, numbed.
penis, balls, contracted by cold into drenched fleece, hands on
knees, staring, eyes wide open, at puddle lapping over feet on floor
of beaten earth, advancing up to tiles of saloon ; apprentice-boy
turning off water, dragging Wazzag, shivering. out into garden.
wiping legs of whore with tarpaulin shading caged leverets ;
pressing, twisting corner of hardened tarpaulin into whore's
streaming arse ; Wazzag whining ; apprentice-boy’s fist squeezing
hip ; thrown forward by twisting of tarpaulin between buttocks,
Wazzag swaying, holding onto wooden frame of cage. hardened
penis — fist of apprentice kneading hip : pulling at skin of lower
belly, from root of member up towards loins — squashed against
wire netting, glans caught in mesh, peppered with sand kicked up by
fleeing leverets ; apprentice pulling out wad from Wazzag's arse.
tarpaulin collapsing at feet ; rustling, trampled by furious feet of boy
thrown back against whore, whole jaw biting into Wazzag's neck from
behind ; Khemissa, on doorstep, squeezing buttocks of panel-beater.
latter slipping finger under arched member of whore pulled up out of
pants against elastic : opposite brothel, on mound rising above wall
of street, pair of loaded camels copulating, kneeling in burning sand
; with movement of spasm, knees digging deeper into cooler, heavier
sand, seed scintillating on white coats ; open muzzles assailed by
flies aroused by dawn fire ; threads of slaver, shaken in spasms,
hanging out of lower jaws ; Khemissa letting saliva mixed with licorice
overflow from lips, run out of wide-open mouth, over chin : neck.

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sticky collar of denim jacket, shining wet ; camels uncoupling,
sprawling on sides, eyes closed, muzzles half-closed : woman
wrapped in bluish veils looming, green plastic bucket in hand,
followed by naked child, coarse grains of salt sticking to short penis
: woman's bare foot kicking into palpitating chest of female, forcing
animal up : under camel's belly, fixing bucket ; squatting, child
lounging against flank of male playing with sticky penis retracted
into fleshy folds, grabbing teat of female, milking, coppery eyelids
closed over eyes reddened by salt, by fury of night-love ; Khemissa
rubbing encrusted eyes ; panel-beater disappearing at corner of
street : Khemissa closing door, leaning, squeezing latch between
thighs, legs stiffened, manoeuvring latch against member softened in
pants pulled out of jeans, seizing, turning member, latch, with both
hands together, espadrille smearing gob of jissom — from panel-
beater : thick clots swimming in thin liquid — over floor ; whore-
master coming down staircase, forearm holding plate of omelette
against hairy chest, gaze sweeping sideways past eyes of Khemissa
; boy’s member, sticky neck, beating with flux of blood ; whore-
master opening second latrine in passage ; buttocks, smoothed tight
by movement raising foot onto step, rolling in bluish penumbra of
passage. loins, back, undulating ; eye, catching Khemissa’s member
Springing, marbled, out of pants ; whore-master setting plate in front
Of foot of club-foot crouched cross-legged on step, dozing, head
Pressed into corner, face dotted with small flecks of hardened
jissom, singlet streaked with traces of excrement ; whore-master
Stepping back out, double-locking door ; key clutched in fist, coming
back into saloon ; penis stretched, softened, bouncing against hairy
thighs ; Khemissa lifting arm in front of eyes, heart jumping in chest.
knees quaking ; whore-master climbing back up to bedroom : top of
body disappearing at top of stairs, jissom glistening on downy black
hairs under buttocks ; Khemissa stretching out on side, against door,
rolling on belly, crawling, panting, raising dust, alongside counter :
Seam of jeans tearing between spread buttocks ; hitching body up
Onto staircase, licking footprints of whore-master in dust on steps :

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on landing, standing up : razor held in fist, whore-master, standing
‘on one leg, other folded back, heel pressed against knee of other
leg, disentangling curly hairs over surface of thigh ; Khemissa
shuddering, diving, penis spurring pants, at whore-master, pulling
razor from fist, kneeling, kissing tufts : perfume, taste, of seminal
sweat bathing nostrils, settling on tip of tongue. relaxing boy's
muscles, nerves ; forehead lightening, clothes — pants, jeans.
jacket, espadrilles, Brylcreem — falling away from ripening body ; /
Wazzag, sprawling on hay in shed, clean arse speared by apprentice-
boy's member, head shaking at each spurt. chewing dusty hay ;
under spreading buttocks of apprentice hugged in jeans with fly half-
buttoned, whore’s grimy ochre-coloured balls sweating. gleaming in
hay : hands convulsing, oozing sugar — from body of date-picker —
over wisps of hay, member straining underneath, pressed back
against belly ; licorice-juice flowing from mouth of apprentice onto
honeyed ear of whore ; apprentice, orgasm suspended, weighing
down onto Wazzag, pressing head of whore into hay ; Wazzag
struggling ; quick, strong, rolling over onto back ; apprentice.
member twisted, howling, collapsing, legs spread, onto back, in hay
; Wazzag crouching alongside apprentice, licking cold sweat pearling
on forehead, on navel ; teeth unbuttoning top of fly, pulling apart
flaps of jeans, on one side, other side, of member — throbbing
reddened, resting on elastic of pants ; Wazzag, back struck by
apprentice-boy's fist, burying mouth in pants, sucking up spots of
jissom caught on cotton ; tongue curled back, dripping with saliva.
bringing testicles back under member, gulping, breathing in balls :
snapping up glans from above ; apprentice-boy's hand stroking
vertebrae of back.. « find it.. find it... fetch... fetch.. », Wazzag
shaking muzzle crammed full, pulling at roots, placing arm in slit of
arse, waving arm raised tall over rolling buttocks : jissom spurting
against strangled throat turning sour with anger ; apprentice
standing up, Wazzag swallowing, wiping mouth on wrist : nausea
curving head over hay, Wazzag spitting saliva mixed with blood

apprentice, standing straight, throwing out buttocks.. « dog, lick the

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plate.» Wazzag, chin bathed in pink slaver, standing, sniffing boy's
buttocks, jeans wet with sweat in folds, with jissom on seam under
crotch ; on knees, squeezing loins of apprentice, unbuttoning boy,
sliding jeans down over knees, sniffing at sticky pants, quick strokes
of tongue touching loose cotton over arse.. « too hot ?.. quick...
there's man’s work waiting for me outside. » ; Wazzag's teeth pulling
pants over loins : cotton stuck to skin by hardened jissom, fresh
traces of excrement — Wazzag licking deposits ; cotton, wet, pulling
away ; Wazzag's fists rolling pants under buttocks ; placing lips over
slit of arse lined with dark brown silky down ; Wazzag spreading arse
with hands, jamming muzzle between relaxed buttocks ; eyes closed
buried in fat of buttocks, tongue slipping over encrusted membrane
; apprentice, shaken by laughter — nostrils expelling mucus mixed
with grease —, tightening buttocks over muzzle of whore, bending
down, hand pressed against brick wall, pulling sticky buttock aside
with free hand ; Wazzag, upper rims of ears rubbing over fatty sides
of arse with movement of licking, shooting measured strokes of
tongue into congested opening : gust of wind slamming door against
buttocks, darkness bracing, chilling bodies, tongue contracting :
darkness evaporating, member blooming back, buttocks quivering.
boy's hand covering damp hair of whore ; whore kicking door open
against wind : fire striking sweaty back : in bedroom, across bed,
whore-master, Khemissa, naked, sleeping side by side on bellies :
key of latrine, of box-room, stuck between Khemissa’s buttocks.
oscillating to rhythm of boy's breathing ; on slope of buttocks of
whore-master, transparent film of jissom glimmering between curls /
+ / negroes, masturbated, dozing on sand ; shepherd washing jissom-
Spattered hands in ditch of reddish water ; kneeling, drinking, cheeks
Swelling, spitting out water mixed with jissom, onto sand ; nomad
sitting in pool : sugar crunching between teeth ; sugar swelling
Pockets of sleeping negroes, spots of jissom wetting shorts ; two
twins lying side by side, away from other soldiers : long mottled
members, protruding from shorts, resting on mauve pebbles poking.
Sharp, from sand ; fistful of sugar distending shorts from pocket to

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crotch ; shepherd dipping strip of sacking — hooked onto string
holding ragged robes at waist — into water ; wringing out streaming
tag, rubbing strip between two scorching pebbles, wetting, wringing.
unravelling ; separating rags covering thighs, sheathing member.
balls, slit of arse, with rinsed rag tied back around string, over loins
; nomad standing, shepherd picking up, holding out gandourah in
front of slim body dripping ; nomad emerging from pool, lifting arms.
shepherd rolling gandourah, dressing nomad, gandourah sticking to
body, nomad shivering, shepherd blowing breath, heated by sucking.
over nomad's ear ; twins’ legs quivering on sand, white of nomad's
eye sparkling at edge of amber face : sugar slipping out of pockets
of twins tormented by dreams ; nomad opening mouth, chewing bits
of sugar stuck in gums, clapping hand over shepherd's buttock.
pushing shepherd towards twins, chewing, throat shaken by muffled
laughter, munching, mouth open, sugar running over lower lip :
shepherd approaching twins ; nomad pulling camels up, stuffing
copper beakers into saddle-pack, tying guerbas around flanks of
camels, pulling both animals towards cirque carpeted with pebbles.
with dehorned carcasses ; shepherd crouching near twins, gathering
up sugar-lumps scattered on sand, burying big scaly hand into
pocket of one twin, seizing sugar-lumps ; shifting, crouched, towards
other twin, sucking sugar-lump jammed between teeth, emptying
soldier's pocket ; soldier, awakened by sound of sucking, by rubbing
of fold of shorts against thigh — light brushing of shepherd's hand
in pocket, disturbing, gradual, folds of shorts buried between thighs
under member —, sitting up, grabbing, twisting shepherd's wrist —
crushed sugar scintillating between shepherd's clenched fingers —.
standing up, other fist catching shepherd's ear, spitting black saliva
mixed with tiny bones of leverets into shepherd's face.. « meat for
vulture..» ; soldier pressing bare foot onto bare foot of shepherd.
digging into sand underneath, rubbing heel against shepherd's heel.
twisting ear : shepherd wailing raucous : other twin, woken, sitting
up, one side of face coated with sand.. « Hamza.. look. | twist his ear.
skin stretches on toe, corn twitches on heel.. », shepherd licking wrist

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of soldier pulling ear.. « leech... for you, my jissom, blood of wounded
sheep... for my twin brother, my man-blood spurting under needle,
under prongs of fork.. » ; Hamza, moving behind shepherd, nose
pinched between fingers, grabbing leg, pressing pink palm against
shepherd's heel; twin twisting ear, forearm dripping with sugary
slaver spat by shepherd, shepherd's wrinkled forehead filling out.
hardening ; skin, tough, stretching over jaw, over torso, over hip ;
under soldier's palm, corn on heel trembling ; soldier laughing,
twisting foot ; other soldier pinching skin stretched over cheek,
grabbing shepherd's jaw, hollowing cheeks with fingers, palm
squashing shepherd's nose, squeezing throat : shepherd swallowing
sugar between rotten teeth ; both soldiers palpating limbs of
shepherd, under rags ; shepherd closing mouth ; lips, sugary,
shining : soldier, standing up, stroking creases with damp finger-
nails.. « Hamza.. made to measure, for glans... you, your master, no
love, no food-weight slowing spurts of master’s jissom in your
throat.. » ; Hamza finding flute tied to shepherd's knee, seizing flute,
standing up ; other twin twisting back shepherd's ear, Hamza pointing
flute towards mouth opened in pain, rough breathing of shepherd
forcing note : croaking of flute waking other soldiers : standing up,
members spurring shorts ; breath quavering in pipe ; soldiers
encircling shepherd held down by twins, spreading rags, curved
finger-nails scraping scaly skin of shepherd's loins ; phalanges
tolling over coccyx ; breath moaning in pipe ; twins pushing back
Soldiers ; collaring, rolling shepherd outside circle, onto sand,
feleasing hold, pushing youth, with feet, with tip of charred handle
Picked up beside remains of fire, towards cirque ; nomad, sitting
beside cirque, legs buried in sand mixed with bits of bone, skinning
live lizard : fire burning in crevice of cliff ; shepherd, loins, back,
Powdered with ash, squatting in front of fire, stoking, heaping up
Coals with bare hands ; twins pulling long matches from pockets,
tipping matches into hollow of gandourah : « we rent your akli.. feed
him... after, you get medicine... » ; nomad, flesh of cheeks palpitating,
dermis sliding in transparency under epidermis, seizing, stuffing

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matches into one of leather bags hung around neck, grabbing arm of
shepherd squatting, pushing youth over in sand against knees,
kissing mouth, coating lips with sand, knee goading shepherd up
onto feet, foot driving youth towards twins ; twins gripping shoulders
of youth, fists pummelling fat of buttocks : youth thrown out of
cirque, pushed over in sand, forced to crawl flanked by twins, out
behind camp ; standing up, stepping over barbed wire ; shepherd.
pushed by Hamza shaken by laughter, staggering, barbs catching wet
tag wrapping genital cluster, Hamza striking heavy hand buried in
rags, picking up bludgeon coated with shit thrown out of camp by
fatigue-men, slipping stick between shepherd's legs, squashing
soiled tip against knots of barbed wire, pulling up middle of stick
against slit of arse ; barbed wire tearing rag, scratching shepherd's
testicles ; Hamza, violent, grabbing leg, swinging youth over wire
onto other side ; falling, shepherd letting leg bounce back against
barbs ; Hamza, jumping ; blood spurting along bare leg ; Hamza
throwing sand onto wounds ; twins dragging youth over sand strewn
with rubbish ; Hamza holding flute between teeth ; foot of other twin
pushing open gate of low stable built into skeleton of armoured car
covered with skins, with sheet metal ; twins throwing shepherd onto
straw mixed with crushed colocynth, against flank of cow dozing :
Hamza crouching in front of youth ; twin coming out : Hamza
laughing ; with soiled bludgeon, squashing shepherd's sexual cluster
; shepherd, sprawled over cow, spreading thighs in hay ; Hamza.
purple of laughter flushing ebony cheeks, rolling black balls around
Stick ; cow stretching, hollowing belly, top of shepherd's belly sliding
along cow's belly, back squashing dugs ; Hamza moving stick over
shepherd's torso, digging under ribs, delving into armpits, into
hollow of neck — youth choking, head shaken spitting pink saliva
onto dirt of bludgeon — ; cow throwing head back over neck, tongue
enveloping soiled stick, boy's jaw ; boy turning pale, shaken upright
Coughing, hand pushing stick aside ; fire burning in chest, eyes
fuming, Hamza poking eyes with stick ; shepherd burying face in
cow's belly, stick striking temple ; stretching legs along belly, burying

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bare feet in dewlap, throwing arms around rump ; cow licking wounds
on legs ; youth coughing into coat ; Hamza striking fat of buttocks ;
cow jerking horn against stick ; twin looming, arms holding out pot
with steam hissing over disturbed water bathing all of upper body
gleaming : naked child, tottering, hooked onto leg of twin ; twin
putting pot down on hay ; Hamza grabbing shepherd's neck, pulling
head, holding head over pot, in steam ; twin, pushing shepherd
aside, wedging baby in angle of cow's thigh, gripping, stuffing teat
into baby’s mouth ; crouching, opposite Hamza, blowing onto slop of
beans ; shepherd grabbing handle of pot, plunging muzzle into
steam ; Hamza grabbing shepherd's hair, standing up, dragging
youth by hair, towards back of shelter ; baby suckling, face splashed
with milk ; twins diving at slop, lapping cooled surface, plunging
deeper with cupped hands, lifting moulded lumps to lips ; eyes, lips
of shepherd shining in steamy half-light : slaver drooling over chin ;
shorts of crouching twins sliding over buttocks with swelling of
stomachs filling ; nostrils aspiring beans ; between gulps, rolling onto
backs, pulling members from shorts, aiming, straining towards
shepherd ; shepherd, eyelids trembling over eyeballs, sucking blades
of hay wetted in wounds ; twins, glutted, rolling back against flank of
cow, muzzles splashed with slop, beans squashed at corners of eyes,
Pressed together, joined at hips, lips touching against teat : baby,
Placed by Hamza against animal's arse, head leaning against root of
tail, sleeping, milk drying bluish all over small body quivering ; two
twins laughing, arses slackened, suckling, teeth against teeth, at
Swollen teat ; cheek to cheek, between sucks, pressing buttressed
against cow ; forehead bumping on ground carpeted with soiled
Straw, watching, eyes upside-down under arch of thighs, shepherd
— dozing, seated, head thrown back into hands crossed under nape
i Shepherd, mouths of twins turning back onto teat, walking, on all
fours, towards pot steaming with remains of slop, tongue lolling,
Saliva catching hay-dust ; Hamza's foot overturning pot, heel striking
Shepherd's mouth ; bloody gums chomping, shepherd drawing back
into shadows ; Hamza, hand grabbing hide of rump, hitching up onto

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cow's belly ; rolled onto back, spreading, stiffening legs, pulling
head up onto top of rump, unbuttoning, folding flaps of shorts back
against thighs, pulling out member — glans pinched in seam of
crotch ; member springing out, bouncing from base ; pressed up
against belly, springing back, circumcised flesh pulled towards
middle of shaft ; other twin standing up, leaning against door of
shelter, unbuttoning, letting thin shorts slide down over knees,
stiffening legs, top of nape striking top of door, ringed throat
laughing ; both twins stripped naked, laughter shaking bodies from
top to bottom, expelling snot from slackened nostrils, mouths
hissing, half-open, through foam, goading — bellies rippling, hips
swinging — shepherd looming back out of shadows groping towards
pot ; Hamza, standing up. grabbing hair of shepherd kneeling,
pulling youth, hip striking handle of pot, between straightened legs,
forcing nape, pushing head crowned with acrid hair down between
smooth thighs, striking nape, falling back onto rump of cow ;
Hamza's legs stiffening against shepherd's shoulders : youth,
wrinkles of forehead touching Hamza's belly, opening lips onto
soldier's spongy member, lifting up head — trace of blood marking
place of kiss on member ; shepherd kneeling, blood beating in
temples, taking member in both hands, caressing hardening organ
pulling at balls, one hand closing around imbibed balls, fingers of
other hand, numbed, chapped, pumping erect member swelling
against palm with surge of jissom ; jissom spurting, coating throat.
overflowing at corner of lips ; youth chewing jissom against glans.
pulling member out of mouth, pushing glans into wide snotty nostril.
breath aspiring final filament — running, glans withdrawn, out of
nostril over edge of upper lip ; shepherd licking lips ; Hamza, sated,
drawing legs together ; youth backing off, sneezing, coughing.
coming to rest — knees, fists, on ground — in front of long smooth
legs of other twin, pulling body up along legs, catching, pumping
scalded member, bridled muscles of thigh touching cheek ; alerted
by Hamza standing back up, coming out of shelter, all soldiers.
glutted with stew, shorts pulled up in haste over buttocks spattered

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with flatulent excrement, emerging from siesta, on detachment,
hurrying, naked, half-naked, naked with cartridge-packs hanging
from belts girding loins, shoulders bridled by sub-machine guns,
naked with helmets wrinkled from lying asleep, half-naked with slop
sticking shorts to buttocks, half-naked with torsos perspiring
transparent sweat ; Hamza taking sugar, tobacco, from soldiers’ fists,
pockets. opening door of shelter ; youth, chin bathed in jissom,
gulping down penis of twin ; on upper lip curled back, jissom, mucus,
running together, scintillating ; soldiers jostling Hamza, masturbated
twin, knees, feet pushing youth towards back of shelter ; shoving
unequal organs pell-mell against mouth, into open hands of youth ;
youth, cheeks hollowed by hardened glans of soldiers pressed
together, whole face touched by bundle of members — sucked by
him beside pool, hardened again at dreams in sleep —, eye-sockets
filled, hair rolled back, temples beaten by musky balls, snapping up
glans nearest teeth, pulling out one hand from grip of soldier, fingers
climbing up stiffened leg, catching balls hanging over bare thigh :
member quivering against ear, hand groping between thighs pressed
before face, seizing bunched balls : glans covered by lips, vibrating.
hand of youth enveloping, starting movement to pump juice from
balls dangling over slope of hairy thigh — sand running through dry
curls ; youth sucking, gulping glans into spit-filled mouth ;
circumcised flesh dilating against muscular edges of lips ; glans
jammed against palate, lips slipping over gnarled member ; hand
tightened around balls, sliding up towards root of member : two
fingers squeezing root, lips working on middle of shaft ; sweat
flowing over soldier's thigh, pearling on phalanges, on edge of lips,
of shepherd ; bare legs sliding over ankles, bare thighs, sexual
Cluster of soldier touching toes curled back in kneeling ; soldier,
throwing arms around shepherd's loins, sliding over fat of buttocks,
Pressing bare torso down onto back of youth, squashing balls
against rough toes of him suffocating, squirming, pulling back,
Mouth filled with heavy, pearl jissom — masturbated soldier
Squeezing thigh around mouth distended in front : root of penis,

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under pressure, expelling intermittent jissom spreading in clots over
shepherd's tongue ; shepherd, with jissom-smeared hand — other
hand, opened, crushed, pulled apart, made to touch, palpate, knead.
unsheathe, shake soldiers’ members —, groping for other balls.
eyes closed beneath ardent glans, lips sucking at softened member
of soldier ; blocked between two others, pelvis askew, shorts.
unbuttoned, held up by raised hip, soldier, naked, helmeted, jugular
vein bridling panting throat, masturbating, shoulders compressed,
thrusting ejaculating member against lips of shepherd ; youth — at
contact of sticky flesh — blocking glans of sucked soldier inside
cheek, pulling out tongue, licking member, rammed against cheek, of
soldier with helmet : member discharging, jissom bathing chin of
youth ; helmeted soldier, shoving other soldiers aside, pushing belly
towards shepherd's mouth ; shepherd, with flick of tongue, catching
member in mouth ; soldier, naked, belt strung with chargers, sitting
behind shepherd, pressing member between buttocks — denuded
by rubbing of lower belly — of youth : youth rolling, inside mouth.
against member of masturbated soldier, member — still ejaculating
— of helmeted soldier ; cow, underneath Hamza lying back resting.
eyes half-closed — between legs, stiffened in turn, of
dolichocephalic soldiers, movement of flesh, of skin, sucked.
bridled, swollen, retracted, scintillating from throat, ears, of
shepherd, to torso, of masturbated soldier, to throat, of helmeted
soldier, lower down, level with hay, from breasts, ankles, of belted
soldier, towards lower belly drawn tight in slit of shepherd's buttocks
—, flicking tongue between Hamza’s thighs, delving into skin.
membranes, flaps of shorts, pubic curls, mixed together, stuck with
jissom / .. « Mama President, grant us one fatted calf.. even caked
with shit, riddled with pox, orifices of this precious akli are narrower.
softer than yours, rotting teeth cannot wound our members
unsheathed... costly flesh, for three fistfuls of tobacco, five of
sugar... bubonic flesh... mouth that sucks member of immaculate
lord... 0 Mama President, given to us hungry ones at frontier of great
desert by our President of the river, of the electrified bush... Mama

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President Odalisque, Mistress of Whores...» ; mauve reflection
undulating over sweaty coccyx of helmeted soldier : stiffened for
second orgasm, clasping splayed hands onto shepherd's skull
crowned with glans ; mouth of youth, exposed, two members
removed, invested by other members, tapered, twisted, knotted,

k-marked, smooth ; belted soldier, hitching up body against rump
of shepherd, tipping youth forward, pinning him onto ground,
pressing sweaty body onto boy’s body wrapped in stinking rags,
stiffening high coppery legs, buggering boy ; knees burying into
straw-dust, chargers beating into loins of youth, belt streaming with
sweat, bridling buttocks of buggering soldier ; soldiers kneeling
before head of shepherd ; leaning against straw, lowering bellies
towards dusty skull, pressing straining members towards face
squashed beneath the black stone ; youth, chilling under constricted
lungs. advancing mouth in front of distended cheeks, opening lips,
pressing mouth over glans ; soldiers, thighs, legs, stiffened on one
side, other side of bridled knee, masturbating, discharging between
spreading lips, collapsing on top of two bodies coupled ; soldier
buggering, after three spurts, standing up, shit bubbling at rim of
arse ; stepping over rump of youth, going outside, fiery rays
catching, biting sticky penis ; squatting against barbed wire, behind
mound of swollen tar overlooking incandescent slope of desert ;
excrement bursting under buttocks, belt leashing stomach, member
dangling shit-caked over sand ; with each burst of shit, clot of jissom
expelled by violaceous glans ; on threshold of Morse-room, post-
commander sprawling, thin shorts, shirt, drawn back around navel,
fists lifting up gazelle gorged with concentrated milk, letting animal
fall back, legs flailing, onto swollen belly ; gradual, warmer with each
descent, downy arse of animal touching commander's lower belly,
commander rolling onto one side, hugging gazelle, coat tressed by
Sweat, against chest, raising leg, pushing animal back towards
thighs, gripping upper hind leg behind articulation of knee ; hands
Palpating Muzzle, fingers pressing into ears of animal bleating :
Penis, through shorts, spurring belly, arse of gazelle ; belted soldier

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wiping arse with fingers, rubbing fingers in sand ; vultures, gathered
around pool, snapping up clots of jissom ; soldiers, one by one
coming out of shelter, laughing, goading others forward with knees,
bodies lightened, thighs shining ; inside shelter, two twins, throats
dried by masturbation, suckling, sprawled, fingers interlaced around
teat ; alone, helmeted soldier — helmet slipped down over nape
freeing blue hair —., lying on youth, buggering with powerful thrusts
of pelvis, hair standing in flaming locks swinging shining ; quick
jissom forcing back, in shepherd's corroded arse, excremental gluey
jissom of previous soldier ; laughter overwhelming panting torso .
pot tipped over, shining in straw-dust : shepherd's freed eyes staring
at flow of slop along rim of vessel ; helmeted soldier, head raised
hands crossed flat across nape of youth, whinnying ; shepherd's
buttocks, compressed by soldier's thighs, trembling : during
erection, scaly cuticle sticking to smooth, hairless skin of soldier

pulling apart, after orgasm : sweat of soldier cooling ; soldier
standing up, member unsheathed beating against thigh, lifting up
shepherd's head with foot buried under chin : cheeks of youth.
forehead, hands spread out in hay, drying, turning pale ; eyes
tevulsing ; soldier picking up curry-comb — for stripping sheep —
from hay, crouching down, scraping boy's buttocks, loins, back

abscesses bursting between teeth of comb ; blood flushing
forehead, cheeks, hands of shepherd reddening, grime in fleshy
folds, in wrinkles, shining with sweat ; helmeted soldier tossing away
comb, lifting loins — clot of jissom, expelled from member by
Nervous tension of pelvic muscles, spurting onto soldier's thigh
rolling onto knee —, rising up, legs stiffened, onto sweaty toes
hardening penis, hitching it higher ; spitting, onto head of
resuscitated shepherd, saliva mixed with stew ; youth, at sound of
sucking lips, of erectile muscles around penis, moaning : soldier
spitting ; shepherd burying face inside elbow of bare arm ; Hamza.
shifting pot with tip of foot ; youth raising head, pulling up chest
leaning on fist pressed against ground ; soldier, muscles relaxed
Moving forward, clamping shoulder of shepherd between knees

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uth placing lips — blood flowing back under feverish cuticle —
over soldier's glans, licking film of grimy jissom, eyes closed, legs
pressed beneath buttocks, arse, throat, sticky, shoulders drooping ;
sucking up final thread ; soldier, cheek tipped down against shoulder,
raising hand, finger-nail gathering tear at corner of eyelid ; eyes of
shepherd opening, staring, pale, flecked red, at bloody copper-
coloured eyes of helmeted soldier pressing boy's face against
thighs, letting brown saliva run from half-open mouth, in filament
over shepherd's nape ; Hamza pulling flute — taken from boy —
from pocket, pressing pipe into shorts, between buttocks, twisting
mouthpiece in soiled arse ; straightening up, walking on knees
towards shepherd, grabbing leg of helmeted soldier : «..Assa, you
cook egg and potatoes ? » ; soldier, starting back, detaching glans
from bubonic lips of youth, wiping hair of him dazed by fever, heavy
sigh swelling, hollowing torso : hair, cinders, mixed, frizzing in sweat
between breasts ; shepherd, freed, stretching out arm towards pot :
Hamza springing up, striking boy's wrist with tooth-comb soiled with
pus, diving, on knees, hugging boy from front, mouth open miming,
turned away from poxy face, bites marked on scalp with kisses ;
shepherd drawing lips towards Hamza’s slavering mouth ; Hamza
spitting ; shepherd pulling back spattered lips ; Hamza picking up
fistfuls of hay ; tufts entwined around fingers, fists pummelling boy's
loins, digging into fat of buttocks : wet rag — pulled away from arse
by soldiers —, wrung in fist, discharging load of spent jissom ;
Hamza, drawing away from shepherd, straightening up, leaning back,
standing against door opened back : helmeted soldier squatting
beside petrol-tank, shitting in sand, eyes closed, pubis, lower belly.
thighs exhausted, penis mangled — in front of excremental ditch,
wide body of woman moulded in sand by soiled fingers of soldiers,
Clots of jissom superimposed on belly of figure ; Hamza
Masturbating, flute whistling ; jissom spurting, drowning trill ;
shepherd aspiring spurts of jissom running in shaken tube ; member
dried out, Hamza abandoning shepherd ; shepherd standing up.
“ping rags — in hay, rags torn during buggery from loins, from

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buttocks, lying stuck together, among jissom-smeared sheaves :
Hamza, other twin, jumping up, grabbing shoulders, pushing boy
outside, clenched fists sliding over buttocks shining with jissom, with
pus ; beside barbed wire, lying youth down in sand ; each holding
one ear, squatting, shitting, on one side, other side, of poxy head :
in cirque, throwing youth, covered in sand, at feet of nomad ; nomad.
tearing roast lizard between teeth — veil wrapping lips soiled with
cinders, with grease —, cramming tail, feet, into shepherd's mouth
; Hamza, running back to camp, crossing through bunk-house packed
with simmering bodies, naked, half-naked, sprawled out away from
incandescent partitions, opening bag, taking out vaporizer of Eau de
Cologne, stuffing bottle into pocket, running back in long strides.
tunning back towards cirque : nomad, lizard devoured, wiping lips
with strip of veil spread over shepherd's chest ; shepherd seated
between thighs of nomad, crunching scales of lizard’s tail, claws —
tongue of youth emerging, thick, between teeth, to lick greasy
fingers of nomad ; Hamza crouching down, breathless, vaporizing.
between thighs of shepherd, rag sheathing sexual cluster ; nomad
wrenching vaporizer from Hamza's fist, caressing blue bottle, grey
bulb, vaporizing skull of shepherd huddled against chest, placing
lips bridled by veil onto perfumed skull ; beneath rag, shepherd's
member twitching, stiffening ; nomad laying hand over shepherd's
sexual cluster : abscesses bursting with hardening of flesh

shepherd lifting up head turned back, drawing mouth towards
nomad's bridled lips ; nomad flinging head back, squeezing fingers
over hardened member of shepherd, through rag ; fingers moving
down onto slope of thigh ; on contact with oozing groin, recoiling :
twins, bellies bridled, throats nauseous, arses, members exuding
sticky sweat, standing aside; heads turned back steaming at edge of
cirque, gaze piercing, through haze of incandescence, golden blood-
flecked eyes of shepherd smeared with dirt ; at movement of lips
enveloping, sucking charred head of lizard, twins’ members
stiffening inside shorts ; crouching back down near barbed wire.
shitting again onto imprint of youth's body dragged over sand :

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ung nomad leaning against gate of camp, opposite pool, holding
his akli by shoulder ; twins, shit greasing chafed buttocks, trampling
‘on sand ; nomad bending down, face bridled, gripping leg of youth,
caressing wounds, lifting up denuded leg, blowing onto bleeding
heel. letting go of leg, standing in front of youth, thrusting long
smooth hand between thighs, pulling aside, with fist, rag covering
member, grabbing embalmed sexual cluster, pressing organs back
against belly, finger-nails catching raw membranes ; shepherd raising
extended thigh ; eyes rolling under pock-marked eyelids ; Hamza
undoing shorts, folding back flap over thigh, thumb of nomad
touching literacy-medal pinned inside cloth ; Hamza unhooking
medal, pressing disc into nomad’s hand ; nomad fixing medal onto
veil bridling eyes ; pushing shepherd outside camp ; Hamza, other
twin, shoulders joined, squatting, drinking from trough in long
draughts, sprinkling whole bodies with red water from hose-pipe held
in hands ; standing up, streaming, each diving at other, hugging,
falling, rolling in sand, slumping down, each squeezing each other's
stiffened member, biting foreheads, crawling, stuck together, sand
covering bare shoulders, head shaken in kiss : skull, ears, scarified
throat, nape, marked by mesh of hamac ; Hamza’s fists digging into
sand under belly, delving into sand-filled shorts of twin ; Assa
emerging from bunk-house, naked, helmeted ; mauve feet grinding
into burning sand ; sand caught on streaks of jissom over thighs,
Streaks of shit on fat of buttocks ; other soldiers jostling behind,
members stiffened naked, stiffened inside shorts, stiffened inside
Pants ; gripping fat of Assa’s buttocks ; nomad, shepherd, pressed
Close to camels, drawing away distant, bowed beneath wind, nomad,
Medal glimmering on veil between eyes, vaporizing skull, thighs,
buttocks of youth, exposed with each gust of wind // whore-master
Standing beside bed, dry jissom sparkling over bridled skin,
trampling Khemissa’s clothes underfoot, sliding big toe of raised foot
through tear in jeans, on outer edge of back pocket, pressing toes
against seam of crotch, tip of foot catching pants stuck to jeans,
Pulling pants out of jeans ; lifting up leg, grabbing pants in fist ;

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meanwhile, Khemissa moaning — growling in throat, lips releasing
drop of foam onto sheet —, asleep, tightening buttocks around key.
whore-master slipping boy's pants on : hem of pants rubbing into
secretions of thigh-joint ; whore-master squashing hardened penis
against thigh, cotton soaking up moisture of sexual cluster
stimulated by successive scrutinization — loins arched, fingers
spread over hips — of Khemissa's smooth flattened buttocks.
smooth rosy cheeks ; member spurring pants, glans pressed back
against cotton, approaching bed, leaning over Khemissa, projecting
heat of thighs onto naked body, light hand turning key in boy's arse
; boy jumping, hip striking engorged member of whore-master.
rolling over onto back, raising knee, cheek streaked with foam.
towards master's member, knee touching testicles drawn out of
buttressed pants ; laugh exploding, shaking boy’s torso ; eyes buried
in cheeks creased with laughter, fixing eyes of whore-master, oblique
under shading lashes, pulling key out from under genital cluster :
whore-master leaning forward, squatting down, mouth drawn forward
level with Khemissa's belly ; boy spreading fingers over master's lips
; trembling laughter — breath of whore-master bathing hips, side of
belly — freeing, at tip of member, drops of urine held back after
buggery by whore-master, during sleep ; drops rolling over downy
slope of thigh ; whore-master, slipping arm under shoulders bathed
in sweat beneath sheet, standing, pulling Khemissa up squeezing
sexual cluster, still sticky, in fist ; whore-master hugging boy from
behind, pushing boy along balmy bed to window ; one hand sliding
pants down over thighs, other enclosing hand of boy — holding
penis swollen with urine ; Knemissa, hand pressed by whore-master's
fingers, releasing contracted bladder ; master sliding erect penis
between boy's buttocks ; urine, jissom, spurting ; all muscles of legs
pressed together, relaxing ; whore-master thrusting mouth into
Khemissa’s wavy hair, hand groping at testicles ; in palm of master's
hand, boy's member emptying : arched stream drilling into sand
beside butcher's lad shitting ; apron-string trailing in excrements

burning stream splashing bare foot of lad, head raised, sniffing back

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sandy snot ; tongue emerging from mouth : red turd emerging from
arse ; whore-master kissing Khemissa’s laughing torso : sand drawn
up towards glans along erect member of butcher's lad ; turd staying
stuck in arse ; lad flinging head to one side, shaking loins, moaning,
biting shoulder, straining : arse dried out by wind : thumping
buttocks, turd swinging, sticking to coccyx ; black child, naked,
pulling metal cart over sand : Shell oil-drum mounted on wheels, lad
throwing coin before feet of boy, presenting soiled buttocks ; child
dropping toy, squatting in front of buttocks, scraping turd with both
hands interlaced ; lad taking another coin from pocket of bloody
shirt, throwing coin over shoulder, onto sand, child covering coin with
foot ; turd sliding over sand, another, embedded with tiny crushed
bones, emerging from arse, child leaning cheek onto knee, grabbing,
pulling turd towards sand ; opening hand under arse of lad ; lad
straining : sweat diffusing blood of butchery over wrinkles of tense
forehead ; child shaking hand under arse, gnashing teeth ; butcher's
lad, arse closed back tight, refreshed, standing up, knee pushing
away child grasping flaps at front of jeans ; buttoning up ; child
biting coins, wiping hands on wall of brothel ; butcher's lad, heavy
buttocks packed into jeans, walking towards wall soiled by hot stream
from Khemissa, pulling head up towards bedroom ; Khemissa, shaken
by whore-master’s violent discharge, clapping splayed fingers over
damp thighs ; sweat running through black pubic fleece ; whore-
Master's arms squeezing boy's torso ; whore-master's hip hollowing,
Swelling, against boy's loins ; butcher's lad licking traces of urine
stream from wall, standing up on toes ; Khemissa pulling member
down towards lad's spreading lips ; sharper discharge from whore-
Master flinging Khemissa forwards, glans touching lips of butcher's
lad ; lad wrapping glans in tongue ; thighs of Khemissa quivering
against sill ; whore-master pulling Khemissa inside ; lad pressing
tongue against imprint of Khemissa's thighs on adobe ; master,
Member floundering in Khemissa’s jissomy arse, pushing boy, foot
against foot, towards staircase : downstairs, butcher's lad, apron
rolled up, twisted in open-necked shirt, hands on hips, loins arched,

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legs spread, dense woolly hair peppered with small bones, scraps of
nerve fibre, of shaken flesh, thrusting violaceous member forward
sand sparkling on glans, out of unbuttoned fly ; whore-master
pulling out penis, pushing Khemissa down onto staircase, jissom
flowing over legs of boy ; Khemissa, shivering, sitting on step, head
torso turned towards wall, ridge of step separating sticky buttocks

butcher's lad, swinging penis in hand, placing foot on first step

whore-master wiping jissomy member on hooked index ; lad raising
legs, placing foot on second step, curving torso over knee —
stiffened member drawing back at crotch, pulled by movement of
thigh —, bloody hand reaching out towards Khemissa’s buttock.
seizing, lifting fat, eyes narrowing in head falling back over shoulder
feeling flesh, delving beneath, groping around sexual cluster

grasping, at same time, Khemissa's tobacco-coloured hair, kissing
boy's face thrown back, kissing mouth, lips spread gathering frothing
saliva ; lips of lad stroking forehead, roots of hair, hand, loins.
Khemissa letting body slide down, legs spread, to bottom of stairs

flat of buttocks touching ground, dry jissom sparkling on hardened
balls ; foetid body of butcher's lad, jissom circulating pumping blood
in lips, crouching, leaning over languid body of Khemissa sated .
propped against wall of passage opposite latrine, Wazzag, lips
soiled, scraping at lump of hardened jissom under left breast

apprentice stepping down from latrine, penis dangling out of jeans

hands splashed with urine slicking back hair ; movement of arms
lifting flaps of denim jacket, uncovering fatty folds of hips over top
of jeans ; Wazzag drawing apprentice close, pulling at jeans

buttoning fly spotted with minium, pulling jeans up above waist
palms covering compressed buttocks, stroking till jissom, smeared
over buttocks, soaks through denim ; finger-tips grinding into gluey
spots ; apprentice arching loins, taking wide head of whore between
palms, squashing, wiping. over forehead, his lips. nostrils blocked
with snot ; Wazzag, palms massaging sticky buttocks of apprentice
panting, licking, aspiring snot ; bitter fluid running from forehead
sticking to eyebrows of whore ; butcher's lead lying, fully dressed

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over Khemissa, turning boy over onto belly ; bloody apron covering
Khemissa’s back, nape ; apprentice, jeans stuck to skin, advancing
towards counter ; Wazzag wiping hands at hips, leaning in corner of
ge ; apprentice, stopped in middle of room, fingering spongy
flesh between thighs ; butcher's lad aroused by Wazzag's odour,
rearing up, fist squashing flat of Khemissa’s buttocks, swinging
around, diving, member pointing stiff, onto Wazzag, hugging whore
from behind, panting, snarling, against wall flecked with saltpetre ;
Wazzag, head bent down into fleshy folds of neck, licking fingers
interlaced under breasts : regular strokes of tongue on phalanges,
between fingers, on nails : saltpetre sprinkling in powder over shaken
hair ; testicles of lad hanging cold over fat of Wazzag's buttocks ;
apprentice picking up twin, wiping, with flaps of denim jacket,
buttocks soiled with sticky dust, marked on top by imprint of lad’s
bloody fist ; whore-master throwing down Khemissa’s clothes from
top of stairs ; turning back seam of pants — slipped on back to front
—, against lower belly ; pubic fleece showing bluish through knit of
cotton ; whore-master stroking luxury label ; Khemissa dressing, over
naked loins ; Khemissa's twin, denim stuck smooth against buttocks,
thin fold bordering edge of arse, smoking cigarette between lips
soiled with snot ; thumbs stuck in jeans, over fly ; smoke enveloping
slimy head ; butcher's lad greasing Wazzag ; whore-master snapping
elastic of pants against belly : «.. | keep this for payment... my
intended, come back quick, let these pants squeeze our thighs
together, our buttocks, our members... my whore, | will give you back
your prize on feast days.. go... let your juices seep from bare flesh..»
i whore-master going back to bed, stretching out on belly, exhaustion
Of buggery bringing sleep ; apprentice moving over to wall, grabbing
Wazzag’s chin, butcher's lad thrusting knee into thigh ; Wazzag,
quick, Stroking hip of apprentice; butcher's lad spitting into
apprentice’s ear, bloodshot eyes of lad piercing eyes, veiled, drowsy,
Of apprentice ; «.. leave the bitch, she's mine... my turn to
Slaughter... she's under my spell... offers her throat.. | knew her from
start... fed her with thorns from steppes... tongue still torn to

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shreds...» ; Wazzag keeping scarred tongue inside mouth ;
apprentice shifting hip to one side : « go upstairs, bring back my
brother's luxury prize...» ; butcher's lad grabbing jacket of
apprentice ; apprentice, squashing glowing tip of cigarette against
sticky buttocks, pulling lad’s fist away ; lad’s member retracting in
Wazzag's arse ; violent lurch pulling member out ; apprentice
leaping, forcing butcher's lad onto knees, laying boy out on ground.
fist pressed against nape ; Wazzag running off, climbing up to
bedroom, leaning over whore-master sleeping, pinching pants
against loins, pulling down towards legs ; butcher's lad, standing.
striking member of apprentice, jumping forward, spinning around to
face apprentice, leaning back against latrine, unrolling apron, pulling
up cloth in front of torso, springing forward ; apprentice bearing
down, fists between thighs ; flinging apron into face ; Wazzag, pulling
pants over top of legs, slipping hand under whore-master’s belly.
pulling out member ; Wazzag stroking nape, hair, of whore-master
growling ; Khemissa, dressed, nibbling pomegranate left on counter
by Khamssieh, fist closed around chunk bitten out by Khamssieh .
Wazzag clasping pants in fist, kissing luxury label, lifting leg. slipping
pants on, crouching down, rummaging in master's possessions piled
in corner on floor, pulling out broken mirror — high in deserted
brothel on stormy evenings over steppes, his shivering dogs
smeared with stale jissom pacing through saloon under wavering
light, whore-master examines downy underside of his sexual cluster
pressed up over lower belly — ; tipping mirror against thigh, under
clothed sexual organs ; laughing ; holding mirror behind, label
sprouting, frayed, over skin of buttock ; butcher's lad wrapping head
of apprentice in bloody apron, apprentice howling ; Wazzag throwing
mirror onto pile, going back down into saloon ; buttocks quivering.
hugged in cotton ; at bottom of stairs, rubbing thighs on cotton.
pulling pants up over navel, raising leg. grabbing foot, rubbing horny
skin against sexual cluster tucked inside cotton ; Khemissa coming
forward, teeth catching pomegranate, striking belly of whore with
both fists, thrusting leg forward, pulling pants down — toes caught

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under elastic ; pomegranate falling inside denim jacket buckled
beneath ribs : «... dog, give back my prize.. man’s arse is all your
clothes.» ; Wazzag bent over, taking off pants ; Khemissa taking
ts from Wazzag's hand ; Wazzag leaning on wall, stroking thighs,
sexual cluster, buttocks ; Khemissa stuffing pants into pocket ;
butcher's lad, apprentice, heads covered, wrestling against door of
latrine, hands on necks, knees knocking; lad’s member retracted
rigid, poking out of bloody jeans, curving back against fly of
apprentice ; falling back onto ground, fists striking faces ; Wazzag
approaching, two youths standing up, jostling around whore, panting,
Wazzag grabbing members, naked inside jeans ; muscles relaxing,
breath mixing over throat of whore : « keep the bitch...», apprentice,
breathing in long draughts, pulling Wazzag's hand from crotch,
slicking back hair wet with sweat : «.. in exchange, cut us two kids’
hearts for this evening...» ; apprentice walking away, hand on
Khemissa's shoulder, rushing twin towards door, turning slimy latch :
«., exhaust the bitch... you have your knives... | have my mallets, my
hammers.» ; outside .. two twins, stuck together, kissing on mouth,
bodies arched in flying sand ; naked black child abandoning toy on
slope of dune strewn with bones, with excrements, approaching
youths, picking up fistful of sand, rubbing sticky buttocks of
apprentice ; warm sand adhering to denim, absorbing jissom ; child
tubbing seam of crotch ; apprentice biting Khemissa's mouth, two
twins mixing saliva ; buttocks of apprentice, squeezed in jeans,
founding out, wet sand sliding down legs, child scraping remaining
film of jissom with finger-nails ; apprentice taking coin out of back
Pocket of jeans pressed under child's palm, throwing money onto
sand ; child fetching coin with tip of foot, kicking into air, catching in
shining hand ; Wazzag returning, standing against saltpetred wall ;
butcher's lad, muscles again tensing, wiping sweaty forehead with
flap of apron ; one hand separating buttocks of whore, thumb spread
index in gluey curls ; bringing swollen penis forward, digging

Nn buttocks, pulling out, turning away from whore, going into

Pen latrine, pissing hard, hot, coming out of latrine, pressing

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splashed legs against legs of Wazzag, seizing fleshy folds around
loins of whore propped on one hip while worker pissing, twisting
apron in shirt, thumb scraping jissom clogging fleece around
Wazzag's arse, positioning marbled member in arse, shaking hand.
pressing finger against lips of whore, to lick ; club-foot, stirring in
bolted latrine ; butcher's lad labouring over haunches of whore.
cheek to cheek, tongue protruding, Sticky with saliva bitter with gall,
licking Wazzag's fat dried lips : «.. you're my second beast this
morning.. first one a calf.. took my time killing it...», Wazzag's eyes
palpitating under palm of hand : «.. right front hoof twitched against
my bare foot. », knees of lad striking Wazzag's hams, hot jissom,
expelled, burning in loins of whore ... «, under shock of mallet.
feathered head, covered in dew, sliding over my belly, catching on
jeans, muzzle bleeding in my cupped hand.. branded ewes, kids
bleating in darkened yard... free flocks rolling between walls of
streaked adobe... my member stiffens, pressed bare against neck of
calf...» ; whore-master rolling moaning on bed : « butcher.. whore-
master... your bitch feels love for me... tail, arm wrapping around my
arse.. nose spitting out love-snot.. », jissom overflowing, oozing back
from arse after fourth discharge, running down legs, flowing over
hams ; heel ; Wazzag's feet, feet of butcher's lad, bathing in jissom
lad grabbing ears of whore, stiffening, labouring, discharging,
member buried in tangle of jissomy curls : «... my bare feet paddling
in blood of calf... butcher, whore-master, for you : earth, water, flesh
jissom, meat, blood, for you : dung, eggs, hay... nomad, bury your
excrement... whore, hold back your jissom... cattle, flee... » ; rough
tongue of lad undulating over Wazzag's shoulder ; bushy hair.
shaken, sweeping over nape, over cheek of whore, hand playing with
whore’s sexual cluster ; whore tipping head sideways, muscled neck
nibbled by lad's rotten teeth, breaking into sharp bursts of rough
laughter, arching back, hollowing sweaty rump, leaning on one hip —
lad's penis slipping out of arse —, flinging hands behind lad's body
— hands gripping buttocks, nails hooked onto seam of crotch, seam
of back pocket of jeans, drawing lad close against simmering body

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straightening hips ; member of lad, excited by pressure of hands, by
nails of whore stroking jeans, swelling, poking back into Wazzag's
arse — jissom streaming over relaxed legs, run out as Wazzag pulled
dreamy lad up against own body, uncoupled ; dripping over curls on
sides of buttocks, gluing folds of jeans onto lad’s thighs ; wrinkles
of member smoothing out with pressure of jissom, fist bowing
Wazzag's nape ; whore, torso inclined, hands pressed against knees,
bumping forehead onto saltpetred wall ; butcher's lad thumping fists
into articulation at middle of Wazzag’s body, into folds of groin, body
beating against haunches of whore ; wet friction of jeans on coccyx
of lad, trace of excrement melting in red sweat ; long orgasm
narrowing, veiling eyes, trembling torso jumping in jerks ; hands of
Wazzag covering damp convulsive hands of lad, hooked onto belly ;
butcher's lad stiffening legs, rubbing thighs against buttocks of
whore, all of frenzied body contracting ; toe-nails, bending back
against those of Wazzag, scratching : short fluid spurt from glans
expelling deposit of previous discharge, clearing duct charged with
heavy jissom ; Wazzag, wrinkles over square forehead rolling under
brown curls pressed back streaked with saltpetre, sniffing up
apprentice’s snot ; hands of sated butcher's lad palpating belly,
fingers pulling at pubic fleece ; whore-master, returned downstairs,
sliding fingers into back pocket of lad’s jeans, pulling ; at same time,
Shaking shoulder, slipping hand over Wazzag's buttocks, between
two bodies enrobed in sweat — cold : butcher's lad, warm : Wazzag
— Pressing at root of lad's member, bitter breath bathing ear of lad
+ eulet go, little killer,... how many times, Wazzo?..» ; whore, head
against wall, stamping on ground, eight times :.. « eight livers for my
dogs, little killer, with cartilage, with guts... » ; whore-master's thumb
flicking Out penis of butcher's lad ; Wazzag, uncoupled, edging along
wall, towards latrine : stepping inside ; legs spread, member
bouncing against thighs, pissing, soft, in dank darkness, saltpetre

ling over neck, heel slapping in jissom on foot-slab ; whore-master
Seing into second latrine, pulling away plate beside club-foot's feet
# bits of egg squashed over mouth, shitting, contracted buttocks

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raised over edge of hole, foot jammed against ridge of foot-slab
Wazzag, downy knee streaming with piss, emerging, moving towards
butcher's lad leaning — legs spread, penis drooping over jeans —
against dirt-spattered wall ; apron rolled up, twisted, bulging under
bloody shirt ; Wazzag — whore-master picking up plate licked clean
— seizing member of lad ; other hand grabbing balls through jeans
; laughing, palpating ; butcher's lad, head tipped onto shoulder.
moaning, legs stiffening ; Wazzag pumping slimy member, crouching
licking, pumping ; member softened, lad relaxing muscles ; whore-
master emerging from latrine ; Wazzag rising, chest swelling
touching chest of butcher's lad through sweaty shirt, pushing lad’s
member back into fly, buttoning jeans, pulling twisted apron out of
shirt, smoothing, spreading apron over front of lad’s body, pushing
stiffened penis over to one side of apron stitched in rough-cut skin
in sackcloth ; whore-master putting plate on zinc counter ; Wazzag
pecking kiss at dried mouth of butcher's lad ; lad holding back vomit
— whore pressing lips onto those, pinched together convulsive, of
lad ; whore-master grasping Wazzag's hair, drawing whore close
knee pushing forward towards garden ; Wazzag, bloody body bitten
by rays of fire, sprawling in burying sand, hitching up head towards
shifting shadow of tamarisk ; butcher's lad sliding down wall ; whore-
master catching boy under armpits, standing body straight, turning
on tap, wetting hand in jet, gathering water in hand, splashing lad's
forehead ; lad sniffing up droplets, coughing, spitting phlegm onto
wall pulling away from whore-master, tying apron around loins

Wazzag quivering, standing facing light at threshold of garden.
upright, in front of passage, sand running over slimy skin, pink glans
vibrating at tip of hardened member, against coppery-black surface
of belly ; smile wandering, transparent under amber skin of cheeks
of forehead, of lips ; behind, on tarmac beyond barrier bordering
garden, bevy of women walking against wind, jewels clinking under
folds — scarlet, mauve — of black gandourahs ; carrying bundles
of green wheat, barley, on shoulders, against breasts, laughing

Wazzag, lips spreading, tossing back head ; with amber hand, downy

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above, smooth pink beneath, stroking member, balls, eye drawn
white towards women ; butcher's lad coming outside ; whore-master
approaching, turning around whore ; Wazzag's drawn gaze deviated
by approaching rotations of whore-master ; hip brushing against hip
of whore, against hand, against scabs of dried blood on rump,
whore-master :.. « .. shake your hair, your head, body, groin, brows,
lashes. ears, fingers.. » ; Wazzag shaking whole body, raising arm,
blowing down under armpits, up into eyes, flicking at pubic fleece,
spreading fingers, shaking hand, spreading buttocks, bending over,
slipping thumb into slit of arse : «... leave that... adults, babies, eggs,
all drown down there.. », straightening up, dried blood crumbling
over loins : «... remove aprons from butchers... you stink of calf’s
blood.. what is grease to date-picker, date-sugar to lubricator, blood
spurted from your lips, your nostrils?.. no man wants blood of
butcher's shop, unless boiled,.. not even hospital boy » ; whore-
master slapping palms, wrinkled in sleep, against flat of whore's
buttocks, Wazzag pressing lips towards neck — downy in hollow
between muscles —, eye fixed on pink lips of women : «.... drain all
jissom from their men, drillers of Amguid... arrived from desert this
Morning, unloading equipment at water-tower... getting paid...
covered with dust, muscles hardened, clothes steeped in sweat, they
tush to brothel, jump on you... five men... belly-muscles hardened by
handle of pneumatic drill... they fuck lying down... I've only you and
club-foot to serve them... », whore-master fondling fat of Wazzag's
buttocks, coccyx, bottom of hips, fingers brushing over mark from
elastic of pants ; blood bubbling in throat of whore ; whore-master
Pinching mark : « ... my jissom resting in his loins ; awake, asleep, my
stiffened member has been in his pants... I'll feed him liver... » ;
whore-master going up stairs, into bedroom, crouching under gas-
fing, opening green plastic bucket, pulling out in handfuls scraps of
boiled meat : cartilage, guts, in pink mass swelling transparent
Plastic ; Wazzag springing onto staircase, edging — slow, simmering
_~ along bedroom wall, over to encrusted gas-ring ; slaver frothing
at comers of lips ; whore-master plunging scraps back into stew,

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pulling, lifting basket against chest, going down stairs ; hitched up
on sweaty toes, blaze of hair skin eyes nails body-hair reinforced
curves of cheeks shoulders chest buttocks hams shaped afresh
capturing all light, Wazzag, standing in front with head turned back
quivering, eyes fixed on tepid mass slopping, held against whore-
master’s chest ; master placing bucket in front of bolted latrine
moving away : Wazzag, whimpering, crouching, plunging head into
bucket, lapping up stew ; teeth catching on meaty bone ; face rising
smattered with juice, bone held up against nostrils ; plunging back
down ; Wazzag, spitting out bone, gobbling soft meat, cartilage
broken by cooking, swallowing chunks unchewed ; gulping.
swallowing ; muscles of neck, stiffened, dilating under pressure of
pieces swallowed ; top of belly hollowing, bottom swelling ; pushing
bone aside with muzzle, snuffling meaty juices ; whore’s member.
softened, bouncing on thighs, hands trembling on rim of bucket

whore-master pulling at hips of whore, grasping hair, neck, pulling

Wazzag growling, gravy drowning cry ; whore-master seizing
shoulders, knee striking small of back, stroking nape ; on wall
mucus of butcher's lad dripping ; on ground, jissom spreading out
drying ; whore-master, Wazzag's mouth growling against arm, pulling
meaty bone from bucket, holding bone between fingers above mouth
of Wazzag rearing up on haunches, rounded buttocks pressed firm
against heels ; tongue of whore touching bone ; whore-master letting
bone drop, Wazzag catching morsel between teeth, crouching, sidling
along wall to garden ; leaning back against tamarisk, nibbling bone
tearing, swallowing meat, neck thrown back — smooth, straining
spurred at top by swallowed lump ; shambling across garden ; whore-
master opening latrine, placing bucket on foot-slab ; club-foot
straightening up, pulling up scrap of pink meat rimmed with fat.
lifting fist over face flung back, juicy scrap of meat trailing over lips
: sucked into mouth ; whore-master lifting leg ; toes stroking club-
foot's straining neck, jamming neck into corner ; body suffocating -
scrap of meat, half-swallowed, not chewed, obstructing gullet .
whore-master grabbing hair of choking boy, bowing head towards

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hole, placing foot over meat-scrap trailing with one end stuck to layer
of excrement, pushing head of body back up, into corner ; scrap of
meat emerging, dripping with slaver ; body panting, catching scrap
_— still stuck to chin — between teeth, sucking, swallowing ; whore-
master pulling meat from mouth, scrap coiling up in hole ; body
heaving, pressing back into corner ; whore-master lifting bucket,
opening mouth in view of body, tipping bucket towards fat lips of
body ; lips opening, master pouring meat-juice, in small doses ; eyes
of body, after each mouthful, looking up, shining ; lid of bucket
beating against throat ; Wazzag sitting cross-legged on hay, in shed
— acid odour of apprentice lingering —. nibbling at bone, sniffing
at pockets of air embalmed with jissom, with minium, tearing meat
from bone : all around, in shifting hay, jissom dripping mixed with
dust, with sand ; Wazzag's piglets grunting in shed, his birds, driven
up into beams during coupling, drawn by smell of meat, perching on
shoulders ; member, stiffening at din of club-foot choking, bouncing
back over heels pressed together : pinching balls between hard
sticky corns ; club-foot, belly bloated, rising up, positioning feet on
foot-slab, crouching ; whore-master holding lightened bucket against
chest, closing door ; excrement bursting shiny pink, burying
disgorged meat-scrap in hole ; whore-master carrying bucket back
up to bedroom ; Wazzag stuffing bone into saltpetred hole of wall,
standing up, wiping hands on hips ; women wandering over tarmac ;
Wazzag approaching, pressing swollen belly against trellis, slipping
member between two strips of reed, panting : women turning back ;
one girl, shaved head unveiled, cheeks reddened with henna, black
breasts pressed against neck-line of open gandourah, throwing body
against trellis, bending, hairs glistening under armpits, gripping
bundle of barley, propped against fence ; Wazzag's arm hugging.
Pulling girl against body half hidden by trellis : member swelling cut

een strips, whole mouth kissing lips, ears, neck, breasts, of
shaved girl ; girl held at waist, struggling, spitting, toes hollowing
Sand, bending sharp tips of reeds against Wazzag’s bloated belly ;
ther women, seated on sand, languid, rolling onto sides ; rumps

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rounding under black dresses ; lying on sand propped up on elbows.
fists creasing cheeks, pouring sand over breasts ; in trees, thorns
pricking flowers in wind : Wazzag groaning ; member reddening.
pinched ; hands, jerking, stroking loins of shaved girl ; girl
undulating against trellis ; Wazzag, head buried in breasts, moaning
; shaved girl pressing chin onto Wazzag's nape, rubbing chin, hands
stroking hips of whore, fingers pinching, rolling up gandourah.
sliding against trellis ; veins palpitating on skull ; elbows squeezing
rolled-up gandourah against hips, hands pulling reeds apart :
Wazzag's member retracting into pubic fleece ; hands of shaved girl
releasing reeds, pushing back Wazzag's belly, lifting arms from waist
; Wazzag hitching up onto heels, forehead jammed against simmering
breasts ; softened penis opening violaceous over top of reeds.
swelling towards exposed belly of woman ; woman, mauve skull
gleaming under fiery rays, drawing back, Wazzag's slimy hair sliding
over neckline of gandourah ; Wazzag, sweat sticking curls to
forehead, sniffing, head dropped relaxing legs, settling heels into
sand, crossing thighs over smarting penis ; woman grabbing bundle.
running off, green barley waving behind head ; Wazzag lifting leg
over trellis ; balls, exposed, glistening pink ; drowsy women rolling
gandourahs up over knees ; Wazzag straddling trellis, pressing
buttocks against reeds ; women, breathing curling back ochre lips
striking foreheads over sand ; Wazzag stepping forward ; sand kicked
up sticking to hams, member stiffening, pointing ; approaching
crouching in front of women ; member swelling along folded leg

scent opening women's nostrils ; Wazzag kneeling, leaning over sand
on elbows, bumping curly-fringed forehead against foreheads of
women, lifting leg over croup of woman with bracelets clinking

woman catching knee, stroking curls of thigh ; whore placing leg
onto woman's croup, foot delving, through heated black cloth, into
cleft of buttocks ; woman's breasts, swollen, bulging over neckline

hand, mauve above, ochre beneath, moving along Wazzag's thigh, up
to tangle of long supple shiny hairs merging into curly fluff on thigh
; thumb, pink nail pitted, pressing into groin, slipping along seam of

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thigh. scraping sweat mixed with jissom, hay, grease, date-sugar, shit
; Wazzag thrusting mouth onto woman's lips, drawing belly close to
woman's, other knee digging down, elbow vibrating in sand ; young
woman with shaved scalp leaning against thorn-tree, bundle of green
barley perched in crotch of trunk, bending branch towards mouth ;
cheeks swollen, lips sucking yellow fruit-flowers ; eyes staring,
through arms of women interlaced, at Wazzag’s member swelling in
jerks. at sweat rising over coccyx of whore ; lips throbbing, nostrils
inhaling sugary pollen ; nipples, dilated, pulling arms from cloth ;
free hand stroking nipples ; croup rounding out against bark ; hams,
heels lifted, scraping trunk ; ; wind carrying birds dirtied in dust-
bins, towards high sandy enclaves ; ; women separating foreheads,
standing up, swinging bundles over shoulders ; Wazzag grasping
bare feet, biting bottom of dresses ; women running off, cloth
tustling over heated bodies, throwing — bending, standing erect.
bending — burning pebbles at Wazzag ; Wazzag running, lame —
nerve strained while raising leg over woman's, croup, tender from
continuous forced erections —, member pointing stiffened, towards
women, fingers catching pebbles embalmed in painted hands...
«...back, jissom-eater.. back, back, jissom-eater.. jissom-eater, man-
eater... baby-eater.. back, baby-eater... dogs that make us widows, in
our prime... little husbands, drill his loins to the heart...», women,
hair shaken, green barley whipping cheeks, one hand hitching cloth
over thighs glistening along prismatic ridge of femurs up to groins,
moaning, pressing pebbles over vulvas ; Wazzag jumping up, darting
through volley, springing onto shaved girl, hugging girl : bundle
tumbling ; girl's hand tremulous placing pebble over exposed vulva :
Wazzag's violaceous penis scorched, quick sizzle ; women encircling
Wazzag, seizing arms, legs, jaw, hair, pushing whore back over sand
towards fence of brothel ; Wazzag pulling back, hitching whore by
€ars, onto broken trellis ; crying in throat ; shaved girl holding fat of
Wazzag's buttocks, pushing at coccyx : .. «.. back into your sty,
Swine..» ; hands sliding over sticky cuticle ; whore-master coming
down, opening box-room : crouching, clapping hands smeared with

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gravy over Khamssieh's belly ; whore shuddering, mouth swelling.
throat regurgitating pomegranate-flesh : whore-master moving one
chubby hand onto hip. groping under Khamssieh’s buttocks, touching
arse of whore, other hand palpating blood-stained belly ; member
twitching in pubic curls ; whore-master withdrawing finger ; sliding
finger, soiled with shit, with dried jissom, over Khamssieh’s lifeless
lips ; Khamssieh raising, folding arms beside hip, Pressing
transparent fingers onto whore-master's hairy arm ; epidermis.
under ginger curls rooted over forehead, blushing pink ; whore-
master pulling fat lips apart with thumb, rubbing thumb-nail over jaw
— saliva circulating afresh ; Khamssieh's lips closing over whore-
master's thumb, member, stiffening in black tangle, pulling at
freckled cuticle ; eyes, scintillating between encrusted lids, squinting.
fixing vibrant piercing eyes of whore-master : fingers climbing up
along fluffy arm of master burying fingers, at same moment. into
pubic curls of whore, Squeezing dry ballls ; alive — swelling between
whore-master's fingers ; Knamssieh sucking whore-master's thumb.
licking gravy smeared over phalanges ; whore-master pulling hand
back, placing fingers onto breasts of whore ; pulling other hand out
of tangle, massaging top of whore's thigh, enveloping knee :
Khamssieh spreading thighs, stiffening legs, slipping finger through
curls, underneath penis arching, swelling, enlarging ; pushing penis
back against extended thumb, drawing member upwards, Pumping :
sweat covering whole body, veins of tremulous skull palpitating.
blood glowing in neck ; one hand of whore-master, coated with
saltpetre. massaging femur, inside slope of thigh ; fingers of other
hand, small, plump, interlacing with whore's free hand open, damp.
against hip ; Khamssieh's toes curling back : sweat running in
hollows of phalanges ; ; whore-master dropping knee, other hand
Pushing hand of whore back onto belly ; crouching, thrusting foot
into Khamssieh's flank... « give... give... force the juice. » :
Khamssieh, tongue protruding, panting, chest raised ; fist pumping
at softened penis.. : «.. grubs of tarantulas crawl in butcher's
armpits.. » ; whore-master pushing fist, away from member ; tapping

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knee ; Khamssieh relaxing muscles, breathing deep ; «..work till
tomorrow... drillers knocking... open your ears against bolted door...
driven by my knee, Wazzag, buggered by driller with broadest chest,
pulls his partner to the wood... listen then, to work...» : whore-master
standing up, going out, bolting box-room, climbing up into bedroom,
falling onto bed ; Khamssieh, sweat cooling over skin, resting nape
onto arm folded back, hand of other arm playing with penis ; eyes
raised towards small window, dazzled by raw light ; buttocks mounted
on shoulders passing, veiling light ; driller's head hitched up striking
window-ledge of bedroom ; whore-master twisting body in sheet ;
driller. curly head scintillating in fiery rays, forcing member —
straining squashed inside jeans — against nape of beater ; chest
rubbed with rust, panting, ribs, muscles bridling skin ; foam, driven
back over red lips by panting, bathing driller's chin, streaming over
throat ; free pulling out cigarette, lighter, from pocket of denim
jacket, lighting cigarette smeared with wet clay, puffing between lips,
ash dropping onto shaved head of beater ; with thrust of loins, rising
up on shoulders of beater, flinging body against window-ledge,
straddling ledge, rushing, unbuttoned — member spurring pants
Smudged with clay, poking out of jeans —, into bedroom, collapsing,
with bursts of laughter, onto bed, hugging whore-master, covering
master with wide heated body bristling, nibbling ear wrapped in sheet
i feet, packed into espadrilles, striking foot of bed ; mouth
slobbering over ear, driller's saliva sticking whore-master's cheek to
sheet ; fingers delving beneath belly, through sheet, unsheathing
Penis :.. « call your dogs... pull them from the arms of the
unemployed... open up your bedrooms, your latrines... hide your
tools, your guns, your dishes... soft body of sated whore makes
Client turn back at doorstep, dagger in hand.. » ; in alley, against wall,
against lintel of door, drillers — members spurring muddy jeans —
tabbing hips, faces reaching up, simmering, kissing, sniffing, licking
Cars, of fellow workers ; ... «.. give me one with square loins, member
Stiffening quick, after fucking, member hard as my arm.. one | can

P catching, pulling back by his cock.. any other cock is just too

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human, it doesn’t matter who gets hold of it, it's just no good..» ;
driller sits up, propped on fist ; other fist rolling back sheet, over
whore-master’s head, nape, back ; whore-master arching loins, lifting
driller's hardened midriff ; driller, backing off, squatting on heels ;
whore-master hitching legs up between legs of driller folded back,
heels sliding under buttocks hugged in jeans worn bare by pistons.
by rubbing of ropes ; climbing out of bed, sheet flowing crumpled,
soiled with clay, over loins ; driller, crouched on bed, massaging
member inside pants ; whore-master taking soiled key, from gas-ring
; driller jumping to foot of bed, lifting lid of bucket of meat, bending
down, sniffing balmy vapour, dipping finger into gravy, pulling out.
licking finger ; whore-master coming down stairs ; driller pressing
close behind ; stiffened penis, through pants, rubbing bare buttocks
of whore-master.. «..quick... quarry-work grinds my bones..» ; small
dagger gleaming in fist ; pushing whore-master, teeth nibbling ear.
fist digging into sexual cluster ; pimp crossing passage, entering
garden, stopping, pressing hand against driller’s crotch : driller
pressing dagger onto thigh ; Wazzag, stretched out. legs held up on
broken trellis, member falling back out of pubic curls onto belly.
buttocks touching sand, nibbling green barley-stalk ; women backing
off, hiding, in line, behind tree ; Wazzag, chin bathed in green foam.
sucking barley-stalk held in fist, grinding neck into sand ; right foot
slipping over trellis, cheek sliding on sand ; wrinkles of forehead
rolling up towards curly fringe, eyes revulsing : blood throbbing in
throat, Wazzag's eyes enveloping belly of driller : silky swelling of
pants at centre of folds ; Wazzag, sniffing up snot, rolling onto belly.
member hollowing sand, loins lifting ; driller quivering ; whore-master
whistling ; Wazzag kneeling, crawling, fists in sand, shiny penis
dragging over sand marked with footprints, spinning around on
knees, arching gleaming buttocks, moving backwards towards shed.
chin tipped back onto shoulder, narrowed eyes expelling encrusted
secretions, foam scintillating at corner of mouth ; rim of arse.
crimson, glistening ; whore-master pulling hand from driller's
member : .. « ... workers fucked him all morning.. they battered his

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arse to bits... now it's your turn, drill your way in.. the soft layers,
perfumed, are for you.. go on, big man » ; driller, shaking bushy head,
trembling fingers buttoning up jeans spurred by buttressed pants,
advancing over sand ; Wazzag bumping forehead against sand,
arching loins ; arse-hairs, stuck with jissom, pulling apart, between
separating buttocks ; driller, fingers pinching bottom of fly, leg
raised, shaking sexual cluster, slipping espadrille over horny foot,
Wazzag flinging head back, white of eye shining in amber orbit ;
driller's foot sliding over flat of buttocks smoothed out in movement
arching loins, touching edge of arse ; Wazzag pulling back buttocks,
shoed foot of driller curling up against arse ; Wazzag, bursts of
laughter muffled in torso, gums expelling green scum held foaming
on edge of lip ; whore-master seizing buttocks of driller through
jeans, rushing man forward, Wazzag, standing, belly twisted, diving,
spinning, at driller's leg, squeezing leg in arms ; teeth, hooked into
fly, with tongue, unbuttoning jeans ; against teeth, lips, through
denim, cotton, driller's penis swelling, forcing, heating ; Wazzag's
tongue, inside open fly, licking cotton, wetting cotton till epidermis
of member shows through, stuck to cloth ; Wazzag pulling whore-
master's fingers off driller's buttocks, pushing away whore-master's
thigh, holding tongue back in mouth, fangs bared, till whore-master
moves away ; whereupon, wide naked body of whore-master,
splashed by sun, penetrating excremental shadow of passage,
Wazzag snapping at driller's penis, inside pants ; fingers gripping
buttock, over whore-master’s fingerprints ; driller shoving into coiled
hairs of Wazzag's chest, kicking sexual cluster ; flick of thumb
Pushing member out of pants ; seam shining, violaceous over glans,
On tip of member clenched in driller's fist, nerves, muscles,
Circumcised flesh forcing rusty palm — other hand scratching around
Mop of infested hair ; Wazzag, standing up, walking backwards,
Moving closer to driller, breath hissing — driller, hearing noise,

ing go of member, jissom starting to well up under steady
Pressure of fingers —, haunches rolling, lateral folds of neck
Palpitating, silky, under black curls, chubby mound of cheek

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quivering, driller, panting, one hand placed on distended belly of
whore pulling Wazzag close, palm of other hand pressing tips of
fingers touching encrusted corners of boy's lips ; driller's hand
feeling Wazzag's mouth ; member wedged, hard, against hairy
surrounds of arse, glans jerking touching lateral rolls of fat on
buttocks ; Wazzag licking driller’s palm, fingers ; driller, leg against
leg, pushing whore towards shed ; women sitting back in sand -
woman with shaved head, burying head in sand ; women caressing
her croup, her legs ; whore-master, in bedroom, bolting cubby-holes
filled with tools, dishes, weapons, hollowed out in wall, coming back
down stairs, opening door of brothel ; drillers, seated on slope of
dune, sitting up, pulling apart ; approaching, hips cocked, eyes
lowered, two fingers of right hands pinching crotches ; whore-master.
leaning against wood of open door, clinking against member ; soles
of shoes touching tiles. spongy surface of wooden floor, hurried
raising bodies to full height, heated fleshy cheeks touching
eyelashes, drillers unbuttoning : members springing out ; Wazzag, in
shed, pressing hands against wall ; driller, forehead striking skull of
whore, fingers separating fat of buttocks, tense, shoving member
into arse, stiffening legs, heaving, rubbing chest over Wazzag's back
; surface only of hair on heads, one shaken other still, scintillating.
sweat creeping up along curls, in shadows, in rays filtered through
roof of palm-fronds ; Wazzag banging forehead against wall, flinging
arms behind driller’s body, catching hold of buttocks, kneading fat
through denim impregnated with sweat seeping from arse :.. «..
discharge your load, big curly one...» ; driller interlacing fingers over
belly of whore ; muscles, nerves, fortifying Wazzag's sweaty belly :
whore-master opening latrine ; driller with shaved head, jostling
whore-master, rushing, penis projecting stiffened, hands spread, into
darkness ; whore-master closing door behind panting body, pushing
back other three drillers.. « for shaved one : club-foot, for you others
: what's left : red-haired dog stung by tarantula... later, Wazzag.
brown dog, pulled from arms of curly-haired driller, your jissom-
king... club-foot unstuck from shaved one, both hot, awakened to

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ur skilled muscles... count your number, drillers.. » —, drillers
opening other latrine, groping in darkness, hands searching in
corners, coming out ; whore-master pulling close, tugging at jeans,
youngest of five drillers, — with crinkled hair, fat violet lips —.
member spurring jeans down over slope of thigh, dragging youth
towards box-room ; behind counter, driller, panting, one hand
starting to unbutton fly, to separate buttocks of whore-master ;
master, thrusting loins, diving forward : turban unravelling, strip of
cloth flowing over shoulders, down to coccyx, covering driller's hand
drawn back ; whore-master, with flick of head, rolling turban back
around skull, opening box-room door, pushing young driller inside,
climbing back up to bedroom ; seated on edge of bed, tying turban
around head, falling back onto bed ; traces of rust staining edge of
arse : wiped off with back of thumb ; sprawling on back, chin buried
in folds of neck, eye narrowed, drawing circle of rust, around
nipples, with thumb ; shaved driller heaving, stiffened, over rump of
club-foot bent over towards hole of latrine, hands hooked onto pipe
; club-foot moaning, shoed feet of driller squashing bare feet onto
foot-slab ; rough denim of jeans, creased, rubbing loins : epidermis
teddening ; eyes spying mound of turds, red, ochre, blackened,
sliding towards edge of hole ; jissom spurting, mound melting :
swarm of wasps — asleep in mound, glutted — flying up, assailing
bare legs of club-foot ; youth pulling back, pressing partner against
door ; / young driller, in sunny shade of box-room, lying on
Khamssieh ; epidermis of whore, stretched, creased by heavy
Movements of driller, expelling blood dried into powder ; driller
hitching up bare chest smudged with rust against pale weakened
chest of Khamssieh, pressing fat nipples, vermilion, onto withered
ie of whore ; Khamssieh half-opens dry lips, head rolls to one
; driller, hands gathering up ginger head from underneath,
iting, squeezing temples, biting mouth ; member, protruding from
jeans, forcing, stubby, Khamssieh’s sexual cluster ; jeans. soaked
With sweat, with genital juices, sticking to cold thighs of whore ;
driller hugging softened face against his, burying tongue into slack

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mouth, licking back of palate, gums : Khamssieh’s penis twitching
under penis of driller, driller pulling out tongue / ; glans of curly-
haired driller grafting into Wazzag's arse ; perspiring fingers
pressing small vendetta-knife against whore's navel ; blast of sand
pelting shed ; Wazzag, quick, turning hot cheek against cheek of
worker, kissing lips wet with spittle : jissom spurting into loins.
dagger sliding out of fingers open in orgasm, over slope of thigh.
down leg, onto hay ; worker, jissom expelled, slobbering over cheek
of whore ; sweat cooling on fingers ; Wazzag's buttocks heating
thighs, pubis ; two unoccupied drillers — one, honey-coloured hair.
bandage on abdomen, loins squeezed into US shorts, other, dark
hair, packed tight into jeans rolled up over knees, wearing green
plastic sunglasses —, sprawling in corner of room, smoking, legs
entwined, members protruding red, touching ; club-foot stung on
knees by wasps, slumping down along legs of shaved driller ; worker.
member sliding, viscous, out of club-foot's arse, holding up
collapsed body by hips ; striking wasps, with rough hand coated with
dry clay, on chest, neck, belly, sexual cluster, thighs, of club-foot :
wasps, crushed, tumbling over skin, hanging on to pubic curls :
others, aroused, assailing sexual cluster of club-foot ; driller
grabbing, squeezing boy's crotch, bodies bursting against
membranes ; club-foot biting cuff of denim jacket. pulling undulating
tump up along driller's thighs ; worker pinning club-foot's shoulder
under chin against top of chest, both hands stroking swollen knees
; wasps still alive gleaning, between toes of whore, jissom mixed with
mud, grease, shit, from foot-slab ; driller crushing wasps — together
with club-foot's soiled toes —, under sole of espadrilles ; at same
moment, member, re-hardened, digging back into club-foot's arse.
between diagonal buttocks ; / young driller, dropping ginger head.
fingers digging under loins of whore, spitting onto Khamssieh’s face.
hands lifting middle of flaccid, milky body ; straightening up, both
fists pressing into Knamssieh’s torso ; rising from body, crouching on
one side, rolling body onto belly — buttocks of whore, turning.
dusty, marked in folds with traces of dried jissom —, driller standing

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up, treading on rump — espadrille, rope sole stuck with tar,
squeezing pubescent cuticle —, shaking buttocks ; ginger head
thumping on floor ; young driller, leg lifted, scratching sexual cluster,
finger-nails packed underneath with clay ; ribs rolling under skin of
torso, in jacket gaping open ; kneeling, stretching out over whore,
pulling cold buttocks apart with both hands, lodging ardent member
in slit, pushing glans towards frozen arse, bending head down
towards Khamssieh's nape, biting, pulling faded red curls of hair
between teeth, drawing hands out from under belly, striking flanks of
whore : «.. warm, death, warm ..» / ; whore-master, both breasts
smeared, slumbering in intermittent sleep ; between dreams — dogs
with bodies of Wazzag, Khamssieh, fighting over guts, gristle, of his
body —, opening one eye ; at muffled sounds of panting, member
twitching — distant laughter of Wazzag, covered by rustle of hay,
making member bounce up, hardened, swollen, shit from Khemissa's
arse crumbling, in powder, over violaceous cuticle of glans ; toad, in
corner, emerged from drain-hole — filtering gases of cesspool —,
jumping onto knee of dark-haired driller, legs entwined with blond
driller, diving under jeans rolled up to thigh ; blond driller, sitting up,
flattening toad against skin, under sticky denim of jeans, erect
member of dark worker touching wrist ; dark worker shuddering,
cigarette falling over ear, placing hand onto hand of blond ; toad,
sliding forward, emerging from opening of fly, bracing body, ready to
jump. against sexual cluster, gumming pubic hair with gall mixed with
excremental mud ; driller seizing toad against thigh, standing up,
slapping toad against arse of blond, in folds of shorts ; blond
hollowing loins, throwing arm behind back, pulling leg of toad from
under fingers of driller ; fingers, vibrations accelerating, releasing
Shorts ; blond grabbing toad, thrusting fist towards thighs of driller,
unclenching, quick, closing back over driller's bouncing penis ; toads
flesh squashed under palm, mouth drooling over glans, feet gripping
Stretched cuticle ; / curly-haired driller, leg drawn out over leg of
Wazzag, penis sliding half out of arse, tipping Wazzag back onto
Soiled hay, dragging whore up towards top of heap, fists squeezing

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forearms, bending sweaty feet back inside espadrilles around naked.
sticky feet of Wazzag, snapping at ear, nibbling root, drawing blood
; tear-drop forming at corner of whore’s eye — head turned down
into hay —, rolling over ridge of nose, swallowed up in other eye-
socket ; curly-haired driller unclenching fists, tongue licking blood
flowing over ear-lobe, hand stroking shaggy black mop spiked with
thorny twigs, tongue soiled with blood covering eye, licking trail of
tear over nose, throbbing against other eye ; Wazzag darting tongue
— taste of jissom lingering — onto vermilion tongue of driller, lips
drawing close, sticking together, blood bathing Wazzag's cheek.
teaching corners of lips joined ; laughter expelling snot from
nostrils, mixing in hollow of upper lip swollen by kiss ; teeth striking
through saliva ; hand of driller, thumb linked to index, gripping
Wazzag's head ; member delving into arse, epidermis over duct
erupting on contact with sides of arse, jissom shaking glans ; mouth
of driller slipping in jerks towards cheek bathed in blood : jissom
splashing loins, Wazzag bringing knees back under belly ; driller.
belly heaving, thrusting member ; legs contracting ; mouth, twisted
open, closing over mouth of Wazzag, dilated with laughter ; whore.
propped on knees, lifting up driller sprawled over rump ; penis.
expelled, bouncing up, shining, transparent film of jissom coating
reddened flesh, violaceous on glans, marked with ringed imprints :
Wazzag, squatting, shambling over scattered hay, up to driller's open
legs ; worker raising, pressing knees into armpits of whore ; member
softening over seam of fly, expelling pearly filament stretching
hooked onto middle button, shaft retracting into pubic curls ; Wazzag
spreading both hands over drillers belly, marked, beneath navel.
with smudge of red, palpating, kneading, massaging hardened
muscles ; driller lifting loins ; belly oozing sweat embalmed with clay.
under fingers of whore ; Wazzag sprawling between legs squeezed
in jeans, rubbing chest against gluey penis, twisting, wriggling rump
i driller opening thighs wide ; Wazzag. pulling back, burying bloody
muzzle into gaping fly, snapping, chewing, nostrils tickled by hairs.
at jissom-smeared balls ; throat yelping, hands kneading driller's

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thighs, tongue licking bottom rim of arse — worker's member
bouncing up beside bloody cheek —, digging deeper to fringe of
shit-caked hairs ; driller flinging legs over Wazzag's loins ; Wazzag
spitting out balls, pulling back soiled muzzle, pink lips feathering
erect member from bottom to top, up to glans, narrowed eyes shining
beneath lashes, sweaty fingers gripping curly slope — oozing under
jeans — of driller's thighs, tickling chin, throat, top of chest against
driller's glans ; penis curved back against Wazzag's pubescent torso,
vibrating ; Wazzag sliding member around lips, pushing glans into
nostril, tip of tongue flicking shaft away, blowing onto flesh, slipping
member — head flung back, dried blood sliding in powder over
creases of cheek — into ringlets stuck with stalks : at same moment,
fingers, interlaced, bearing up balls dripping with saliva, out of jeans
; worker's espadrille rubbing slit of arse ; folded torso hollowing,
pubis swelling, sweat drawing grime away from navel ; Wazzag
unbuttoning top of fly with teeth, uncovering pubis, driller stiffening
legs : Wazzag's hand, other hand holding back balls, grasping,
pumping member ; sweat oozing in joint of thigh, sweat flowing over
phalanges ; driller's damp buttocks throbbing against hay, mouth
panting ; sweat sticking stalks to cheeks ; hands, convulsed,
grabbing hay, knees creaking, toe-nails scraping inside of
espadrilles, thighs hardening against forearm of whore ; Wazzag
Massaging slimy balls over seam of fly, pointing glans towards
Mouth, eyes staring, level with line of belly, with incandescent
breasts, at wandering eyes of driller ; jissom forcing fist ; relaxed
Mouth filling with spurt : driller's eye twinkling, shining through
twitching eyelid flickering over eye — nerves of palate splashed ;
fingers pulling glans out of lips, throat swallowing clot ; second spurt
Coating chin ; snapping glans back into mouth, squeezing flesh
between teeth, thumb bringing deposit stuck to pubescent chin back
towards corner of lips, sucking clots back over gums ; driller
Stretching torso, arms ; foot, again rubbing Wazzag's buttocks ;
hand, sweat cooling, opening out over hay ; whore holding root of
Member between two fingers, squeezing member from bottom to top,

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forcing jissom up to glans — pulled out of mouth, stuffed into
nostril, squashed, sticky, into corner of both eyes ; driller standing
up, Wazzag dropping member, shambling over to wall, penis dragging
over soiled hay, straightening up against wall, squeezing member
between thighs, standing on toes, elbows pressed into body, hands
wide open spreading jissom, spat back out, over whole of face

hairline, ears, muffled laughter bursting through torso ; driller rolling
onto belly, onto back, shiny skin between thighs, hardened member.
strewn with thorns, sprinkled with rotting acheb, twisting, smacking
lips, forcing pubis with flat of heavy hand ; Wazzag dusted with
saltpetre smearing throat, torso, worker straightening up, bucking
loins, jumping up onto feet, springing towards whore, swift, picking
up dagger : «... eat my love-juice, black dog, eat... outside your arse.
your mouth, it dies, exposed to air, to cold, to eyes of men...» ;
catching hold of Wazzag's hair, scraping, with blade of knife, cheeks.
forehead, nose, chin, eyebrows, corner of eyes, ears, neck.
palpitating throat, panting torso of whore ; Wazzag slapping clammy
hands onto brick wall, raising knee between thighs of worker, up to
softened sexual cluster, lifting marbled member on top of femur :
against Wazzag's half-open lips, driller spreading out jissom
collected on blade ; whore lapping up jissom, closing lips ; driller
forcing lips apart with handle of dagger, flat surface of thumb
stuffing jissom between teeth of whore ; Wazzag rolling tongue over
deposit, holding jissom in mouth, closing eyes — driller pressing
point of dagger onto chin, glans onto thigh, holding head, grasping
hair, pinned against wall —, swallowing saliva ; driller releasing grip.
moving off, back turned, Wazzag spitting jissom, mixed with sputum.
onto own glans, rushing from behind, eyes open washed clear, at
powerful body, flick of fingers sliding jeans down over hips ; plunging
crowned member between driller's bluish buttocks, towards arse
blocked with sand ; driller, volte-face, — Wazzag's member
withdrawing from arse, ring of jissom removed — pulling whore back
to wall, holding jeans up over hips with one hand, other clenching
dagger, pressing blade against thigh-joint of whore flattened against

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wall, members touching amidst simmering bodies ; blade, scraping
sweat from curls, scratching around member ; Wazzag slapping
mouth over snotty nose of driller, yelping, licking inside nostrils,
nibbling crusts, whining ; his member, softened, curving over driller's
fist : worker dropping knife, turning back, both hands spreading
buttocks again denuded ; Wazzag, member stiffening, kneeling,
burying slimy muzzle between buttocks, opening mouth towards
arse, tongue delving — filament hooked onto shit-caked hairs
sticking to tip of tongue ; one gulp, breathing in filament between
lips. pulling muzzle back, hands releasing driller's hairy legs ; driller,
turning back, jeans sliding over hams, squeezing whore — standing
erect — from front, slapping wet flaps of denim jacket around
Wazzag's sweaty loins, nibbling closed lips of whore ; Wazzag,
fingers pulling at arse-hairs of man enlaced, chewing jissom mixed
with shit ; driller pulling apart lips of whore with teeth, pushing clot
into mouth of him patting worker's shoulder-blade, collar-bone,
nape, with big blue fingers, cracked ; driller spitting clot back
between Wazzag's lips, laughing, spitting soiled saliva over gums of
whore ; Wazzag chewing deposit, swallowing ; hand of driller, jerking,
jumping, from top to bottom, over pubescent back of whore, down to
loins — movement of digestion stretching muscles, nerves :
Wazzag's member striking driller's ; worker taking both members
together in fist, squeezing : Wazzag grasping, flattening driller's
balls against thigh, rolling balls, sticky, flaccid, over hairy skin ;
remaining jissom, expelled from glans of driller, crowning Wazzag's
glans, between worker's fingers ; driller's wrist crossing, rubbing
wrist of Wazzag, in steam of two bellies stuck together ; Wazzag.
jissom swallowed, kissing closed mouth, cheeks of driller, hand
wrapping man's shiny head, digging into sandy hair, scratching itchy
Spots marked on scalp by worker, with thumb-nail ; driller scratching
joint of thigh with nail of little finger of hand squeezing members,
Wazzag waggling this hand, pulling own hand from man’s balls,
fingers spread scratching around member, sexual cluster, mouth
fastening, splashed with snot, onto dry lips of worker ; driller,

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member rehardened, straining stiff under Wazzag's fingers, shaking
hair, letting saliva drip down over chin, raising throat, emitting stifled
cry, drawing away from Wazzag, buttoning up top of fly over sweaty
navel, holding prismatic member in fist, rushing at whore ; driving
Wazzag back, turned around, kicking, goading with knees, spitting.
towards open door ; front only of Wazzag's body touching fire, driller
jostling body, penetrating arse, heaving over rump catching light.
ejaculating, rolling head over shoulder of whore. hair, crown of skull
slimy, caught in fire ; Wazzag, shaking fingers at ends of arms thrown
behind man’s body, fiddling with seam of jeans, below buttocks.
pushing seam back into slit of arse, pulling out fingers, bringing
fingers up to mouth, to nostrils ; belly of driller rumbling against
loins ; Wazzag releasing light fart enveloping, arousing member

member swelling, digging deeper : stepping forward, crossing
driller's hands under belly, advancing beneath fire, feet placed light
on hot sand ; sweat flowing over insides of thighs, down to ankles.
struck by ankles packed into espadrilles, of man stuck close ; women
sprawled under thorn-tree, lifting torsos ; shaved girl scrutinizing top
of four legs pressed together, jissom streaming, shining, over oozing
sweat, girl kneeling, rolling gandourah up over thighs, stuffing sand
into half-open vulva ; in full light, feet trampling on bleached sand
two youths, pressed close, walking diagonally into middle of garden
towards broken trellis, front of Wazzag's body turning, brown mass
of driller's body rising up regular ring over outline of coppery body
bleached white in patches by fire, towards panting group of women
lying back down, heads, breasts, covered with points of shadow.
bellies, legs, bathed in fire ; Wazzag leaning belly onto upright
section of trellis ; buggered, rear of body buttressed, belly, loins
harnessed by powerful flesh of curly-haired driller, eyeing group of
women sprawled on ground : dazzled gaze caressing prismatic scalp
of crouching girl ; driller forcing Wazzag's rump down — Wazzag
grabbing stake — heaving, burying eyes into hair of whore .
Wazzag's free hand palpating worker's buttocks, through drenched
denim ; hands of girl digging into sand ; Wazzag's fist gripping stake

84 Pierre Guyotat
; driller, stiffened, tensing muscles, nerves, ejaculating, flinging
muscles, nerves, flesh, at Wazzag's bruised body ; girl, crouching,
advancing towards trellis, pressing fists against Wazzag's bare feet,
straightening up alongside body, breath bathing ear of whore — hot
hand enveloping, supporting, mound of Wazzag’s buttock : «... heavy
jissom for you, whore... filtered jissom of love for me, wife...», sliding
down along legs clamped tight, pressing mouth onto slope of
driller's thigh, between folds of spattered jeans, fingers pulling
Wazzag's buttock to one side, darting tongue into plug of jissom-
smeared flesh, root of driller's member throbbing with intermittent
ejaculation, sucking up jissom, swallowing, pulling out tongue. licking
surrounding hairs, licking, over coccyx, fat of buttocks, hams of
whore, traces — dried, drying — of driller's former spurts ;
Wazzag's hand interweaving with hand of driller placed on girl's skull
; women, sitting up, scrutinizing dark passage : two unoccupied
drillers fighting for club-foot pulled out of latrine, struggling with
shaved worker buggering youth ; three men — three of women
carrying their seed in flanks — fighting with fists striking heads,
spitting ; spittle, swerved punches, showering head of club-foot ;
drawn by penis, towards blond driller, pulling to uncouple youth ;
shaved driller squeezing knees of club-foot between legs ; other
driller, member dangling over jeans, slapping hands over hips of
shaved worker pulling at flat heavy body shaken by movements of
wrestling, heaving ; shaved driller, with thrust of pelvis, swinging
back, stuck to club-foot, into latrine ; blond keeping inert club-foot
close, holding penis, forearm, shaved worker's member slipping out
of arse, ejaculating ; club-foot, buttocks splashed, hugged from front
by blond ; dark-haired driller, quick, thumbs pressed into waistband
of jeans. buggering boy in haste, member sliding in tube gorged with
jissom ; blond driller biting club-foot's mouth, swollen ; same
Moment. dark worker, stiffened, ejaculating ; shaved worker, sated,
Crouching on foot-slab, shitting, door closed by blond worker's foot
i blond, hand supporting bandage on belly, slapping tongue between
joined lips, against tongue of club-foot ; patted by eyelashes,

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narrowed eyes of dark worker scintillating behind green-rimmed sun-
glasses ; throat rumbling ; belly, hams, shuddering, jissom expelled :
blond driller pinching rough-circumcised glans of club-foot, with free
fingers ; stump of youth bouncing over ground in jerks, youth
covering blond driller’s hand, shaking loins, twisting back, lifting
knee up between thighs of driller squeezed into shorts — driller's
member poking out stiff, root pinched in gap between two chipped
buttons ; blond worker scratching glans, club-foot leaping forward.
onto blond ; dark worker, lenses steamed up, pulling at own member.
drawing back towards garden, creased jeans stuck with jissom onto
stocky thighs ; blond driller, turning club-foot around, pressing
thighs against buttocks of youth ; shaved worker, buttoned up.
coming out of latrine, in cloud of excremental odour, sliding jissom-
smeared hand back over scalp ; jeans, tight, swollen at top of thigh
by gluey balls, on slope, by enlarged member ; pressing shit-soiled
hand over mouth of club-foot — blushing legs of youth scintillating
smeared with jissom down to heel —. pulling lips, teeth open
pressing thumb into mouth, finger-nail scratching back of palate
squeezing jaw of youth between other fingers ; whore strangled
spitting mucus, saliva : blond worker heaving over croup, catching
rope of espadrilles onto hooked toe-nails of youth, shorts stuck to
buttocks scraped raw to veins ; torso of club-foot wilting ; epidermis
of skin, over whole body swollen, contracted by venom of wasps.
fading pale, softening ; fingers of blond, convulsed, pinching flaccid
folds over belly ; shaved worker withdrawing hand, stroking whore's
red member flecked white, wiping muddy glans ; member bouncing
back ; shaved worker pulling lighter from pocket, striking flint ; bluish
flame biting into pubic curls ; club-foot spreading thighs —
vibrating, covered with charred hairs ; dark worker, leaning against
doorpost, one leg stiffened in rays, masturbating, balls hanging pink
viscous, over side of thighs, outside jeans, clenched, gluey, in hand.
with member ; ejaculating onto belly of Wazzag brushing close
buggered, head reddened beneath fire — women, crouching.
tubbing sand, barley, onto mouth of shaved girl, girl's fingers

86 Pierre Guyota

holding tuft of sweating hairs from husband's pubis ; dark worker
squashing glans against Wazzag's navel ; Wazzag, eye flooded by
excess of light, scrutinizing lenses brushed by eyelashes of driller,
catching member in fingers, forcing out jissom — gathered on
thumb, carried to lips —, dazzled ; pressing lips, soiled — filament
hanging from chin —, onto lips of driller, half-open in remaining
orgasm, sliding tongue into mouth, covering palate of youth —
member striking thigh —, picking out threads, tiny bones stuck
between teeth ; one wrinkled hand spreading spurt of jissom over
belly, other, twisted arm outstretched, digging into back pocket of
driller's jeans ; worker pulling Wazzag towards open latrine ; dark-
haired driller, embalmed lips smoothing out bare, straightening up
along door-post, sneezing — gentle gust of wind feathering sweaty
chest —, shifting along wall, standing still opposite three youths
stuck together ; one side of club-foot's pubic fleece, charred, falling
in cinders over leg : eye wide open, white shining immaculate,
pressing finger onto naked cuticle ; shaved youth drawing flame
towards remaining pubic hair ; driller, leaning head back against wall,
shadow of chin severing throat, blowing sugary breath over lips,
drops from member dripping onto jeans rolled up over knees, eyes
teddening behind lenses : «...oh shaved one, bleed him before you
grill him...» ; blond driller, slobbering in jerks over shoulder of club-
foot ; on legs, jissom streaming mixed with ash ; bandage oozing,
teddening club-foot's coccyx ; in open latrine, curly-haired driller,
Propped back against wall, top of fly unbuttoned, jeans sliding down
over both sides of buttocks of Wazzag stuck to worker's thighs,
bending knees — Wazzag, buggered, slumping down in front of
arched body —, releasing excrement ; excrement bursting out.
embalming both sweaty bodies : Wazzag, mouth filled with saliva,
With debris from mouth of dark worker, rubbing cheek against lips of
Curly-haired driller soaked with foam in effort, expelling excrement ;
Curly-haired worker moaning, bloody shit heating bottom of arse ;
with one thrust of loins, re-aligning Wazzag slumped against front of
body ; whore, member erect eyes throbbing at top of inverted body,

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captured in single filtered glance of dark-haired driller ; Wazzag.
withdrawing lips from mouth of curly-haired worker, sniffing
excremental odour, spitting debris from dark driller's mouth over side
of cheek ; arse, stuffed with crumpled flesh of member, smarting

boiled meat cooling inside torso ; shaved driller moving flame of
lighter over club-foot's throat : grease, gravy crackling over cuticle

head of blond, heated by flame, slumping over shoulder of club-foot
finger-nails scratching torso ; dark worker flattening buttocks against
wall, crossing legs, pulling out balls ; club-foot holding back saliva
muscles of neck ; shaved driller sliding lighter into sticky pocket

penis pushing back under re-buttoned fly ; blond straining, bandage
pulling at skin of groin ; jissom mixed with blood, with ashes.
enrobing heel of club-foot ; shaved worker, wet hip brushing against
club-foot's belly, leaning head towards face of blond, tipped
sideways, over shoulder of club-foot, kissing sweaty cheek, blowing
laboured breath over eye of youth bathed in tears, hand covering.
kneading buttock through thin khaki cloth of shorts ; foot of curly-
haired worker slipping on foot-slab ; in movement keeping balance.
member falling out : Wazzag, with quick thrust of pelvis, uncoupling
diving forward ; curly worker wrapping shirt around shivering torso.
fists rubbing belly, thighs, dressed with elated flesh of rear of
Wazzag's body, crouching down, gluey jeans wrung under
articulation of knees ; Wazzag coming out of latrine ; shaved worker
placing foot shoed with tarred rope onto Wazzag's bare foot
pressing hand heated by flame of lighter onto bottom of belly of him
walking — lightened, arse, crotch, greased by jissom of curly-haired
driller —, towards dark worker with violaceous member swelling
burning, circumcised flesh stretched ; Wazzag's hip brushing over
buttocks of blond hugged in shorts ; shaved worker grabbing
whore’s member, little finger separating pubic curls ; blond pushing
club-foot into corner of first latrine, bandaged belly throbbing under
fleshy folds ; stream of sweat marking cloth of shorts, from coccyx
down beneath arse, along seam ; club-foot trembling purple, lifted
off ground, nails hooked into rough layer of saltpetre coating wall

ss Pierre Guyota\
shaved driller hugging Wazzag from front, member of whore,
pressed back upwards, warming worker's groin ; Wazzag's wide
mouth kissing mouth of worker ; eyes, level with worker's eyes,
gleaming, staring at shining chest of dark worker, at folds of neck, at
tender amber epidermis of temple squeezed by green plastic frame,
at sweat, filtered by bluish glass, beading on eyelids ; shaved worker
pulling Wazzag's buttocks apart with big heavy hands — articulated
at ends of long hairless arms —, kneading sticky fat : Wazzag
lowering eyelids, shaved worker's foot squashing foot of whore ;
curly-haired driller straightening up, fingers scraping shit hooked
into arse-hairs, dipping fingers into rusty tin of water, standing up,
pulling up jeans, buttoning fly, running fingers with grubby nails
through hair, pulling fingers out, stroking surface of Wazzag's hair,
shaken by kiss, with flattened palm of same hand ; loins of whore
shuddering ; curly worker drawing thighs, hugged in creased jeans,
close to Wazzag's buttocks ; member, bridled by greasy denim on
side of thigh, touching fat of Wazzag’s arse held in shaved worker's
hand ; cheek of whore rounding out, downy mound simmering :
removing one bruised arm from shaved worker's back, flinging arm
behind, onto hip of curly worker with member, quivering, — glans
straining. distinct from shaft, under worn, threadbare, denim —
stuck against slope of Wazzag's buttock, heating slimy cuticle,
excremental ; muffled moan in torso, vibrating lips fastened to jaw of
shaved driller ; hand feeling thigh of curly-haired worker : worker
Pulling away, hand of whore pawing at member squeezed in jeans ;
blond holding hips of club-foot, pressing top of boy's body down :
club-foot banging forehead reddened by rush of blood, against
Soiled tiles ; exposed coccyx shining bloody : thumbs of blond
digging in, hollowing ; Wazzag pulling back buttocks, pushing curly-
haired worker towards latrine, lifting arm from shaved worker's back,
Temoving lips from lips, wiping saliva from worker's mouth with back
of hand. freeing body from driller, taking lighter from pocket, sucking
lighter. standing slumped on one hip ; thread of snot catching onto
Toller, Wazzag closing cap, putting lighter back in pocket of shaved

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worker ; dancing, feet spread flat striking floor, belly hollowed.
member in fist, head shaken, knees knocking, shoulders swinging.
neck drawn out, arms folded back undulating over hips, hand raised
shading forehead, hand spread wide waving in front of member
shaken, thumb hooked into groin, hands slapped over nipples
thumbs joined, Wazzag advancing towards dark-haired driller striking
floor with one foot ; shaved worker, curly worker, shoulder to
shoulder, beneath fire, each darting quick kisses onto other's lips
trampling on bleached sand, kneeling down in garden, unbuttoning
jeans, pouring fistfuls of burning sand over thighs, over sexual
clusters coated with jissom, with shit ; dark worker, heat, perfume of
Wazzag's approaching body steaming over belly, bathing nostril
member stiffening, slaver dripping at corner of lips wiped by tip of
whore's crumpled fingers, sweaty ringlets frizzing ; curly-haired
worker, shaved worker, heads pressed close, knees trampling sand
up to trellis ; women, again dozing, breasts purring in shade

drillers, jeans half-open, rolling back beneath fire, buttocks against
heels, throats stretched backwards throbbing, sun heating jeans over
knees, beating into circumcised flesh of straining members ; farts.
outside arse bridled by seam of jeans, bathing sexual cluster.
embalming rays ; odour waking shaved girl : sand running over
thighs of husband ; mica scintillating, stuck with jissom to violaceous
member ; gust of wind flinging thorns over bared breasts of women
; shaved girl, skull riddled with thorns, with sugary petals.
straightening up, advancing, on knees, on fists pressed into sand.
towards trellis ; vapour exhaled by breasts shaken in top of dress
steaming, bathing face : nipple emerging, catching at hem of
neckline ; curly-haired driller aligning incandescent head, staring at
nipple ; rays oiling member ; girl clenching mauve fists onto trellis

curly worker advancing, slapping slimy hands over fists ; girl blowing
onto member, through trellis ; worker pressing small ears of girl
between fingers smoothed on handle of drill, kissing girl's forehead
top of nape, golden lozenge encrusted over fontanelle in sooty
Cuticle ; Wazzag, stuck to dark worker, keeping eyes fixed on trellis

90 Pierre Guyotat
girl's elbow just resting on fence, above mass of body of curly
worker kneeling ; dark worker pinning Wazzag against wall, turning
whore around, pressing hip onto wall, punching belly to bend top of
body down, thrusting bouncing member towards arse exposed by
inclination of body ; jissom spurting — worker, thrusting, allows leg
to stiffen —, splashing buttocks : Wazzag, laughing, pushing
buttocks between thighs of dark worker, rubbing buttocks, smeared
with jissom, against jeans of him wiping, with finger-tip, lenses
steamed up in heated tension ; jissom still spurting, clots catching on
curls around arse ; buttocks turning, twisting ejaculating member ;
dark worker gripping member, squeezing root, squashing glans onto
coccyx of whore, drawing circle, spiral, rectangle onto skin ridged by
vertebrae ; other hand holding one side of Wazzag's sweaty torso :
pulling jissom off taut hams — mouth, lungs, spasmodic, thrust
forward ; pushing whore towards corner — blond, head tinged violet
by rush of blood, pummelling club-foot bent down ; dark worker
uncoupling from Wazzag, directing arse of whore towards club-foot's
inclined head ; club-foot, opening mouth, fastening lips swollen with
cold blood onto decorated coccyx, sucking up circle, spiral,
rectangle, dark worker stuffing member into mouth of Wazzag
kneeling, hands squeezing driller's knees ; whore sucking sticky
member, swollen, forced by intermittent jissom, eyes turning away
from worker's hairy belly, scrutinizing trellis crushed by mass of
bodies, scintillating : shaved worker, curly worker, girl, entwined ;
dark worker pulling sticky testicles out from between thighs, rolling
balls against chin of whore, back towards hollows of cheeks ; loins
quivering, encased in creased jeans ; pulling hands away, placing
hands on Wazzag’s head, sliding fingers through encrusted hair,
tightening fingers, digging in, nails scratching scalp ; stiffening legs
+ Wazzag turning head beneath nails ; vapours exhaled from driller's
Contracted pubis clouding eyes ; lips rubbing at enlarged member ;
Club-foot licking coccyx, tongue plunging into tangle of jissom-
Smeared ringlets palpitating over Wazzag's arse ; blond, leaning over
Croup. catching ears pierced through lobe, twisting ears, pulling,

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pushing head back over upper back, hand covering, caressing
straining throat ; / frizzy-haired youth pulling member swollen with
jissom out from between Khamssieh's buttocks, biting grimy
earlobes, spitting onto squashed cheek, grasping — kneeling on
buttocks — Khamssieh's hair, lifting up inert head, kissing dusty
mouth, wiping nose against forehead of whore, pinching eyebrows.
eyelashes, pulling lashes, blowing over tarnished eyes, letting saliva
run out through teeth over iris, lips curled back, fist striking
forehead, standing up, wiping thick violet lips, fingers smoothing
back frizzy hair ; member, stiffened, bouncing on sexual cluster
spread over seam of fly ; foot trampling on ginger head ; pushing at
door, bending down, picking up lifeless arms of whore, pulling body
towards door ; behind zinc counter, lifting overturned body, propping
whore up, back against zinc ; Khamssieh, panting, flinging arms
behind zinc, fingers touching wood worn by contact with sweaty
bellies ; dusty, sooty body — chewed cigarette end, bloody, hooked
to pubic curls beside member —, stuck with splinters, stroked by
driller all over front, from bottom to top : splinters pushed deeper by
worker's palm ; hand sliding over knee, over thigh, pulling crumpled
penis up against belly, climbing up along groin, thumb digging into
navel, palpating belly, covering breasts, throat, bringing all grime of
body up towards lips ; driller pouncing onto tottering body, pinning
shoulder-blade against counter, pressing lips onto Khamssieh’s
temples : lips half-opening, breath blowing over ginger tufts, teeth
nibbling temporal vein : saliva, driven back, strangling worker.
chipped teeth slicing vein ; body collapsing, worker slumping forward
3 forehead striking bottom of zinc panel, whole mouth sucking blood
; pink foam frothing over Khamssieh’s forehead ; body shivering
under weight of driller ; head, emptied of venomous blood, warming
; leg, caught between legs of driller hugged in baked jeans
simmering : member twitching under worker's torn crotch ; aroused
worker aspiring tepid blood, laughter stifled in throat, lips vibrating
Over wound, snot expelled splashing forehead of whore ; Khamssieh
hot red blood forcing all veins, moving underneath driller, hand

92 Pierre Guyotat
delving taking hold of man's softened penis ; member, pressed back,
engorging, swelling, hardening ; frizzy youth taking lips off wound,
straightening up, slapping hands onto hips, onto buttocks stuck to
jeans by sweat, thrusting member forward, straining hard, arched
violet, scrutinizing refreshed eyes of Khamssieh, opening blood-
filled mouth, vomiting blood into Orangina bottle, wiping bloody lips
:«., Stand up.. | fuck you till blood curdles in bottle... ; holding
bulbous bottle of roughened glass between fingers : blood cooling ;
Khamssieh moving ; lifting one side of body, balls caught under
buttocks. shining, polished, through red hair, spreading out against
bottom of arse ; frizzy worker pressing balls with tarred rope of
espadrille ; Khamssieh, one hand pressed against bloody temple,
propping elbow onto zinc ; frizzy worker, four fingers of each hand
stuck into front pockets of jeans, thumbs joined over curve of
member, leaning on one hip, fingers scratching root of penis through
denim — still dry —, spitting onto body ; threads of saliva, hanging,
vibrating from mouth down to Khamssieh's breast : swallowing
threads, lips touching breast ; body of whore shuddering ; frizzy
worker pulling hands out of jeans, slapping hands over Khamssieh's
hips, mouth sucking nipple ; members stuck together, Khamssieh
pressing hands onto buttocks of worker ; fingers palpating, kneading
folds under buttocks, pinching, through threadbare denim soaked
with sweat, arse-hairs caked with shit ; frizzy worker pulling away
from Khamssieh ; punching fist into hips, spinning whore around,
belly against zinc, smoothing member between two fingers, plunging
member into Khamssieh's arse ; Wazzag, glans of dark worker
blocked against nostril, chewing jissom ; fingers pulling, mauling
Worker's balls hanging over throat ; blond squeezing head of club-
foot standing upright against top of chest, bowing head twisted
towards club-foot’s spattered face, rubbing face with cheek, kissing
jissom-smeared mouth, nibbling curls pulled from Wazzag's
€ngorged arse, enrobed in clots thrown up from club-foot's
Squeezed throat ; / Khamssieh sniffing, torso touching top of zinc
Counter, eyes staring at Wazzag's grinding jaw ; glans of frizzy

Eden Eden Eden 93
worker probing into arse, Khamssieh spreading thighs, buttocks.
heels, over bloody tiles ; hands of frizzy worker enveloping bottom
of buttocks, seizing balls beneath penis half-penetrating arse.
pulling, squashing balls into sexual cluster ; frizzy worker stiffening
legs — muscles vibrating, jerky, against ham hugged in jeans —.
tensing toes, heels raised, heaving over Khamssieh's rump ; member
of whore beating against zinc, worker's fingers, leg raised, knee
jammed against zinc, pulling at pubic curls, at membranes of
member ; worker's wrist drawn back from between Khamssieh's
thighs, moving up, damp, over hips, back, shoulder, barring throat.
fingers pulling ear, curling back lips of whore : at same moment.
jissom spattering arse : driller's balls, sweating, striking bottom of
Khamssieh’s buttocks, stiffening powdery curls over whore's temples
bristling under worker's breath ; worker's other hand covering
Khamssieh's breast, nails scraping sweat over grimy cuticle of nipple
; tense feet forcing espadrilles imbibed with grease ; sweat flowing
along legs squeezed under jeans ; torso, flaps of denim jacket
thrown back at sides, rubbing back of whore — sweat diluting
bloody finger-prints of butcher ; jissom hardening penis, epidermis
adhering to sides of arse ; whore squeezing buttocks over middle of
shaft, slobbering, shivering, arms folded back against torso, wrists
crossing wrists of worker : expelled jissom, hot, splashing previous
spurt cooling ; seams, creases of frizzy worker's jeans : crotch
pockets, fly, bottom of buttocks, groin, knees, hams, soaking up
sweat ; worker, convulsed hands pulling away from torso from throat
of whore, coughing against Khamssieh's cheek ; spittle, snot
running down towards right corner of Khamssieh’s lips ; thick mauve
tongue protruding, bringing filaments back towards mouth —
aspired, spittle, suspended from chin, sticking to zinc ; hand bent
back pressing, wiping, worker's soiled mouth filled with frothing
phlegm ; gathering phlegm in cupped hand, lapping up along
crevices — seeping, reddened by powdered blood held back in folds
of contracted hand ; frizzy worker slapping hands onto Khamssieh's
hips, fingers digging into groin ; heels raised, hams tensing ; whore

94 Pierre Guyotat
licking hand filled with phlegm, flinging both arms back behind
bodies, onto buttocks of frizzy worker, kneading, hitching buttocks
up inside denim softened by labour of copulation, slipping thumbs
into belt-loops ; tongue of frizzy worker licking — mouth open
panting — corner of Khamssieh’s lips, lips smeared with spittle, tip
of tongue protruding ; worker's hairless cheek scraping pock-
marked cheek of Khamssieh, belly strengthened on handles of US
drills, grinding against horny coccyx — vertebrae undulating against
belly, stimulating blocked member —, knees rubbing sweaty hams of
whore ; blood curdling in bulbous Orangina bottle : Khamssieh’s hot
wide body weakening, frizzy worker's jissom, expelled, washing over
retracted glans, sagging ; blood bursting from bitten temple ; body
collapsing at worker's feet ; worker, drops from retracted member
dripping onto seam at bottom of fly, crouching — jeans squeezing
gluey balls, flattened against buttocks —, turning whore over onto
back, simmering body cooling under fingers, lying out over body,
placing lips over wound, sucking blood : «..naked whore-master, with
blue hairs... your red dog bleeding...» ; mouth distended over wound,
purring, slumping over lifeless body.. «..dog, mule,..jissom filling
your head, your belly, your hams, let jissom run through your veins,
pushing to heart, pumping your blood.. fuck, suck, your lips, your
hands, your member swollen by jissom equal with blood.» ; whore-
master, going to shit, hand spread out over arse, stopping at bottom
of stairs ; russet head lying bathed in blood ; buttocks of frizzy
worker quivering, hugged in jeans ; whore-master advancing,
Crouching, lifting Khamssieh's nape..: «..let go, frizzy man... your
teeth, grinders of carrion, infect wound..» ; / Wazzag's tongue,
jissom swallowed, licking under balls of dark worker ; worker, arms
faised, buttocks pressed back against wall, spreading thighs,
Stretching all limbs, yawning ; Wazzag kissing thigh — stretched
Muscles heating flesh ; / whore-master’s fingers unfastening frizzy
Worker's lips from wound, pushing back rest of body — rolling onto
back. legs spread alongside Khamssieh —, lifting up Khamssieh's
bloody feet, dragging cold body into box-room, locking box-room,

Eden Eden Eden 95
crossing saloon, passage, bounding into garden ; frizzy worker.
bloody lips throbbing, throat gurgling, rubbing eyes, flinging arm
sideways, stroking, with flat of palm, tepid traces of Khamssieh’s
body on floorboards, finger-tip rubbing blood into dust, licking
finger, yawning, pushing softened sticky member back into jeans.
buttoning, patting fly raised again by member rehardening ; cheek
touching floorboard ; sweat drying in sleep ; / Wazzag, standing up
beside dark worker, rubbing ear, temple. against lips of worker

«..bite my vein, man, then he feeds me lamb-liver..» ; whore-master
unravelling jeans, djellaba, of club-foot, tied to trunk of apricot tree
in corner, slipping clothes on, straddling trellis : leaning on stake.
shaved worker again shitting in burning sand, women, squatting in
shade, flinging flowering-fruits fallen from tree onto gleaming skull
— veins, veinlets, standing out, with straining of defecation —
pollen bursting over occiput ; curly-haired worker, girl, copulating on
debris of reeds, panting, moaning ; women clapping hands dusted
with pollen, whore-master running, alongside « Dead Ponds »
towards camp — effluvia from kitchens, trapped, held at noon in
bushes, in foliage, driven out in evening by winds from plateau

crawling under barbed wire — ground strewn with turds driven out
of kennel by wind —, skirting around incandescent hut of dog-
handlers : lithe dogs, rearing up, claws hooked onto fencing
members projecting erect, sniffing aroma of jissom exhaled by
whore-master's body advancing beneath fire ; in bedroom with pink
walls plastered with photos of naked women, soldier with curly blond
hair, wrapped in sheet, body, sweating naked except for immaculate
Cotton pants scintillating with crystals of washing-powder, squashing
jumbled membranes, tufts, limbs, of black bitch on heat, flopped.
eyes hazy, in hollow of mattress ; whore-master kneeling before bed
touching soldier's hand, opened, moist, on pillow ; soldier rolling
onto back, legs spread under damp sheet ; bitch, front legs tucked
under sheet, growling, slaver drooling between fangs onto soldier's
pink shoulder : .. «..my red dog's bleeding.» ; soldier pushing bitch
aside, kissing whore-master's palm, striking flank of bitch : animal

96 Pierre Guyotai
springing off sheet, jumping to bottom of bed, sniffing, quick,
whore-master's arse ; blond soldier drawing close : .. « .. lie down,
Sultane... come, colleague... let your red dog bleed all his poisoned
blood..» ; soldier lifting sheet, whore-master climbing onto bed,
sliding under sheet, purring coiled in warm impression left by bitch
— black hairs of animal stuck by slaver to blond curls of soldier ;
soldier rolling to one side, palpating whore-master’s hot belly under
sheet : member quivering underneath, below layer of cloth, of denim
; rolling up djellaba — whore-master spreading thighs, sandy foot
touching damp foot of soldier —, unbuttoning dry heated jeans,
burying hand, whole wrist, between whore-master's thighs, seizing
member, smoothing shaft up to glans ringed with jissom mixed with
grease, with minium, from Khemissa’s arse : smell of club-foot —
dates, camel-dung, urine, baby's droppings, leather, tea —, stirred
up in clothes by heat of bodies, mixing with smell of bitch, with
cologne sprinkled by soldier over whole body before, after, caring for
dogs ; soldier's member spurring, wetting pants ; bellies, breasts
touching under stretched sheet filtering pink light of walls ; bitch
sitting on haunches, ears flattened back, scrutinizing nude photos ;
whore-master rolling onto belly, soldier sitting up, rolling up djellaba,
jeans, palpating exposed buttocks, straddling — fist pressed into
mattress — whore-master's body, pulling member straining stiff out
of pants, lodging member between buttocks quivering beneath belly,
lowering naked body onto dressed body under sheet ; legs stiffened,
hands squeezing shoulders of pimp, vertical friction, pressure,
forcing jissom itching in pubis, seething in glans ; outside pants,
balls, sweaty, spreading over hem at waist of jeans ; muscles
felaxing, tongue licking whore-master's salty cheek, bristly down
Over upper lip ; bitch lying on concrete floor, stretching legs,
founding rump, whining ; soldier squeezing whore-master's jaw.
Member rehardening, jissom, drawn from groin spurting, mouth
Opening, neck jerking, cutting across ridge of whore-master's jaw ;
teardrop scalding wing of nose ; gust of wind blowing lower
eucalyptus branches against sheet-metal roof : white tarantula

Eden Eden Eden 97
falling onto panting belly of bitch, sting piercing vein through sweaty
coat ; bitch howling, standing up, shaking ; weakened, lying back
down, licking pink paint of wall, frantic, rolling onto side of belly
stung, yelping ; soldier pulling ejaculating penis out of whore-
master's arse, jumping to bottom of bed — member bouncing, thick.
on elastic of pants —, crouching beside bitch — jissom flowing from
sparkling glans in pearly clots, running over hairy surface of thigh
—, turning animal over, pinching wound, grasping back leg,
squashing tarantula tucked into cavity in concrete ; standing up.
taking syringe filled with serum from cupboard paned with frosted
glass hanging in corner on wall, crouching back down, lifting fist
squeezing syringe : final spurt — running over retracted glans.
streaming over shaft of member down to pubic hair, gumming cotton
— softening arm ; thumb of free hand lifting, squeezing, pushing
member back into pants, licking fist smeared with jissom forced back.
wiping unclenched fist over loins ; arm falling, syringe piercing tufted
epidermis ; bitch shuddering ; soldier withdrawing syringe, patting
wet muzzle, standing up, placing wet syringe in cupboard, coming
back to bed, sitting down, pushing buttocks towards cheek of whore-
master rolled over onto back, sheet flung down, crumpled, onto
dusty cement, soldier spinning around, legs jammed against wall
sticky sexual cluster packed into pants sweeping over cheek of pimp.
dropping head between thighs of latter hugged in jeans ; pimp’s
nose sniffing under soldier's arse ; soldier's member again
stretching pants, lips sticking to crease of jeans, on pimp's hot thigh
; damp foot pushing against incandescent window-frame : at same
moment, one, two, three sentinels of relief guard, bodies girdled
after eating, farts drenching arses, looming up towards window :
helmets striking glass, soldiers, quick, pressing grease-smeared
mouths onto pane over heel touching glass from inside, eyes
feasting — under matted lashes — on fold marked out in cotton by
member curved back inside pants ; in angle of thighs spread out
whore-master’s head rearing up, lips kissing, sucking sticky cotton :
soldier, laughter shaking torso, sliding hands under loins of pimp.

98 Pierre Guyotai

member straining against nape, mouth vibrating in fold : ... « jissom,
blood, sweat, saliva, bile.. your dogs working deep on men... for
when the lymph?.. » ; Wazzag, crouching, sucking member of dark
driller dozing ; blond driller snoring, below latrine, slumped over
club-foot ; lips of club-foot soiled with dust, seizing, sucking up
scrap of meat stuck to tiling : throat, throbbing on concrete,
swallowing ; blood oozing over loins ; dark worker sliding down along
wall ; Wazzag, one hand holding up loins, other — sweat driving
seed — massaging sexual cluster ; dark worker, lying beside wall,
sighing ; Wazzag pulling fingers off sleeping body ; standing up,
wiping hands on hips, stretching raised arms, splayed legs ; dried
jissom crumbling over dilated cuticle ; Wazzag crouching, picking up
strips of meat squashed on tiling by tense feet of drillers, lifting
meat to mouth, to mouth of club-foot ; arched, heavy vermilion
croup, buttocks open, touching soiled tiling, scintillating, from nape
down to bottom of buttocks, in penumbra bathed in rays of pink fire
+ / soldier, standing, pants stuck to buttocks by jissom smeared over
face of pimp, heating syringe on gas-ring screwed to pink wall ; in
bluish fire, rounded belly swelling smattered with jissom ; member
retracting in heated cotton ; whore-master rising, sitting on edge of
bed. buttoning jeans, standing, letting bluish djellaba run down over
body, leaning back against doorpost ; soldier, one hand holding
handle of saucepan, other, leg raised, scratching sexual cluster :
quick fart swelling cotton bridled over buttocks ; packing syringe,
femoved from gas-ring, into case, taking sub-machine gun from rack,
hanging gun on shoulder, tying cartridge-belt around waist, against
bare belly, arranging cartridges on each side of member swelling in
Pants, sliding case into empty cartridge-pack ; emerging from hut.
trails of jissom on sides of buttocks, on face of pimp, on sides of
thighs, on back of pants, on fingers of one hand of soldier, fuming,
Caught by fire ; younger soldier leaning on fence, naked but for light
US shorts — olive-coloured matching feverish body, seamless.
hugging midriff — scrutinizing bitches heaped dozing under canopy
Of palms : member, straining stiff, poking from shorts, over thigh ;

Eden Eden Eden 99
glans, slipped between links of fence, shining ; soldier touching back
marked with splashes of grease, of black gravy ; piece of garlic
buzzing in ear of head twisted back : «.. dog-master, cook lends me
his new sauce-boy, to you, everything, back, front, flesh, curls, juice
— all but bile, blood —, in exchange for one pregnant bitch, red-
haired, healthy, chosen by me, brother of his fiancée in Europe : |
feast from his glans furbished on spit of oven... » ; dog-master
entering kennel, bending low, bare feet trampling on sweating bellies
of awakened bitches : all stretching, sniffing master's genitals
licking jissom : alone, red bitch, languid, still lying under canopy.
eyes half-closed, swimming with tears, belly panting ; dog-master.
pushing bitches aside — tongues enveloping, heating member
swollen in sticky cotton —, crouching down, groping at belly of red
bitch ; animal's eyes opening, sclerotic dilating over golden iris
ringed with blood ; sauce-boy kneeling, palpating arse, sliding finger
inside ; hip brushing against hip of dog-master, fingers weaving into
sweaty coat ; dog-master, opening mouth, biting sauce-boy's salty
shoulder, letting saliva run from between teeth onto olive skin
removing lips, standing up ; outside kennel, sauce-boy straddling
bitch, sitting astride : seam of shorts tearing against coat, boy
standing, pushing bitch towards kitchens : tuft of hairs from arse
emerging, shaken out by movements of loose friction of buttocks.
through tear in shorts ; / whore-master leading dog-master into
garden : shaved worker wiping shit-caked arse in sand, hiding face
in hand ; curly-haired worker, kneeling, fists in sand, below mound
with women dozing beneath tree, pushing — knee pressed against
sticky vulva — shaved girl panting, dress rolled up over belly, thighs
open ; / dog-master, crouching, foaming at lips, jabbing into
Khamssieh’s arm ; pulling out syringe ; whore-master taking syringe
going up to bedroom, setting syringe onto heat, coming back down
pulling bandage wrapped in cellophane from cash-box ; Wazzag
standing, chewing meat-scrap, chin smeared with foam, leaning
panting against doorpost : two threads of black snot hanging from
Nostrils, spreading over rim of upper lip ; dog-master dressing bite-

100 Pierre Guyotat
wound ; Wazzag appearing, leaning back against box-room door :
dog-master standing straight, rubbing bloody hands together ;
whore-master pulling Khamssieh to back of box-room, onto spongy
heap of floor-cloths ; dog-master, armed, sweat misting gun, charger,
advancing towards Wazzag, red hands outstretched, member
spurring pants between cartridge-packs ; squeezing Wazzag ; gun-
butt, member, digging into breast, belly : Wazzag pissing over dog-
master's legs ; soldier, urine frothing at feet, pushing whore back,
Wazzag's whole body trembling : stream shaken, splashing dog-
master's pants ; Wazzag, driven back into corner of counter, hands
vibrating at belly ; dog-master gripping arm, neck, from side,
squeezing, swinging top of Wazzag's body back over counter,
squashing neck under two fists pressed together ; Wazzag
struggling, stream from shaken member sprinkling doorposts, tiles,
contracted knee of dog-master ; dog-master stepping back, gun
swinging at sweaty side, jumping back into box-room, pulling at
pants, member dropping out — shaken dry in fist ; spitting into
stream, onto Wazzag's belly, breasts ; member of whore — stream
diminished — retracting, dripping over thigh ; dog-master rushing at
telieved body, kissing neck marked with finger-prints ; gun-butt
digging into Wazzag's breast : member swelling with urine ; muscles
telaxed, hot stream striking foot of dog-master ; dog-master seizing,
pointing Wazzag's member towards counter — hams of whore
flattened back against zinc ; quick, stepping aside, turning Wazzag
around, belly to zinc, buggering whore, damp crumpled pants
Tubbing, brushing against fat of buttocks ; member bathed in urine,
sliding into arse cleaned by flicks of club-foot's tongue ; urine
bathing, heating bare feet pressed together ; stream of jissom
Shaking member of whore, chest panting, barred at level of nipples
by rim of counter ; jissom spurted, dog-master's knee raised rubbing
Over Wazzag's hip, hand groping at retracted member of whore, lips
Closing around ear weighed down by coral ear-ring ; stream from
Member stopping under dog-master's fingers, whore arched whining,
Stretching muscles of thighs, of buttocks — clot of jissom squeezed

Eden Eden Eden 101
from member, running into arse —, rubbing, stroking eruptive hairy
neck against dog-master's face ; gun-butt striking Wazzag's coccyx.
member of whore again quivering, swollen with urine, under dog-
master's fingers ; dog-master lifting top of body away from Wazzag's
back — without withdrawing penis —, removing sub-machine gun
from shoulder, placing gun onto counter ; urine driven back into
bladder, dog-master dropping swollen member, grabbing member
again, rings forming beneath fingers, glans flushing red, turning to
violet, circumcised flesh, dilated, sticking to fingers ; dog-master
pushing Wazzag into darkened corner of counter against wall
forcing all limbs into corner, withdrawing member, turning whore
around, buttocks pressed into corner, slimy member rolling over
Wazzag's hip ; whore panting, dog-master, feet slipping in urine
growling, pinching, twisting nipples of whore, letting hands slide
quick, down along body dusted with saltpetre ; crouching down
biting into femur ; member, pressed back, resting on cartridge-pack
; Standing up — sweat scintillating on pubescent chest —, pulling
spongy dish-cloth from crack in wall level with counter, wiping black
snot — running around mouth of whore in two distinct threads.
spreading out over chin —, flinging rag onto counter, fist pulling
whore's retracted member down, kissing mouth, wiped chin, laugh
disgorged vibrating under lips marked with imprints of teeth ; whore-
master, at other end of counter, removing djellaba, jeans — seam
stuck to buttocks by dog-master's jissom —, throwing clothes under
wash-bowl, over sleeping body of frizzy worker, scratching — naked
free arm pulling at shoulder — trace of dried jissom on fat of
buttocks ; dog-master, fingers caught in folds behind neck of whore
thrown back, jaw lifting chin of latter ; whole torso of whore, down to
rounded belly, enrobed in saliva, throat scintillating squeezed
between fingers, in light filtered through window framed with barley-
straw ; sticky pants slapping between shaken thighs of dog-master
Wazzag moaning : member aroused by jissom, forcing dog-master’s
fist, hands sweating, pressed against counter ; pimp pissing into
open latrine ; waking blond worker : straightening up, pulling gluey

102 Pierre Guyotai

member from between buttocks of club-foot, standing, straddling
body of whore, placing foot onto bloody coccyx, readjusting
bandage, stretching arms, yawning ; muscle at coccyx twitching
beneath foot, member bouncing back ; dark worker snoring, head
turned towards wall ; dog-master driving Wazzag back towards end
of counter ; feet striking body of frizzy worker, worker moaning, eyes
closed, licking heel of whore powdered with dry jissom ; dog-master
pushing Wazzag against doorpost of passage, against blond worker
: blond squeezing whore between arms — foot digging in jerks into
fat of buttocks of feverish club-foot —, thrusting pelvis, crying out,
buggering Wazzag ; arched member, sliding over fresh jissom of dog-
master, proliferating in Wazzag's arse ; blond worker, tense, bandage
pulling away from belly hardened sweating. rocking, leaning over
rump of whore bitten on lips by dog-master ; Wazzag, raucous
laughter swelling cheeks, sliding wrists, forearms, under dog-
master's armpits wet with sweat, knotting fingers over creased back,
palpating clavicles ; after buggery, Wazzag kneeling, wrapping arms
around legs of youths standing straight, stuffing two sticky members
into mouth, sucking ; youths moaning, lips pressed together, each
caressing other's hips, throat ; eyelids lowered, Wazzag, with tip of
finger, drumming on two members hardening between lips ; dog-
master letting hand fall onto member of blond youth, wrapping dry
fingers of youth around clammy fingers of whore ; ring-finger
brushing over epidermis — pitted with tooth-marks — of blond
worker's member ; dog-master's saliva running into mouth of blond,
lips shifting, opening over ear, nostrils sniffing, brushing over
Finglets on temples : «.....my dogs, my bitches, oh prince of Koukou,
have bitten, by night, your member here joined with mine, double
Pipes played by these lips, these animal fingers... in this bed worked
Over by wind, oil, gas, ruins, through rhododendrons, reeds riddled
With shot, your swollen feet trampling on fossil-sand, you run, blond
Kbail... shrouded in rebel perfume ; Venus goes before, tossed
between your knees, biting at your crotch, tearing cloth, catching
Member ; sweat blackening shirt stuck to your back... standing on

Eden Eden Eden 103
edge of cliff, reserve-troops panting, growling... ear-rings clinking in
blue ozone, dangling from ears blocked with gypsum... stifled how!
driving back blood between your teeth... gun-butt grinding skull of
Venus, dagger piercing eyes hardened in anger... Venus sprawling
trembling, scraps of your shag catching in her teeth, jerking.»

blond worker's penis retracting between Wazzag's lips ; whore
stroking two members, with fingers, coughing, single clot of mucus
expelled from throat enrobing two glans rolled in tongue, caressing
bristling thigh of blond, grasping balls of both workers, rolled
together over Wazzag’s chin ; point of tongue sliding against upper
lip, between shafts, over glans, members pulled sticky out of mouth
Wazzag whistling modulated, ear-rings tinkling shaken with
movements of sucking ; free fist clenching pants, shorts ; / frizzy
worker rising up on knees, advancing, fists on ground, into box-
room, between Khamssieh's legs spread ; swollen member of whore
bouncing, arched, onto side of thigh — hands of frizzy worker
digging under hairy balls —, springing up arched over belly
hardening, straining, pulling at membranes of sexual cluster

Khamssieh's legs closing over arms, over cheeks of frizzy worker

whore-master looming, member erect, violet, perpendicular to belly.
quivering at sight of Khamssieh's member swelling : master
crouching, drawing frizzy worker by shoulders, standing worker up
pulling man out of box-room / ; dark worker standing, front of body
caught by fire, at edge of sand, swaying, stretching arms, eyes
closed, towards shaved worker tottering, jeans stuck to arse by shit
hand digging into back of jeans, scraping shit, throwing some onto
sand, smearing rest over skull, cheeks, lips, hairs, ears, teeth ; dog-
master, armed, member spurring sticky pants, syringe case tucked
into empty cartridge-pack — belt, pack, spattered with jissom —

crossing garden ; flies assailing hands, soiled face of shaved worker
i dog-master grabbing stiffened member, pulling, twisting ; shaved
worker jumping ; excremental odour, unsettled, wafting through
garden ; shaved worker, moaning, falling down onto sand, legs
Pinched together ; dog-master, unfastening gun, setting barrel

104 Pierre Guyota\
against cheek ; shaved worker down on knees, on fists, rearing up,
bruised mouth opened over teeth dripping with saliva, painted fangs
creased over dilated cheeks, turning in circles around pile of sandy
shit ; springing up, trotting around tamarisk ; dog-master levelling
sub-machine gun, pressing light finger onto locked trigger, popping
mouth : shaved worker jumping, flopping into shit soiled by fists,
straightening up, belching, collapsing onto belly ; dog-master
crouching, touching sweaty back, lifting jeans, flies plunging into
layer of fresh shit — hard crust uncapped —. dog-master spreading
cloth over swarm, standing up, foot trampling on inert head, turning
head over, covered in sand, iris scintillating among crystals ; swollen
mouth lifting, opening layer of sand stuck to traces of shit :
«,....Simulated shot destroys simulated man.. go back into brothel,
trainer... with first blow of gun-butt, turn walls into fences, with
second, bodies into dogs..... » ; / Wazzag, member of blond worker
squeezed at right corner of lips, tickling glans with tongue ; buttocks
of dog-master undulating hugged at middle by striped pants,
Wazzag's fingers scraping crusts on dried shrunken balls, glans
proliferating in mouth of whore, reaching throat ; Wazzag coughing,
chewing at glans, mucus, pulling member from mouth ; worker
catching, shaking member, squashing glans into eye ; ochre blood
dripping down towards pubic fleece :... «..dog taking my jissom, my
veins filled with spittle, with snot, with digestive juices... hungry dog,
pull, untie, devour dead membranes blocking my arse, hanging from
my member... even aroused, they only harden by half... eat folds,
fleshy seams.. gobble.. gulp.. let your teeth, your lips, shape me a
Smooth body, full, polished... let contraction of toe shake back of
head, contraction of member shake lips...» ; Wazzag sniffing,
Smelling balls hanging out of shorts, rolling balls over ridge of nose,
Unbuttoning top of fly, pulling shorts down over knees, over hams,
down around ankles, crumpled ; lifting neck, turning head, burying
fringed temple in sweaty hollows of groin, caressing hot stiffened
arch against ridge of nose, pressing lips over circumcised flesh,
licking — member jerking, tingling, heating —, cheek vibrating,

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modulated murmur rising from throat, against blond worker's groin

chipped teeth nibbling soft flesh pulled back, arm squeezing
immaculate buttocks of worker ; fingers, palm of other hand touching
pulse of fermenting belly ; ringlets on top of head sweeping over
coppery breast of blond ; scarred tongue poking between teeth.
between lips, nose prodding towards balls, heating edge of arse
salted by sweat ; belly shuddering ; Wazzag rolling backwards
between spreading legs, jamming back against wall, gripping knees
of blond in fists, burying mouth between relaxed buttocks, baring
teeth, nibbling, biting encrusted membranes of arse ; one hand
springing in front of worker's sweating thigh, grabbing overheated
member, bending shaft back towards balls ; other hand, abandoning
knee, sliding, damp, between downy buttocks shining, hairs flattened
by sweat, grasping glans, pulling member underneath balls — sweat
flowing between curls, along swollen veins ; Wazzag, burying mouth
further forward into arse, touching glans squashed onto lower edge
of arse, with tip of tongue ; back of worker's knees vibrating, damp.
against elbows of whore ; worker slumping down, farts bathing
Wazzag's muzzle ; Wazzag standing up, holding on to buttocks —
shit fermenting in blood —, fingers, palms, sliding over membranes
smeared with saliva, between effervescent buttocks of blond

worker's cheek, head bent, rubbing Wazzag’s swollen mouth

meanwhile, frizzy worker, emerging from arms of whore-master —
going back up to bedroom, fist pressing back, deeper into arse
driller's jissom discharged in volleys onto inner slope of retracted
buttock —, stopping, legs spread, stitches of fly gaping, exposing
root of folded member re-ejaculating, under jeans, onto side of thigh
squeezed in denim, opening flaps of denim jacket. approaching
mouth swollen, head flung forwards, loins arched, pressing breasts
against those of blond worker buggered ; Wazzag pulling thighs
away from buttocks, heaving, stiffened against wall, breath held back
+ blond worker, frizzy worker, nipples joined, mouths kissing
discharging, heads jerking, teeth clenched, breath diverted through
nostrils ; blond worker raising feet ; buttocks, convulsed, rolling

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ejaculating member ; shaking feet, heels trampling, crumpling sticky
shorts beneath toes ; frizzy worker placing shoed foot onto shorts,
jissom, spittle, sweat squeezed out, squelching under rope of
espadrilles ; / dog-master, throwing gun, cartridge-pack, under table,
taking off pants, falling onto mattress, tip of bare foot kicking gluey
pants onto shoulder of sauce-boy turned back towards gun ; boy,
spinning around, member bouncing over shorts pulled down to mid-
thigh. rolling head to one side, biting, sniffing distended pouch of
pants caught on shoulder, letting pants fall down over belly, over
arched member, gathered up between two fingers ; tongue
protruding, frothing, from thin lips seamed mauve, boy stuffing pants
inside fist, kneading, opening fist, member bouncing up, lifting ball
of wet cloth to lips, kissing ; dog-master, member pressed back onto
belly, fists crossed under nape, scrutinizing photos of naked women
clouded by heat from two entangled bodies ; foot moving up along
wall, damp toes touching woman spread open with outlines inflamed,
nail of big toe scratching clitoris stretched by spread of thighs,
heavy breasts lifted by upward spread of arms, rubbing — on throat,
under one breast —, rectangular marks of bandages removed for
pose : pale patches on grimy cuticle blushing red ; other leg, lifted,
stretched out, foot resting on thigh of sauce-boy standing close ;
member springing out, standing stiff between legs open with
muscles of thighs, network of veins on calves, rippling ; head rolling
over top of bed, into hollow of shoulder, mouth breathing onto spit-
soaked sheet — transparent, revealing barley-dust beneath —,
foam frothing in vermilion cheeks : .. « ... I've shot all my night-juice
: you may now swallow the filaments, trailing in water, pulled from
these pants that | order you to wash in the trough, to hang out on
barbed wire in fiery wind, on the double... after, while my pants are
drying, I'll keep you in my bed, cook you in my sauce.. come, bend
down, whistle : let me touch you, feel you, hear you... I'll make a
Special sauce.. kiss my mouth, my glans, give it some spice.» ; / on
dune, curly-haired worker, knee digging between thighs of shaved
Girl, pushing girl back onto sand ; fists plunging into slope, ridge

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collapsing, silky, over forearm ; top of shaved girl's body, breasts
emerging from dress, falling back onto shaded slope ; curly worker
licking hot nipples sliding under nostrils, under lips ; in girl's open
mouth, tongue mottled mauve, pearly, scintillating, reflecting rays
filtered through thorny branches ; vulva oozing against knee
squeezed in patched jeans : curly worker, lifting chest, shaking
inflamed head : shiver shaking nape, under sweat ; hands covering
belly of girl trembling under heated cloth, enveloping breasts
nipples settling into hollowed palms, squeezing globes thrown out of
orbit by movement tipping body backwards, nipples bulging between
two fingers ; two threads of foam running from corner of shaved
girl's lips up to eyes, down over wings of nose ; member of curly-
haired worker stiffening, stretched flesh soaking up sweat ; worker
slumping down, elbows grafting into sand, fingers interlacing under
nape of shaved girl, girl's breasts, squashed under torso, supporting
shifting torso shaken by panting, floating ribs protruding ; worker's
mouth breathing into mouth of shaved girl — lips stuck together —

, aspiring her breath : member digging into vulva opened gluey ; two
movements of breathing, one to other, each aspiring other's breath
genitals clamping together at same time ; froth filling girl's mouth in
time with jissom filling vulva ; eyes of worker, opened wide, rolling
above closed eyes of girl ; curly worker moaning, sweat coating
coccyx, dripping down in slit of arse, sticking jissom-spattered denim
of jeans to coccyx ; rearing up in orgasm, thread of spit vibrating
scintillating from jaw down to shaved girl's throat ; hands spread out
Propped on sand, worker's belly pressing against belly of girl, top
button of fly fitting over girl's navel, through cloth hitched up

jissom worked into flesh, into nerves, into muscles of hams, of
thighs, rushing to pubis, pouring into member ; simultaneous spasms
of breath from girl, from worker, shaking foamy filament ; worker's
watery snot running along thread down to girl's lips ; thumbs of
worker scraping sweat over breasts, hands spinning, shaken
alongside belly, delving into tufted fly, swollen root of member.
rubbing gluey seam of vulva ; girl, fingers kneading sand, arching

108 Pierre Guyotat
loins — worker's member, half expelled, discharging fluid jissom —
, lifting breasts underneath mouth of worker sucking up thread,
twisting filament around nipple, raising neck, throwing back head
helmeted with sweat ; breath of two bodies, transmitted along
thread, shaking knot coiled on nipple ; fart separating seam of jeans
from skin of arse, contracting member ; eyes, fingertips. iliac,
bruised ; women, napes propped against bundles of barley, drooping
again into sleep, dark worker tipping shaved worker, flecked with
flies, over into sand ; perfumes of brothel, of garden, of dune, of
bodies rolling in sand, crossing, caught in tree over nostrils open in
venereal slumber ; club-foot crouching in corner of passage, teeth
detaching scraps of meat trampled underfoot by drillers ; scrap of
singlet, soiled with grease, with jissom, with shit, hanging from neck
; frizzy worker, blond worker, kneeling, turning Wazzag over, kissing,
prodding, pulling at limbs, Wazzag’s head striking steps of latrine ;
workers taking ears of whore in hands, making ear-rings tinkle near
their tympana : whore's head reddening ; two drillers, each with one
of Wazzag's legs clamped between thighs, pulling apart — member
of whore blooming between his thighs spread wide —, drillers
grinding own members into Wazzag’s thighs squeezed ; spitting onto
hands of whore, splayed over concrete, butting heads hard against
torso ; hands together grabbing his member ; Wazzag’s legs
stiffening under buttocks of drillers ; in member squeezed, jissom
forcing fingers ; whereupon, workers sitting on Wazzag's knees,
crushing contracted muscles, hollowing pubis with fists, intercepting
flux of jissom ; knees driving Wazzag back, hitching whore up into
latrine ; club-foot, on fists, on knees, walking towards street-door :
door swinging in wind, wooden floor, splashed with panel-beater's
jissom, scintillating, swept with sand ; club-foot, swollen member
dragging on floor, farts rippling over shiny seam of buttocks with fire
Outdoors seizing jissom-smeared head, wealed shoulders ; black
Child pulling toy over dune ; shit scraped from arse of butcher's lad
Smearing hands clenched around string ; club-foot, shaking heavy
Member hanging at loins, climbing up dune, placing head onto oil

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drum mounted on wheels, letting head slump, light, detached from
rest of body ; child dragging cart up to ridge of dune, mauve sand
struck by fire ; child, dropping toy, stretching out, naked, black skin
glimmering violet under fire, ridge barring pubis, tip of body thrown
back over farther, cooler slope of dune ; toy rolling down under
kneeling body of club-foot ; latter youth; stocky, tremulous, fists, feet
curved back, throat, chin bathed in slaver, head thrown back panting.
grabbing heels of child, burying head between polished buttocks, tip
of tongue touching palpitating arse ; child's torso hollowing sand .
club-foot pressing splayed hand between frail shoulder-blades of
child, onto top of burning back ; whole body shuddering rimmed with
fuming sand ; in cirque carpeted with ash, dogs, bitches, attacking
wounded vulture ; heavy red bitch nuzzling under splayed wing.
catching vulture's neck ; breasts, arse, uncovered in twisting
movement, shining through flying ash ; club-foot, member dragging.
swollen with jissom, over child's simmering buttocks, scrutinizing veil
of ash whipped up by red tufts of raised tail, advancing, thighs
clasping loins, chest, back — child stretching arms forwards, over
sand —, shoulders ; child raising fuzzy head rolled under gluey balls
of club-foot, turning head, snapping up garnet-red glans of youth

club-foot slumping onto cooler slope ; child licking heel of youth

club-foot thrusting hands into veil of ash splashed with blood
seizing dugs, thigh, of bitch — coat reddened with sweat ; bitch
haunches arched, torso flattened against sand, tearing at vulture’s
throat ; tip of heavy wing striking club-foot's forearm ; youth pulling
hindquarters of bitch out of veil of ash, sitting up on toes, grabbing
both thighs of bitch, lifting tail with twist of torso ; sweaty tufted tail
wrapping around neck, member trained thrusting into arse of bitch

fangs of latter vibrating in wound, growl driving back frothing blood
fangs tearing at throat, digging into lungs, crushing heart : jissom.
after quick friction, shaking — hot, curdled, heavy — club-foot's
member, filling shitty arse ; bitch tossing, pushing, nuzzling heart in
ashes, club-foot steadying breath, sprawled back on fallen rump
torso, shoulders, bottom of neck trembling with slow spurts, pearly

110 Pierre Guyotat
tears forming in eyes ; small black dog looming up, burying muzzle
into club-foot's buttocks, licking sexual cluster, jissom driven back
dripping ; tufted brush of red bitch tensing along neck of youth ;
ashes settling on naked body, sweaty, of club-foot ; black child
letting body slide, legs spread, down slope ; fire scorching
protruding glans ; straightened up beside club-foot, under veil of
ash, offering hands for black bitch to lick, beneath club-foot's sexual
cluster grasped in fingers : above fresh, fragile wrist of child, crusts
caked onto curls cracking, crumbling in club-foot's arse — youth
again rubbing knees against flanks of red bitch ; powdered jissom,
shit, running over wrists ; licked hand of child squashing tongue of
black bitch against arse of club-foot ; hams of latter vibrating ; rush
of jissom shaking ischium ; held in child's hand, flesh enrobing bone
vibrating, heated by jissom ; other bitches, dogs, pulling at other
wing of vulture, bloody claws pressed onto raised feet of youth ;
black bitch, pulling muzzle from under buttocks of club-foot, licking
dried lips of child, member thrusting, touching sand ; under fingers
of child, club-foot's balls emptying ; black bitch nuzzling between
child's thighs, sniffing at member, placing legs onto thighs, licking
slender torso, pushing child back onto sand, arching rump, lowering,
impaling arse onto small member ; front legs clasping torso, armpits
: child, stiffening legs, grabbing claws, bringing claws towards mouth
contracted by erection ; jissom spurting : pearly, forced back out of
arse of bitch, dripping over bluish down of pubis ; child rubbing
nape onto sand ; hind claws of bitch scratching hips ; tail of bitch
curled back, wrapping around stretched member — arse biting glans
: child kissing claws ; clubfoot standing upright among dogs, member
Stretched, soft, sticky, reddened, in hollow of clasped thighs, hands
Crossed over lowered nape, rag stuck to breast by sweat ; bitches
driven out of mélée, licking youth's member, buttocks, leaving trails
Of blood, flesh, grey down, on scaly cuticle ; in mélée, carcass flung
dismembered over muzzle, falling back onto rumps of dogs ; fangs
Catching together, eyes brushing close, bulging from orbits ; club-

stepping over bitches — tongues wrapping around gluey balls

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body, shitting, leaning on right side of loins ; shit running over
mound of right buttock, spreading along fleshy fold squashed onto
sand ; bitches digging up sand soiled with shit, licking, carrying off
handfuls in mouths — sucked while scrutinizing eye, rolled under
beating lashes, of club-foot ; club-foot’s belly, loins, forcing
excrements, wrist wiping away spit expelled at corner of lips ; dogs
pulling carcass out of veil of ashes, over beside soiled arse of youth
covered by one bloody wing of vulture, articulation crushed against
hip by fangs of one-eyed bitch ; club-foot stuffing bone, stripped
bare, between thighs, clutching, striking at one-eyed bitch biting at
knee covered with vulture’s membranous brain ; leaning on bone
straightening up, buttocks smeared with blood mixed with downy
feathers ; planting white feather in hair, lifting rag over mouth
limping up slope, bitches, dogs devouring carcass enrobed in shit

child — half-covered by black bitch slumped down, impaled on
member pressed back — moaning, leg stiffened, transparent
vibrating beneath fire ; / in sand, hands of dark worker stroking
shaved worker's skull ; two bodies, hugged in jeans from navel to
heel, writhing, twisting close, on top, underneath, alongside, all
around ; twisting of limbs creasing jeans : folds, seams, stretched
spitting frothy jissom ; one hand of blond, streaked with cuts
crammed with grease — other polished ochre gripping, pulling at
fleshy folds of belly of Wazzag buggered —, spread out on wall
coated with saltpetre, contracting tense — frizzy worker's member
crushing member of blond exhausted against rim of whore’s arse

jissom spurting from member of blond, splashing member of frizzy
worker ; glans of latter capped with deposit of jissom spurted by
accident, touching depths of Wazzag's arse, rubbing scorched sides
stinging ; whore grasping at sticky ejaculating member pressed, by
blond driller stepping aside, against hip under elbow of frizzy driller
barring belly of whore with arm, — rolling member against creased
loins of frizzy driller ; frizzy driller's espadrille, soaked in puddle of
urine trapped at centre of nest of turds, settling against foot of

—, crawling on knees over slope, hand hollowing sand beneath

112 Pierre Guyot
whore, drawing up along hams, spurts contracting, lifting thigh of
buggering worker ; jissom of blond running over curls of Wazzag's
leg, mixing with shit squashed against ham by espadrille ; glans of
Wazzag, closed over jissom accumulated since buggering date-picker
in morning darkened by downpour, scraping at saltpetre ; hand of
frizzy worker smoothing glans between two fingers ; blond worker
spreading jissomy hand over Wazzag's face, straining forwards,
kissing lips, nostrils, gluey eyes of whore, through fingers ; tears
shaking eyelids of whore ; lips of blond worker tracking trail of tears
— salty, corroding layer of jissom —., lips drinking foam from corner
of mouth ; Wazzag’s hand, reddened by rush of blood, fingers
spread, covering hand of blond ; blond kissing hand, groping under
Wazzag's chest towards other hand held back flecked with egg.
pulling reddened hand back onto hands interlaced over face, drawing
face near to whore's face, hidden, kissing chin, lapping up jissom
dripping : at same time, frizzy worker jerking, farting, nibbling salty
curls flattened by sweat over nape of whore, arms squeezing latter's
twisted torso — vomit, abrupt, filling mouth ; perfume exhaled from
Wazzag's lips, through vibrating spittle, alerting drillers : blond
driller stepping aside, slow, pulling back hand, face, springing out of
latrine ; frizzy worker lifting arms from shaken torso, pulling out
penis — stray membrane, caught on glans, bouncing at edge of arse
—, pushing whore towards back of latrine, coming out, nose
pinched, closing door ; Wazzag stumbling ; chin thumping on foot-
slab, top ringlets of hair sticking into nest of turds ; vomit flowing
from mouth, onto foot-slab, sliding into hole, bordering nest of turds
+ driven back into nostrils squashed against foot-slab, Wazzag
Suffocating ; feet, caught under door, sprayed by drillers with
deflected jet from tap, tied together — sprinkled with Vim — with
Spongy floor-cloths pulled off water-pipes ; Wazzag rising up
Propped on elbows, wiping : gluey ringlets on saltpetred wall, lips
Soiled with scraps of regurgitated fat on intact foot-slab ; blond
Worker trampling on Wazzag's soaked shorts ; / club-foot crouching,
Pushing street-door with forehead ; on fists, on knees, drawing back

Eden Eden Eden 113
towards darkened corner of room ; drillers entwined, whistling
shifting into corner, kicking club-foot over onto belly, scraping
buttocks with tarred rope of espadrilles ; club-foot purring ; drillers
fists lifting feet, spitting onto soles, rubbing soles onto buttocks of
youth — cuticle blushing red ; hitching up club-foot in corner
marked with spots of dried jissom ; frizzy worker drawing aside
leaning back on wall, thumbs slipped into front pockets of jeans.
fingers pressed over fly distended by penis ; blond worker, wearing
only bandage, espadrilles, pubic fleece bloodied ochre by sweat from
wound, hands striking streaming fat of club-foot's buttocks, pressing
knees, belly, breasts, lips, against those of youth, sniffing, farting

gurgle shaking throat, black finger-nail of youth touching vibration

blond driller pulling away, opening, pressing hand onto club-foot's
nape ; club-foot suffocating — fingers of blond digging into front of
throat —, kneeling, huddling, pressed back down into corner ; blond
worker, with foot, laying youth flat out on tiles : crouching down
pressing two fists together onto torso, elbow digging into sexual
cluster between thighs — separating, slow, cool, revealing grimy
sweat in folds of groin ; fists delving under torso, forcing spleen
kidney, intestines: contracted head of youth groaning, crystalline
with each compression ; hand of blond worker digging down, seizing
psoas : head, mute, vibrating ; whereupon, same hand, clenched
moving up over torso, forcing serrated muscle, other hand jerking
groping — fingers spread, half-closed, spread, joined —, towards
source of cry, reaching aortic arch, blocking cry ; frizzy worker
scraping tight-clothed buttocks against wall ; fingers of blond worker
marking in grimy sweat over top of youth's body ; finger-nails of
frizzy worker clawing deep inside moist, sandy pockets of jeans

sweat crowning knees squeezed in jeans ; hands of blond, feverish.
Pressing into flesh of trunk, forcing flesh through clefts of skeleton
; club-foot's member striking elbow ; blond worker, hands resting on
torso, straddling youth, lowering belly, drawn down by weight of
slimy sexual cluster, onto top of thighs held fully spread, psoas
straining ; club-foot's penis, pressed back, forcing bandage ; frizzy

114 Pierre Guyotat
worker, drawing away from wall, raising leg, placing foot onto pink
buttocks of blond, pressing : club-foot's member, rolled hard under
sweeting belly of blond, heating — shoed feet of blond pulling at
feet hams of worker resting, vibrant, against contracted hams of
youth —, ejaculating : jissom filling open edge of bandage ; club-
foot crossing relaxed legs over legs of blond ; blond worker — frizzy
worker pulling foot away —, leaning back against wall, rising forth
from sticky body, stiffening legs on one side, other side of trunk of
youth, inclining top of body, tip of thumb expelling jissom caught
under open edge of bandage ; jissom splashing over club-foot's
breast ; tip of blond worker's wet espadrille grinding into sexual
cluster of youth, lifting softened penis ; upright, fists against belly,
blond pressing heel onto jissomy glans ; club-foot, arms raised
shielding eyes refreshed after discharge, again spreading thighs,
swinging buttocks, puffing out belly, bit by bit, under spongy heel of
blond — mantled wad pulling, smoothing skin of loins stuck under
grimy bandage ; / Wazzag rising onto knees, leaning buttocks back
against door, flinging one arm — coated in dry jissom — sideways,
lifting bolt with flick of thumb ; door opening, Wazzag, twisting torso,
straightening freed feet, arising, walking towards garden : feet,
coated with powder, scintillating on sandy tiles ; at edge of garden,
at Wazzag's feet, embalming heavy air with perfume of farts, of
jissom wrung from folds of jeans filled with fermented flesh, dark
worker, shaved worker, mouth to mouth, purring modulated ; Wazzag
Setting shoulder against scorching doorpost, sighing, scratching
chest ; torso spreading, square, towards fire : two drillers, sweat
flooding eyes, jeans burning buttocks, fire beating onto temples,
Separating entwined limbs, crouching, rising : members pointing
hard, gleaming, lips of glans crammed with moistened sand :
Wazzag, arse scorched, shifting along wall, to cages ; drillers
Pressing close, driving whore back with heat of members only,
towards middle of garden : Wazzag narrowing pock-marked eyelids ;
€ars flattened, vibrating at temples, pointed ; hairs bristling on chest.
n thighs, fluffy down on nape, on shoulders, fiery rays skimming

Eden Eden Eden 115
over body inclined, loins arched, advancing in small steps, shifting
buttocks to one side — penis of one worker touching hip : eyes
closed, shaved worker thrusting penis forward, spitting, foot kicking
sand over Wazzag's hams : dark worker, drawing aside. standing
straight in front of whore, eyes sunk into sockets, legs spread, taut
seam bridling arse, grabbing shining penis, spitting, spreading foam
over glans, springing forth, pressing whore down onto knees, glans
wet with spittle forcing lips : shaved worker, wiping — with sand -

shit drying on skull, lips, cheeks, leaning back against tamarisk
masturbating, pointing ringed penis towards Wazzag's back : hot
spurts striking, freshening, scorched cuticle, dripping down over
shoulder-blades, along sweaty vertebrae, as far as. coccyx — jissom
hanging onto curls of arse ; skin twitching : Wazzag's teeth
clenched, enclosing sandy glans : shaved worker's espadrille
spreading fried jissom over back, from nape down to buttocks

shaved worker scratching arse against tamarisk, penis, arched
spurting scanty discharge over folds of jeans : breathing in long
draughts, breath sweeping, cool, over trace of jissom on whore’s
back ; knee of dark worker striking shoulder, Wazzag releasing teetn
fingers taking pitted penis, pressing shaft down towards mouth
caressing curve with palm of hand, opening mouth, wedging penis
amongst deposits of vomit : laughter, stifled, quick, puffing through
nostrils ; penis rolling in cheek, Wazzag sucking ; dark worker
touching — with finger-tips — cheek swollen by penis, tensing legs.
removing hand : whore, saliva swallowed, palpating penis through
vermilion cuticle of cheek ; shaved worker crouching, rubbing veined
skull on shoulders of whore, Squeezing neck between soiled fingers.
settling skull against nape, wiping squashed nostrils against fleshy
folds on neck : snot mixing with jissom : shaved worker standing up
tip of espadrille smearing jissom, snot, through downy curls

crouching, sitting in sand, spreading thighs, bringing sand back over
Sexual cluster pulled slimy from fly, pouring sand inside fly, leaning
back against trunk, dozing : penis hardening inside Wazzag's cheek.
jissom spurting, shaking, filling cheek : Wazzag, pulling penis out.

116 Pierre Guyotat
rinsing mouth with jissom ; dark worker squatting, sitting down in
saturated sand, stretching out on side, Propped up on elbow,
pushing Wazzag alongside onto back, pouring sand onto nipples —
sand running between fingers wrinkled in embraces —, sprinkling
tint cones of sand over middle of torso, down to navel : whore
immobile, body insonorous, scrutinizing blue fire : sand running into
fold of groin : dark worker spreading sand over breasts, uncovering
nipples, settling lips around teats ; hair heavy with smell of bugs —
fluffs of down caught in blood-sucked cuts on scalp — stuffed
against throat of whore : penis of latter, upturned, striking belly —
covered by dark worker's hand : swinging between doorposts at edge
of garden, blond driller, hitched naked onto shoulders of club-foot :
frizzy driller, penis ejaculating, packing club-foot's head into one leg
of shorts, laughing, striking bagged head : bandage staining curls on
chafed neck of youth, farts rippling over downy hairs on shoulder-
blades ; flick of hamstring throwing club-foot off-balance, grabbing
empty leg of shorts, guiding blind head, rough : in rush across hot
sand, youth lurching following each movement of head ; in corner of
garden — frizzy worker, penis rigid, pressing back of slumping
body, cornering, buggering club-foot, head of youth buried, in front,
between smooth buttocks of blond worker —, pink pisé crumbling
under furious finger-nails of blond : regular rubbing of frizzy
worker's jeans on club-foot's buttocks irritating blond : blond rising
onto youth's shoulders, spreading arse, closing buttocks around face
Of frizzy worker contracted in erection ; hands covering bagged face
Of club-foot, squashing palpitations rippling thin khaki cloth : eyes,
Veins, lips ; club-foot choking, worker spitting into open hand, sliding
Gripping hand over lips of youth ; heels striking groin of youth lifting,
Spreading thigh : pissing ; frizzy worker — hands, plastered against
Club-foot's belly, detecting heat of bladder —, flinging one wrinkled
hand onto penis shaken by stream, grabbing, squeezing member :
Youth, torso sighing, drawing urine back into bladder ; whereupon,
frizzy worker removing hand, enveloping heel of blond, heaving,
holding heel tight : sweat from hand bathing — heated by erection

Eden Eden Eden 117
— tarred rope of espadrille ; blond worker's penis again hardening
curved over club-foot's scabby skull : ejaculation opening mouth of
frizzy worker buried in buttocks of blond ; relaxing legs resting
against legs of youth : sweat, rapid, cooling on pale skin, finger
slipped under root of member, lifting ; rag stuck to arse ; throat
expelling pink vomit ; vomit splashing under buttocks of blond -

face drawn away —, landing on club-foot’s croup — sweaty fuzzy
head jammed against back of youth, beneath blond’s buttocks

throat, cheeks shaken, more hot vomit burning lips, bursting over top
of youth's rump, enrobing mound of buttocks, dripping down sides.
sliding along legs as far as feet pinned on ground by weight of blond
worker, trampling vomit into sand : blond pulling club-foot's hair.
smoothing sweaty strands between fingers, detaching curls caught in
pus from abscess : head of club-foot shuddering between thighs

blond — head of frizzy worker vomit disgorged vibrating under
buttocks — rolling shiny penis in empty leg of short, wiping member
on cloth, stiffening legs before club-foot's torso, falling backwards.
again squeezing neck of youth between thighs, knees bridling jaw.
pulling at balls caught above ischium against nape, spreading balls
back over groin — throwing punch into right loin of youth turning
with small steps, frizzy worker vomiting, crushed finger-nails hooked
into loins ; blond worker pressing fists against skirting-board in
corner — frizzy worker pressing buttocks into angle, breathing in
long draughts, vomit driven back into nostrils ; elbows of blond
propped on skull of frizzy worker ; thrown backwards by knee jerked
up against jaw, pulling bottom of face out of bag as far as upper lip.
pulling mouth to right, presenting penis for club-foot to suck, feet of
youth staying stuck in sand : trunk twisting ; torso twisted, buttocks
rolling frizzy worker's rag ; blond, extending thighs, buttocks
contracting onto club-foot's clavicles, pressing nape against frizzy
worker's skull ; club-foot raising arms, joining hands on shoulder.
horny fingers gathering, lifting penis to mouth : balls of blond lying
over creased neck, spreading over top of chest ; lips of club-foot
holding glans, fingers pumping shaft : sweat advancing in fold of

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groin : jissom flooding club-foot's mouth, nostrils palpitating inside
shorts : blond worker rubbing nape, temples, face against soiled lips
of frizzy worker ; club-foot chewing on jissom, softened penis
dripping over top of breast, filament stretching down to nipple ;
under torn flaps of singlet, chest burning ; two drillers pressing
mouths together : sweat rushing into junctions of triangle : joined
lips of drillers, member of blond again forcing club-foot's teeth,
hardened member of frizzy worker — scrap of cloth distended —
touching depths of club-foot's arse ; seam of shorts, slid down over
sweat, bridling upper lip of youth : buttocks of blond, lifted over
clavicles by stiffening of legs, pulling away from scaly cuticle of
upper back ; laughter shaking cheeks of drillers, tongues rubbing
together inside mouths, outside lips : muscles, tendons, nerves,
bones of blond’s left leg vibrating against club-foot’s jaw ; muffled
laughter shaking blond worker's torso, belly, right down to stiffened
member, licked, pumped, incessantly, by club-foot purring
modulated, sweat soaking shorts over position of nostrils, ridge of
nose, eyebrows ; frizzy worker spitting vomit — bathed in mucus
drawn from cheeks — level with lips of blond ; blond pressing feet
together, overlapped ; in erection, mouth purring, moaning : member
ejaculating, legs relaxing, folding, heels, toes, rolling over club-foot's
member ; spurts splashing face bound in shorts ; mouth of youth,
swollen, seeking glans ; member again hardening : red bitch, inside
brothel, licking freshest trace of jissom, on tiling, on wood floor of
saloon, in corner — downy plumes of vulture stuck in deposits —,
diving into passage, licking flow of jissom, of shit, of vomit under
closed doors of latrines, springing out into garden, lapping up trails
of jissom on sand, panting, snuffing air, coming up to legs of club-
foot, sniffing at sexual cluster, spreading thighs, pressing hairy arse
against upper thigh of youth ; club-foot, upper lip squeezed back
Over gums under sticky hem, hands raised from shoulders groping at
Croup of bitch, squashing glans against blocked arse ; heart beating
in jaw pressed by blond driller's knee ; frizzy driller's jissom burning
arse; tears veiling iris over hair, over back, of dark driller — driller

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propped on elbows against torso, snorting, clearing nostrils, elbows
sliding over back of torso, snotty fingers gathering whore's penis,
balls, lifting organs rolled, stretched, smoothed beneath finger-nails,
eyes scrutinizing veins, capillaries, pores, moistened nails scraping
at dirt — / Wazzag scrutinizing naked limbs of women dozing ; club-
foot's member grafting into arse of red bitch ; sandy tufts of tail
whipping loin of youth, fat of slumped buttocks of blond, brushing
over frizzy worker's thigh hugged in jeans ; frizzy worker thrusting
hands onto club-foot's belly, tips of fingers, thumb, pulling at root of
club-foot's member — pressed by arse of bitch, youth closing
bandaged eyes ; frizzy worker wiping jissomy phalanges on curls of
sweaty coat ; blond worker kissing, between soiled flaps of denim
jacket, vomit flowing from corner of frizzy worker's lips down to
bottom of throat, aspiring perfume, engorged throat vomiting on
vomit ; teeth nibbling solid emissions, gluey lips rolled back.
adhering to neck of frizzy worker, slapping over rippling muscles —
last filament oozing from frizzy worker's glans pressed into club-
foot's arse — ; with one flick of thumb, frizzy worker pulling glans
of club-foot away from arse of bitch, squeezing member in fist.
twisting shaft, lifting left leg — member, balls, stretched —.
thrusting leg into flank of bitch ; club-foot rolling member of blond
in cheek, swallowing chewed jissom, rolling own member, swollen
with jissom, against side of thigh, to point of ejaculation : member
shaken, juice splashing leg, seething in glans ; bitch, shoved aside.
rising, coming to lick jissom from leg, muzzle smitten by frizzy
worker's heel ; hand of frizzy worker slapping club-foot's belly.
mouth panting over hair of blond — vomit streaming down into
opening of jeans ; bandage fuming ; bitch, jissom lapped up.
springing forth ; replete, jumping over trellis, slipping between
bodies, breathing sweat of women, sprawling beside heads joined.
keeping one eye fixed on sexual cluster of blindfold youth —
distant, veiled, quick, by convulsive sandy hand of frizzy worker
again buggering arse —, dropping down drowsy onto shaded sand :
blond aspiring frizzy worker's jerky breath, sigh of orgasm.

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ejaculation at acute expulsion of filaments ; club-foot, torso
seething, dropping onto knees ; blond collapsing over frizzy worker
uncoupled ; club-foot sliding neck out from between swinging legs,
unyoking, arising, limping over to body of Wazzag, shaking bagged
head : dark worker, releasing Wazzag's sexual cluster, grabbing
empty leg of shorts, pulling at head of club-foot, kissing mouth,
pushing bagged head backwards — behind, over nape, empty leg of
short hanging —, grabbing Wazzag by hair, bagging head in empty
leg, down to edge of upper lip ; two whores crouching, back to back,
moving over sand, heavy rumps rubbing together, jamming arse to
arse, wrists flailing before mouths, saliva frothing at corners of
bridled lips, farts mixing underneath, through curls of arse ; dark
worker, standing, wiping sand from lenses, stretching, pulling up
jeans slipped down, spreading jissomy fingers, wiping fingers on
buttocks — flesh proliferating under worn denim ; blond worker,
frizzy worker, vomiting, walking, bodies apart, fingers interlaced,
kneeling before dark worker shaking tamarisk, waking shaved worker
; belching, grabbing fly of shorts stretched between two heads,
standing whores upright side by side, Wazzag pointing forwards,
club-foot backwards, lifting legs of blond worker overturned on
sand, pressing legs into Wazzag's hands ; lifting legs of frizzy worker
overturned, penis ejaculating, on sand, pressing legs into club-foot's
fists, toes curved back against belly of youth ; whores stirring, club-
foot bowing head, Wazzag throwing head back, club-foot advancing,
Wazzag reversing, Wazzag squeezing blond worker's feet pressed
against belly, club-foot pressing feet of frizzy worker onto hips ;
heels of blond rolling around Wazzag's member, heels of frizzy
Worker digging into club-foot's loins ; two drillers, dragged over
Sand, spreading thighs ; sand packed into armpits ; dark worker
holding shaved worker's shoulders, buttocks, pushing body
backwards onto sand, behind frizzy worker dragged forwards. sliding
feet of former under armpits of latter ; frizzy worker pressing arms
Over tarsus ; dark driller straddling blond, crouching, impaling arse
— jeans pulled down to knees — onto penis erect with violet blood

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of naked worker, falling backwards onto wealed trunk, slapping feet
onto Wazzag's thighs, searching for pectineus with flat of heel,
pressing ; Wazzag stirring ; sweaty wrists pulling at feet of blond :
club-foot leaning forward, arching loins ; frizzy worker flinging sand
over youth's raised rump ; slumping bodies sliding in sand ; arms of
blond worker, balls tickled by burning sand, squeezing torso of dark
worker, arching loins, stiffening legs — foot hardening in Wazzag's
fist ; dark worker shifting buttocks : in arse, member of blond,
nipped, swelling afresh, held snug, expelling rest of jissom aroused
under fingers, between lips of club-foot ; shaved worker, feet caught
under frizzy worker's armpits, again dozing, cheek sliding over sand
cooled by shadow of harnessed whores ; buttocks of club-foot
fuming, sweaty ; frizzy worker sucking big toe of shaved worker,
through espadrille toughened by heat ; whores dragging body
around tamarisk ; alongside pink pisé crumbling ; bodies carted
sliding in sand charged with jissom, with shit — dried, fresh ; in
shadow thrown by cage of rabbits throbbing sweaty, members
stirring, blooming, pubis inflamed : fire, piercing film of jissom.
beating into shaft, glans fuming ; grime flowing over Wazzag's body.
in sweat, oozing from between eyelids of club-foot level with hem
binding upper lip, flowing along fold of cheek, dripping over chin ;
tings of grime : dust, shit, jissom, blood, melting around Wazzag's
glans ; frizzy worker's tongue emerging from mouth, steaming.
plastered cool onto incandescent cheek ; tufted ringlets at top of
Wazzag's hair, waving out of leg of shorts, glimmering ; sweat of
fingers moistening silky cloth of stretched shorts, in fibroid patches
; Club-foot, bowed down tugging, sweating from scalp ; pus of
abscesses bridled over occiput, cloth transpierced, scintillating :
sweat of croup streaming over coccyx, blond worker's member.
running dry, retracting in dark worker's arse ; member of dark
worker, softened, sticking, arched over bottom hem of fly, onto seam
of crotch ; frizzy worker, torso stripped bare by sliding over sand.
jeans pulled back up to navel, opened, annealed penis rolled back
onto flap of fly, perspiring armpits pressing feet of shaved worker —

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fire closing mouth half-opened in sleep, glans dried in nauseous fits
; Wazzag's member, concealed head fuming, darting rigid, shadow
entering mouth of dark worker, falling towards corner of lips of
blond : glans twinkling, chops scintillating, pubic fleece opening
stretched ; club-foot, heavy arched member bouncing back with
extension of legs, articulated from slumping pubis ; shadow of
inclined torso covering member, blood blooming in glans thrust
forward out of shadow — seething jissom shining through rosy
membrane ; whores halting bodies before entrance to passage :
whore-master returned downstairs, crouching, touching dozing
bodies, palpating pectineus, sliding thumb under arch of drooping
penis, pressing penis back against bottom of belly, groping at gluey
balls, at groin — powdered jissom running in fold —. arising,
pointing Wazzag's head towards trellis, wiping fingers on club-foot's
buttocks ; whores turning, sniffing back snot spread under cloth,
from grimy nostrils down to rim of upper lips, moving forward,
purring modulated under heated cloth, raucous under sweaty skin of
neck ; feet touching trellis : unyoking, throwing back bagged heads,
seeing disc of fire through damp cloth, swallowing air wafting filtered
through balmy branches ; whore-master tugging at cloth binding
heads, tossing shorts onto blond driller's belly ; Wazzag grabbing
shoulders of blond, hitching body up onto trellis : whore-master
rummaging in shorts, throwing shorts back onto throat of blond,
lifting driller's head, pulling smooth-lobed ears out from beneath
blond ringlets, folding back lobes, sliding fingers around neck,
Searching over rest of body : armpits, mouth, sexual cluster. arse,
toes ; fingers groping up over belly, tearing off bandaged wad : with
movements of respiration, encrusted wound expelling drops of ochre
blood : Wazzag slapping hand over rectangle of immaculate flesh ;
whore-master striking hand ; bandage clenched in fist, master tipping
blond body over trellis ; Wazzag hitching shaved worker up. whore-
Master rummaging in jeans, pulling out gluey coins, rummaging in
denim jacket, taking lighter, wrapping all in bandage, tipping body
Over onto body of blond ; Wazzag hitching dark worker up : whore-

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master removing sun-glasses, propping glasses on own nose,
unwrapping bandage, sticking plaster against own belly, stuffing
coins, lighter, into open side of bandage, pushing body over onto
crossed bodies of shaved worker, blond worker ; Wazzag hitching up
frizzy driller, violet eyes veiled rolling back, whore-master pulling.
from sticky pockets : coins, handkerchief, sugar-lump, dirty pants,
English brochure with nude photos, packing all under bandage ;
tipping lumpish young body over trellis ; club-foot sidling away,
whore-master grabbing member, drawing youth close, kneeling,
sliding fingers under rigid penis, finger-nail scraping at charred
pubic fleece ; thumb delving into arse, contracted ; standing, both
hands palpating loins, belly, torso, arms, opened hands, throat, jaw.
wrenching teeth apart, grasping rosy tongue — thick, pitted —.
pulling at tongue, tapping teeth, sliding finger into jissomy gullet.
pulling slimy fist out of mouth, again seizing member, standing
behind body, palpating shoulders, arms, nape, massaging buttocks.
hams, dropping member, two sticky hands spreading buttocks bathed
in steam, drawing eyes, lips, towards hot mulched tangle, blowing.
pushing back stray membrane, arising, blocking head between both
hands, separating curls stuck together, scrutinizing veins, veinlets of
skull, stepping back, plastering front of intact body against buckled
front of body of club-foot, palpating muscles, squeezing ; hand
tickling patch of pubis exposed by burning of fleece ; pulling away
from embraces, stepping over trellis, crouching, pulling shaved
worker's leg from under heaped bodies of frizzy worker, dark worker.
sliding hand into pocket of jeans, pulling out handkerchief spotted
with blood, stuffing handkerchief into pocket under bandage.
shuffling, hand stroking skin, alongside leg, down to foot : removing
espadrille ; crouching down, buttocks creased by straw of mattress
touching sand, slipping annealed espadrille onto own foot ; arising.
again straddling trellis : Wazzag, shadow of pimp shading legs.
raising arms, opening mouth, spreading thighs ; bent forward, loins
arched, spreading buttocks ; swinging head : ear-rings, coral ringing
shining, shaking free, out of greasy ringlets ; whore-master sliding

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same sticky hand between lips, under armpits, under open palms,
under sexual cluster, between buttocks, again feeling teeth between
dried lips of whore ; two whores crouching in sand beside trellis :
members — re-hardened rigid at sounds of women stirring, clothes
rustling, aroused by passage of whore-master's body embalmed
intact —, spurring sand cooled by shadow of bodies ; whore-master,
beyond trellis, climbing up low dune : on sandy slope, sharp
branches haif-shading bodies, curly-haired worker, penis pinched in
vulva of shaved girl half-buried in sand by movement, by heavy
heaving, ejaculating, fingers gripping prismatic skull, kissing scalp
pressed into mouth spread panting ; whore-master squatting, sliding
fingers into back pocket of jeans, against — through stretched
heated denim — effervescent arse sweating, pulling out tattered
banknote, folding, wrapping note in shaved worker's bloody
handkerchief ; hand, slipped under worker's groin — hip of shaved
girl pressing palm —,, delving, in streaming sweat, into front pocket
of jeans ; against phalange, through slimy cloth, beaten member
heating, vibrating : fingers pinching second note patched with Band-
Aid. pulling sticky pay-slip against girl's hip ; pimp taking, tucking
banknote under bandage, stuffing pay-slip into pocket, pulling slip
back out, unfolding, scrutinizing figures, letters, arising, climbing
back up dune, pay-slip clasped in fingers : his shadow, his perfume,
arousing hearts of women : thighs spreading, under cloth of robes ;
whore-master stepping over trellis ; bent over Wazzag, sticking pay-
slip onto jissom-smeared neck ; whore rising up on bruised heels,
throwing head sideways, scrutinizing pay-slip level with cheek, rolled
around neck held horizontal ; whore-master stepping over white body
of club-foot fallen back onto sand, bloody nausea swelling mouth
burnt under film of jissom by blue fire, master bowing nape under
shadow of passage : square croup fading into penumbra powdered
With saltpetre, undulating, massaged by fingers pulled out of cotton-
lined pouch containing workers’ coins, slimy from soiled pants of
frizzy driller ; Wazzag, revolving around tamarisk, kissing — seam of
lips annealed by kisses — pay-slip rolled onto finger ; rolling slip

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around rigid shaft of member, around base, around glans ; lifting slip
in front of eyes ; limpid, hard, eyes scrutinizing letters, figures, signs
in red, fingers following inscriptions, stroking, following lines,
curves, jumping from dot to dot, from dot to comma, from hyphen to
cipher, from cipher to letter, from capital to small, from cipher to dot
; foot trampling over cheek of club-foot ; rolling pay-slip around
jissomy neck, pressing thumb against paper, swallowing saliva —
slip waving, brushing over platysma —, bowing head : folds of flesh
tolling over sticky slip ; club-foot, knees raised, letting crushed thigh
open out slow, wiping away jissom drying over eyelashes, snorting
jissom out of nostrils ; fresh stench of Wazzag's body, limbs
spreading, falling over club-foot ; Wazzag walking, penis balls swung
heavy between thighs, towards shed — bending down, entering,
delving amongst straw, hay, picking up supple barley-stalk dried
golden, piercing corner of pay-slip, threading stalk through hole.
tying slip around neck ; curly driller's jissom drying crackling in hay
; Wazzag kneeling, pressing ear down into disturbed dust, flicking
tongue onto crackling droplets, licking fresh filaments suspended on
stalks near damp ground, filaments transformed into traces of
powder in layer near surface ; squatting, mixture of jissom, sweat.
blood, streaming out of arse opened between smooth sides of
buttocks, scorching membrane ; one hand thrust over croup, scraping
slit of arse, moaning ; sweat, run down from roots of ringlets over
forehead, stinging eyes, wrinkles rolling ; Wazzag arising : folds of
groin opening, slimy member catching dust ; pay-slip quivering over
breast ; club-foot, on horny knees, loins arched, farting beneath
fiery rays, crawling towards tamarisk, rubbing itchy arse, spread
open, against trunk ; Wazzag emerging from shed, chin pinning pay-
slip onto throat, licking paper ; hot mixture oozing from arse down
along legs ; beyond trellis, heaped bodies of drillers — women
again slumping back drowsy, bitch licking scalps — fuming ; //// blue
gangas flying up under shepherd's feet, swirling in odour of
abscesses hollowed by flint, beaks buzzing : nests palpitating
beneath acheb ; water-logged down of breasts skimming over

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shepherd’s hams ; sand mixing with laterite, pink under levelling fire
; far off, grassy backwash frothing yellow : two white camels grazing,
males female, violet flanks plastered with human excreta ; close by,
under shelter of skins mounted on two thorny poles, a woman,
young, epidermis ochre-mauve wrapped in violet cloth — fire
drinking last traces of perfume —, sleeping, baby dozing tucked into
hollow of bare armpit ; hair uncovered, mixed with sand, greasy,
blue, woman breathing inside robe reinforced over breasts with
rectangles of sackcloth sewn with black goat-hair : behind two
camels, five black goats browsing ; on tent-skin, a monkey, slender,
bluish-black, white patches under throat, inside legs, around arse,
gnawing at wart-hog's trotter poking from sand, hot leather heating
arse ; steam of sweat bathing woman's hunched body ; against
baby’s flank, hand holding bottle of white grease stopped with green
grass bung ; pearly spittle buzzing at corner of baby’s lips ; nomad
walking, distant ; shepherd holding reins of mehoui ; fist pressing
into intestines, churning charged with jissom, scales, claws ; nomad’s
head, swinging, turning towards youth : cheeks holding back sugar
in dry pockets ; eyes shining, golden, between flaps of bluish veil,
hips spurring robe embalmed by thorn-bushes blooming ; laughter
Projecting foam onto veil ; young nomad rushing at shepherd, kissing
mouth swollen in heat, hugging youth sweating under rags, teeth
exposed under blubber lip scratching at neck itchy under haik,
pulling rein from hand, tying around wrist, feet trampling grassy
ground sprinkled with debris of ganga-eggs, with snails, springing
forth, hands holding cloth over hips — akli crouching, placing lips,
cracked fist, onto patch of ground trampled by feet of master,
gulping, lapping up shells, debris, from salty lawn —, running
towards grassy border, striding high, top tufts of dry black hair
bouncing out of turban, biue robe shaken over legs ; standing still,
foot pressed into burning sand, at edge of border ; slow, light, with
breath, muscles, held back, advancing towards shelter ; monkey,
dropping wart-hog trotter, jumping down beside skin roof, tapping
woman's bare arm : baby, face brushed by monkey's tufted tail,

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waking, crying ; woman, breasts swelling sackcloth rectangles,
standing, pushing back monkey ; nomad’s member spurring robe :
veiled head turning aside ; woman rising, sand, straw, running down
over robe, emerging from shelter, keeping bottle in hand, advancing
over flattened grass, other hand covering exposed right breast
weighed down with milk pulling at seam ; toes of nomad's left foot
trampling, digging into ground, pulling up grasses ; veil palpitating
over smile ; drops of froth, at corner of lips half-open smiling,
moistening pinched folds ; shepherd standing upright chewing debris
of blades of grass reviving green, woman's shadow touching
nomad’s foot ; grass, cloth, rippling under embalmed zephyr ; sex
organs blooming under billowing cloth ; monkey pursuing swirl of
sand spinning out from behind grassy border ; woman approaching.
tipping spout against palm of hand : drop of grease filtering through
compressed grass stopper, spreading over palm ; woman lifting
upturned hand towards nomad’s mouth ; baby crawling forwards on
knees, on fists, hand gripping neck of small shriveled guerba :
nomad turning head aside : smile pushing veil down over lips :
woman pressing thumb down onto stopper, wiping thumb, quick,
greased, over boy's lips — ochre lined with mauve ; nomad holding
lips spread back ; woman pressing, keeping thumb pressed against
lower lip ; nomad, swallowing sugary spittle — drops foaming over
lower gums, wetting finger —, closing lips around thumb ; baby
placing guerba at nomad's feet ; nomad kissing, sucking thumb, baby
sucking at smooth heel : woman, bending down to pick up guerba,
lifting shrivelled bag up along bodies feverish with pressure of
blood, juices, seed ; nomad nibbling woman's thumb, traces of milk
turning sour under nail ; thighs spreading under dress ; hands
covering woman's breast drooping over creased rectangle ; guerba.
hardened, angular, caught between breasts, softening in panting
breaths ; nomad's lips slapping over woman's phalange, back of
hand, of wrist, of forearm, inside fold of elbow ; member hardening
in jerks, hollowing pubis beaten stiff by walking ; other arm, slipped
Over croup, hugging woman, lifting lips from fold of elbow, up to

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woman's cheeks ; woman, thighs spreading, sand running from pubic
fleece opened out by swelling of vulva, pushing back baby with foot,
tickling nomad’s heel, ankle, pressing bottle clenched in fist against
throbbing coccyx, half-opening lips, burying tongue into woman's
cool mouth ; monkey dancing beside swirl of laterite ; fingers of
nomad kneading over woman's croup, cloth moistened by zephyr
embalming sweaty patches perspired in sleep ; tongue gathering
lump of date-flesh from inside woman's cheek, curling back towards
own lips, into own mouth, swallowing : smile closing woman's lips
over boy's lips rolled back, bringing cheeks together ; zephyr bathing
legs under robes ; snot susurrating in nostrils, in boy's throat ; cough
raising torso, lung burning, boy turning lips aside, spitting — level
with woman's shoulder — clot of bloody snot, sticking gluey lips
back against woman's mouth half-yawning ; zephyr bathing breasts,
puffing out robe ; woman leading boy towards shelter ; woman's
rump shifting, square, under light loose robe, touching cloth with
swinging of hips ; boy, eye filling with tears, blood again scalding
lungs, caressing, tickling buttocks with long fingers lined mauve ;
breast — trembling, filled with milk —, of woman, pressing, heating,
one side of boy's chest : palm of free hand — lips, shaken by
movement of walking, rubbing against woman's mouth — covering
breast, smoothing nipple between fingers, pressing, holding breast
against burning side of chest, coughing, spitting drops of pink blood
onto grass ; baby, bluish tuft — straggling over shaved occiput —
caught in clump of razor-grass, crying, shit-caked buttocks raised,
mauve slit of arse half-open ; monkey thrusting hand into swirling
Sand, covering mouth, springing forth, jumping beside baby,
disentangling tuft, slipping finger, tongue, into slit of arse — smooth
sides glimmering in wetted fire ; boy, puffing out cheeks, kissing
mouth of woman leaning back against belly of female camel ;
hugging, drawing woman towards shelter ; rolling her backwards onto
flattened grass, marked with imprint of body dozing : powdered milk
in imprint of arm drawn away from torso, blurred by imprint of baby
Sleeping tucked into armpit ; woman, buttocks touching grass,

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contracting loins, cheeks, placing bottle on sand, standing up against
boy, pushing him back outside ; enlacing fingers of both hands with
those of nomad bent forward, letting her body fall back onto
threshold of shelter : boy blocking their hands against ground,
lowering body onto woman, rubbing chest — fire fading — against
bare breast, knee pushing robe up over thighs ; bottle twinkling,
brushed by grass, grease melting ; nomad moaning, penis, buried in
cloth, sweating ; thumb rolling robe back over hip, uncovering part of
pubis, pulling at penis, fingers, quick, touching vulva opened under
curls, pushing member, with one thrust of loins, against clitoris
susurrating gluey ; swollen with blood, erect tissues of penis settling
against flesh of vagina, boy lifting head, opening mouth, sniffing,
pressing — elbow raised — palm of hand onto bared hip ; balls
softening against lower folds of vagina ; shepherd tied to camel by
rein, wandering over pasture ; camel crouching, scratching muzzle on
ground, shepherd crouching, scratching face, itchy neck, on sand.
camel straightening up, akli rising ; camel browsing, akli, bending
backwards, nibbling highest stalks ; camel lifting tail, draining bluish
urine, akli, against effervescent belly, raising thigh under rags.
pissing ; crouching, knotted flute pinching knee : sliding flute out of
knot, lifting to lips ; nomad closing woman's eyes, pouring sand over
quivering lids ; milky breath of woman — mouth open — bathing
front of veiled face ; panting breath moistening, soiling blood-
spattered veil ; shepherd sucking flute, blowing : moistened, crusts
of Hamza's jissom hardening timbre ; slime frothing in holes ; throat
swollen, wrinkles smoothing, veinlets standing out, crackling
between enlarged pores ; sweat oozing at heels ; crusts of jissom
cracking in contracted nostrils ; film of soldier's jissom covering
bottom of face beaten violaceous, glimmering, liquefied by sweat :
strident, member stiffening raising rag, flute buzzing, spitting :
nomad, lips sucking at woman's gums imbibed with milk, heaving :
torso pitching into bared breasts ; raucous cough shaking pubis.
Pressing retracted penis into vagina, lungs burning, throat expelling
clot of jissom enrobed in salty blood ; lips spitting clot, haik raised.

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over woman's head : clot catching on curled ringlets interspersed
between bands of straight hair ; eyelids throbbing under sand ;
nomad picking up fistful of sand, smoothing soiled ringlets in fist
closed over sand ; glans touching depths of vagina ; sweat sticking
to back, to coccyx, robe rolled up over tightened hams ; monkey
dragging guerba around shelter, untying neck of bottle, sliding
member into opening ; foot trampling patch of earth smoking strewn
with violet embers from hearth — trodden down all around by heels,
by toes smeared with henna, of woman, of baby —, holding back
urine in bladder, pulling member out from neck of guerba, tossing,
tying bottle over shoulders, falling backwards beside baby again
dozing slumped against other side of shelter, zephyr skimming over
pubescent scalp ; spurts throwing nomad, fists pressed into ground,
onto woman ; moaning, lips soiled, swollen, buzzing over woman's
nostrils ; whistle fading, tremulous : shepherd's spittle running out
of flute, hanging stretched down right to ground ; camel turning ;
shepherd, right hand held in rein pulled by camel's head, other hand
seizing flute, bending down, rolling whole filament around pipe ;
camel, turning neck away quick, muzzle striking shepherd's head ;
thrown off balance, rein drawn tight around wrist, akli sprawling ;
elbow, twisted : fractured ; flute rolling on ground ; shepherd,
grabbing rein in free hand, standing, moaning, spittle running pink
between lips ; placing wounded wrist in able hand, raising hand to
mouth, licking wrist, forearm, elbow heated by fracture, with cool flat
Surface of pitted tongue ; camel advancing, akli lifting two fists
before face, camel trotting, swinging towards patch of turf revived
green under zephyr, akli hooking able hand into knot of rein under
tuffled neck, suspending fractured arm from neck with rein, trotting
beside camel ; head raised, camel roaring, trotting with belly
bouncing, slaver shaken under muzzle ; woman hugging nomad’s
Veiled head against face ; fingers sliding into folds of haik, touching
lips, nostrils, cheeks, loosened jaw, ear-lobes ; under her fingers.
Smile creasing cheeks, taut skin dilating, softening, pubescent
towards ear ; fingers, sliding into neckline of djellaba tickling

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nipples, young torso exuding sweat at centre, heated by burning of
lung, sweat spreading over finger-nails, in acid droplets ; fingers,
palm, covering armpits, clavicles, vertebrae rippling under silky skin
of back, nomad heaving ; sweat dripping from hairs around nomad’s
arse, on back of balls ; jissom discharged, boy breathing in long
draughts, closing mouth, pressing fists into sand, woman flicking
wrist, rolling tired boy — penis pinched, wrung dry, in woman's hairy
cunt — beneath her, kissing, licking his mouth, his breasts through
embroidered neckline, again impaling her body on penis licked hard
; boy stiffening legs, heaving, arms spread away from torso, tensed
over sand ; cunt squeezing root of violaceous member, surge of
jissom itching at glans ; breasts pulled outside robe, heavy, humid,
spots of dried milk melting in sweat on teats, stuffed effervescent
against boy's throat ; woman arching loins, spreading thighs, flat
side of wrist bringing boy's balls against vagina, rolling balls in fold
of groin; scent of leather, wafted down by zephyr, embalming shiny
muzzies ; woman moaning, frizzy curls of hair sticking in sweat on
neck, unveiling nomad’s face, elbows propped on sand, rolling back
haik to forehead, sliding thumb between strips of supple blue hair
sweating, rooted at top of forehead, covering whole of face with
flattened palm of dry hand softened by tickling youth's tender
cuticle, wiping boy's nostrils, cleaning snotty fingers on sand, on hip
hugged in cloth ; sour cough pricking glans, duct of shaft, expelling
jerky series of bloody clots from nomad's throat, into mouth : held
back in cheeks ; rolling head to one side, moaning, tears drowning
mauve iris, spitting clots onto turf : sand soaking up clots, stalks.
moistened, reviving green ; nomad bringing lightened head in front
of woman's sunny face : tip of woman's tongue forcing lips, teeth of
boy, licking inside of cheeks, gums, tongue ; boy choking ; woman
digging hand under boy's buttock’s, kneading, through cloth, balls
settled against sand, squeezed in embroidered opening of cloth.
lifting balls back against throbbing plug of penis, vulva, sealed under
tangled ringlets, back of fist digging into pubis of boy, touching.
pinching, tickling gluey base of penis shaken by jissom drawn out of

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pubis ; jissom flowing into penis caught in cunt ; woman withdrawing
hand, carrying fingers, covered with curls, to boy's lips, rubbing
trembling fingers over cheeks ; jissom pushed back out of upturned
cunt, susurrating in curls ; monkey fondling baby's belly, pubis, with
clawed foot, baby awakened rolling onto belly, anointed feet lifted
waving, monkey jumping aside, grabbing feet, burying furry muzzle
into blue buttocks, licking fat of buttocks, back of thighs, knees,
hams, feet ; baby laughing ; monkey spitting out henna, grasping
member hardening in fur, bending buttressed against baby's body,
pointing member towards arse, touching edge of buttock : legs
spreading, baby laughing slow, raucous, shaking copper-patched
shoulders ; monkey shoving fists against baby’s armpits opening
sweaty ; monkey's member, slipped between baby's buttocks,
hardening, sharpening ; heaving, monkey writhing, scrutinizing
stratosphere — to soften member ; wrapping buttocks around
embedded shaft, fondling root, stroking baby's bare nape, grasping
fists flailing in sand, kissing hands : member, sharpened, touching
baby's arse ; baby arching loins ; sigh from woman : monkey's
forehead quivering, baby pressing opened hands over ears : monkey
withdrawing ejaculating member, straddling buttocks, springing up,
squeezing member in fist ; baby sitting up, rolling splashed buttocks
in sand, crawling towards shelter : monkey, sprawled over stretched
skin, finishing orgasm, bitter scent falling over two heads pressed
together, hair untied mixing in mouths, rustling on sand ; akli,
sprawled beside camel kneeling on turf, licking fractured arm ; blood
blackening in fold of elbow ; paralysed wrist, heating ; placing
wounded arm on knees, pressing fingers of able hand into hair,
Scratching patches of scabies on skull with edge of nail, pulling
fingers out of sweaty hair, holding drop of foam at middle of half-
Open lips, pressing pale head against neck of mehari, slowing
tespiration against accelerated heart-beats, rolling head against
Shit- caked coat ; sweat cooling over knees spread, softened penis
trailing on sand, under rag dampened with urine, with cold sweat ;
amel rubbing top of neck onto shepherd's scalp : mash of grass. of

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pink sand, oozing out of clenched jaw ; akli, abscesses chafed,
shuddering ; lifted away from torso, from refrigerated body, fractured
arm throbbing, swelling, nerves, muscles, contracting ; akli lifting
arm, able hand held flat, up beneath right ear of head tipped
sideways : arm prickling effervescent, forcing shoulder ; baby,
kneeling under shelter, between legs of monkey, stroking monkey's
humid eyes ; monkey closing knees ; baby, turned with back against
monkey's chest, sitting on gluey member, rubbing back onto chest,
nape onto lips ; eyes of monkey palpitating against occiput, long
lashes beating ; tongue protruding, licking baby’s ear ; rising zephyr
carrying off, pushing back, dissipating stagnant pockets of air :
monkey's member hardening, forcing baby's arse, hands hooking,
legs stiffened, around baby’s fragile torso ; woman lifting loins : cunt
drenched, kneeling, lowering rump over hard legs of young nomad,
stretching out arms under zephyr, raising robe, spreading thighs,
cleaning out cunt with back of thumb ; sprawling, boy covering
swelling penis with sticky cloth ; woman bending down, lifting,
gathering head in hands, pulling, turning body alongside shelter,
rolling up middle of sticky djellaba to boy's neck, pulling opening
over turbaned head ; nomad’s thin body denuded, reddened by fire
level with grass, sitting up quick flinging both hands over penis
pressed back ; woman tossing robe onto roof, setting bare knees
against sweaty back of boy sitting on haunches, pulling boy upright
with wrists slid under armpits, standing him in front of her body
reddened beneath cloth, taking his wrists, pressing wrists onto her
breasts, onto hips ; hands wrapped together, rolling her robe up to
neck ; boy, penis bouncing back touching woman's swollen belly.
stepping aside ; woman, squeezing wrists between fingers, back of
hand lifting robe, gathered at neckline, over head, tossing robe, onto
roof, on top of boy's djellaba ; boy's turban untied tumbling over
chest, gathering on erect penis pulled down by weight of cloth :
woman, hugging boy shuddering, arm wrapped around back, hand on
Coccyx, flicking away bunched cloth with raised knee, standing on
toes, again impaling body on hardened penis : nomad moaning.

134 Pierre Guyotat
pulling back : penis proliferating, tucked inside cunt ; body
buttressed, root of member stretched, covering, fondling breasts,
letting spittle run from lips over right breast pressed in woman's
palm, lifted towards lips of boy's head inclined ; sweaty body
heaving. lips sucking : muscles, menses, working over engulfed
penis, teeth teasing grimy teat : jissom, milk, squirting ; monkey in
orgasm, baby, side by side, rolling in sand ; shepherd vomiting blood
over camel's neck ; woman's hand palpating, kneading sweaty
buttocks, boy lifting lips from breast, raising milk-filled mouth
towards woman's lips ; thrust of pelvis arousing, pushing remaining
jissom — driven back inert towards hollow of pubis — into shaft,
boy, milk swallowed, biting greasy mouth of woman ; bitter milk
circulating tepid, calming feverish torso ; panting breath shifting
curly hairs of woman stuck inside boy's mouth ; breasts, shaken by
tush of milk, trembling against upper chest ; back of hand lifting
fight breast towards chin, rolling breast against sweating throat :
turban unravelling — jerking with kisses, with undulation of wrinkles
on forehead — down over face, sliding down, blinding sweaty eyes,
rubbing raw lining of lips rolled back — whole of sweaty body
shuddering ; flap of cloth gathering over curly palpitations ; boy's
balls, suspended beneath woman's clitoris, exuding sweat mixed with
jissom, with pink blood ; penis heating, woman throwing arms around
boy's neck, squeezing neck in joints of elbows, hitching up onto
toes, hanging, knees raised, around neck of boy staggering,
Spreading thighs, forcing boy's pubis with hard swollen pelvis
jerking, lifting knees, crossing feet over sweaty back of boy's
hardened hams ; heels rubbing palets detached from fascicle of
muscles, of contracted nerves ; boy, tottering, crossing long hands
under woman's buttocks — threads of jissom, of seed drawn out
over fat — lifting, heaving ; woman kissing, licking, nibbling boy's
Nape under flap of turban flopping, sliding over her fingers entwined
around neck, sliding down along croup, cool underneath, amassing,
— moistened, dotted with small holes pierced by blood, by pus of
boils on occiput, at top of forehead, on temples —, over woman's

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feet crossed contracted ; boy, one side of head fondled, one side
tubbed : forehead, temples, ears, cheeks, jaw, of woman's head,
panting, thrown forward with thrusting of pubis, flung back — pubis
withdrawn gluey ; under armpit opened with stretching of arms, blue
hair, smoothed back by sweat, bristling, curling ; dry farts from boy's
slimy arse rippling over woman's knees joined ; zephyr skimming,
bathing, enveloping both rumps ; muscles standing out along boy's
outstretched arms ; in folds, sweat exuded, rusty ; baby, underneath
camel, pushing back — with elbow, belly, foot, forehead — monkey
Pressing close, feverish, holding ejaculating member between furry
fingers ; baby spitting, fist striking member ; free fist scratching,
scraping at slit of arse flooded with bitter seed ; monkey, thrusting
loins, jumping onto baby's shoulders, clenching feet, tottering.
swinging, dragging gluey member over baby's shaved scalp, around
occipital tuft, folding knees, settling sweaty haunches onto occiput.
stretching member along baby's cheek, pressing tip against closed
lips, smeared with saliva ; baby, calmed, opening lips, sucking at
member ; monkey fondling forehead, pressing — eyes roving —
root of member, pushing semen up towards glans, cupping hand
beneath member, fondling cheek sucking ; semen filling cheek.
flowing out over tongue ; baby, semen swallowed, biting member,
spitting, crying, flesh of member transpierced by new teeth, saliva
mixed with semen ; monkey, nails scratching at baby's lips, yelping :
baby shaking shoulders, dropping member, swallowing, kneeling on
spattered turf ; monkey springing forth, one lightened hand holding
grazed member, trotting, bounding, sliding, slipping between high
grasses, crawling over turf revived green, arriving alongside akli
flopped onto back, swooning along camel's neck, knees trembling
under rag, inert fractured arm, blackened on both sides of elbow.
barring bloodless face ; monkey snuggling between thighs of akli.
settling furry haunches over cold pubis, grimacing, wiping member
on rag covering sexual cluster, placing member in fold of groin.
Pressing knees together, slapping hands — wrists crossed — over
shoulders, twitching, darting hand onto rein coiled in trampled grass.

136 Pierre Guyotat
taking, lifting rein to lips, nibbling, chewing — feverish, arse
palpitating against pubis in core of haunches —, other hand
fondling shepherd's hip through putrid rag ; rein, gnawed, giving way
: camel flinging head to one side, sprawling back onto sand, rolling,
rubbing flank on ground ; monkey wetting finger at lip, holding finger
up in zephyr ; rising, crouching beside akli, peeling back. smoothing
out tangled rags tucked around body, spreading rags over top of
body, packing them alongside, lifting fractured arm, Pulling, tussling,
arranging arm on belly, covering it — blackened, leaden — with rag
pulled out of neckline of lambskin jerkin, kneeling, both hands
opened pushing sand back towards body, snatching blades, tufts,
plumes, stalks, heaping all against ridge rising between troughs :
pushing pink sand between akli's thighs, covering drooping sexual
cluster throbbing through sand — soaking sand with cold sweat —,
drawing back, digging at sand around, underneath heels, covering
raw feet, scorched to very bone on incandescent pebbles embedded
in sand trampled ; crouching beside akli's head, fingers darting into
crinkled hair, pinching, lifting lice — stuck to nail in blood — onto
tongue ; swallowing ; scratching plaques of scabies spreading over
onto forehead ; whining, mouth open rasping, puffing hot breath
over livid face, pressing belly, at point of accelerated heart-beat,
onto ovoid occiput ; zephyr fanning out scent from thorn-tree planted
before dune coiled swollen over steppe, perfume radiating stellated
towards troop of black goats encircling tree ; jissom discharged, boy
thrown off balance, legs collapsing — muscles, nerves, relaxing.
Pushing filaments back towards pubis ; kneeling, bones grinding, on
sand ; knees smooth, sanded, boy hugging woman, settling sweaty
haunches onto heels ; woman's buttocks pressed against his upper
thighs strained, urine secreting from bladder, stirring in duct of
cockled penis ; woman's head rolling in jerks, face forward, against
boy's back, hair hanging down brushing over his coccyx ; insides of
Woman's thighs rubbing at his hips ; boy raising haunches, lurching
forward, pushing woman's croup back onto sand — member,
Withdrawn from cunt as far as glans, scintillating, crumpled, pores

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itching under curls —, swinging over, lips rolled back, saliva frothing
over gums, on top of woman lying back ; cunt tugging at glans,
mouth fastening cross-ways onto smooth lips of woman, her heels,
joined, vibrating over heels perspiring, of boy ; boy amassing saliva
in cheeks, pouring, spitting into mouth surging with taste of
prelusive seed, of juices, driven up by contractions from clitoris, from
belly, into gullet ; boy rolling nostrils swollen with snot over woman's
teeth, plunging nostrils, cheek-bones, ears, chin, into mouth.
pressing all against snotty muzzle ; member sliding back into
crackling cunt, pubis, again hardened, grinding, releasing, grinding
bruised pelvis ; with surface of upper torso, spreading slimy swollen
breasts apart, jamming nipples under armpits, into curls — sweat
streaming along hairs stiffened by stale sweat ; woman moaning,
modulated, sharp ; weak yelping corroding boy's ear-drum : nerves
irritated throughout body, again plunging ears, eyes, nostrils, into
frothing muzzle ; orgasm, flesh rubbed slapping wet, freeing.
through pores enlarged in slow shudder, aroma of body hot from
wandering under sun ; jissom, seed, dripping under clitoris ; grease
running back, settling in bottle cooled by zephyr ; boy's snot aspired
into woman's nostrils, blown back by expiration into nostrils of boy.
heating : ball of snot tickling nostril walls, boy, pulling one hand from
under woman's croup, sliding thumb into nostril, pulling out ball.
lifting hand, raising sticky finger, opening level with woman's muzzle.
palpitating, scrutinizing : finger drying in zephyr, denuded hip,
cheek, of swooning akli, level with crane ; whereupon, boy squashing
thumb against top of rump : with enlarging of pores in final shudder
of ejaculation, ball of snot sliding, dried, into slit of arse ; boy's
buttocks, shaken by shudder, glimmering, coppery, level with fire.
curls of drooping sexual cluster mixing with blades of grass :
vertebrae, ribs, rippling along boy's croup, exchanging perspiration
; hair unravelled, oscillating over occiput, frayed, tight curls rolling in
spirals along smooth strands ; turban, crushed, heaped, sticky, one
flap caught between hips pressed together, piled on turf, against
boy's flank ; bluish haik rolled between spreading breasts of woman.

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sticking gluey ; boy nibbling, lifting haik, head raised, spitting cloth
back over woman's muzzle ; tongue flicking, teeth pulling,
straightening creases, smoothing haik over muzzle, kissing — head
lightened — bridled mouth ; edge of finger-nail forcing closed
eyelids, cleaning out corner of sandy eye ; mouth lowered licking iris.
iris reviving ; contact contracting lips of cunt ; penis, bitten, blushing
purple ; boy’s breath heating iris ; fire reddening sweat in grimy folds
under arse ; member forcing contracted cunt ; woman's arms,
crossed over nape, squeezing neck ; legs vibrating, diagonal, sweaty,
thighs squeezing loins under backs of hams ; cunt frothing, snapping
up pubic curls, pulling, lips rolled back adhering to bottom of pubis,
to throat articulating balls onto duct of shaft ; boy, mouth fastened
to eyebrows, moaning, laughter bursting, lifting middle of body,
pulling penis out of cunt, raising top of body, fists pressed onto
sand, filaments of spittle, of snot, stretching from mouth down to
muzzle veiled in film of seed. of jissom, stretching from glans to
cunt, boy bending loins — woman's legs, relaxed, sliding to one
side, other side of boy's legs lifted ; foot kicking into gluey cunt.
other foot stiffened on ground away from sprawled body, boy
standing, nails scratching breasts, torso lifted touching chin, belly
hollowed, rump raised, member dripping, crumpled over side of
hairy thigh ; pressing foot under vagina of woman slumping drowsy
; thumb curved in towards slit of arse ; palm drumming on buried
surface of thigh ; pulling foot out from under penis, stepping over
woman's thigh, spinning around, farting into zephyr, springing forth,
leaping, sand sticking to sweaty heels ; hair twisted, rushing, penis
hardened by sprint, towards rocky outcrop, kneeling, applying belly,
penis : veins, veinlets sizzling on scorching flint ; boy applying torso,
cheeks, forehead, ear, rubbing pubis onto flint ; ear detecting
vibrations of flock, of wind rising over steppe ; member stretching,
proliferating in lump of soft sandstone, glans touching traces of
pollen ; lips drooling, foam crackling, drying on eroded flint ; fold of
flesh burning navel, boy lifting belly ; toes digging into sand ; tall
Qrasses, stalks reviving greenish, shaken by zephyr, shading croup ;

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green sap rising in stalks ; member, recharged, retracting in
sandstone ; nomad thrusting pelvis, elbows held against body,
standing upright, eyes dropped scrutinizing front of body reddened
in patches : pollen crowning glans ; walking, straight, direct, spying
toughened member bouncing against sides of thighs, drawing all
circulation of hunger towards pubis, from occiput down to toe ;
kneeling before feet of woman, taking, lifting feet to mouth, kissing
nails packed with bloody sand, spreading feet, moving forward on
knees, between open legs, lifting legs under kneecaps, up against
hips ; member hardened, boy swinging down over sweating breasts,
woman's legs crossing over his dried haunches, over backs of knees,
he stiffening whole body over woman ; member curving back against
closed cunt ; boy, with hand slipped under belly, fondling woman's
clitoris, smoothing penis between two fingers ; withdrawing hand.
bringing hand back onto woman's lips, sliding balmy fingers under
nostrils : cunt half opening, spitting, opening : glans pushing pollen
inside ; under fingers of boy, lips, cheeks, of woman blooming.
thighs thrown back ; penis sliding, melting into cunt ; boy panting

in torso, heart forcing lung ; prismatic eyes filling with tears ; legs
vibrating, pubis held back ; between two fingers, pressing throat :
drawing face aside, disgorging phlegm — in mouth, saliva
circulating, tinted with blood ; dry lips squeezing closed ; woman
pressing palms against raised torso ; respiration slowing, woman
kissing eyes ; back of knees pressing seat ; spurt opening boy's fists
over sand ; flake of flint, from rock, pricking sheen of emptying balls
; boy, bucking pelvis, pulling penis from cunt, hitching up body on
fists ; ejaculating glans splashing woman's belly, breasts : with
crumpled hand, slow, woman spreading out jissom, pink beneath fire.
over cooling cuticle ; boy taking hand, turning wrist over, rubbing
jissomy fingers onto torso, belly, sliding filament into cavity of navel
; resting hand on breasts draped with low curls of hair, sweaty ; rising
onto knees, standing up, straddling woman — her lustrous legs
dropping back onto sweat-soaked sand ; fist pressing throat.
Moaning, belching pink saliva ; head jerking, — forehead, nose

140 : Pierre Guyotat
pushing tears towards eyes, clots of jissom expelled from glans with
shaking sobs —, burning, throttled, in fire ; zephyr skimming,
shaking. rolling, exhausting head ; woman laughing, chortling. lifting
hand to muzzle ; jissom, seed, frothing, thrown out onto edge of cunt
by heaving laughter ; boy taking head in both hands, butting forward,
boxing head with fists, spitting into palms, smearing head, slicking
down stiff curls, frayed curls between spit-soaked fingers,
buttressing body over sand, sinking spit-soaked head into sand,
throwing softened member onto sand, with thrust of loins ; leaping
up onto feet, grabbing penis, stretching, whipping stretched shaft of
penis with hot sand mixed with immaculate cockles flung from other
fist : same fist stuffing sand into arse, both fists filled with sand
pressed over breasts, opening fists, moulding sweaty sand over
nipples ; torso raised, sand running under paims. over mound of
belly, pulling tongue out of mouth, heating tongue in rays of fire,
leaning back ; fire flowing over hollow of croup ; loins arched. hips
askew, shoulders dropped, boy letting sweat drip onto ilium, psoas
stirring ; tears touching, at edge of cheek, drops of sweat drawn
down line of grime from ear — sweat formed, exuded under
temporal curls ; woman, laughter extinguished squeezing breasts
filled with fresh milk under tepid zephyr, raising knees, fondling
clitoris with heel, thigh falling back : sandy horn of heel sliding over
Qluey cunt ; breasts swelling ; boy, sniffing zephyr, crouching.
walking, shuffling, stopping in smell of milk wafted ; woman holding
out arms — heavy sweating hands grasped by fists of boy with torso
sighing : woman, muzzle throbbing beneath haik, pulling at fists,
chest of boy swinging down, rings forming under pink skin of
member, towards breasts swelling bluish with milk ; placing fists on
breasts, nipples seething with milk ; boy, raising one arm, flattened
fingers holding back hair falling over forehead, rubbing washed
nipple with rim of lips ; woman squeezing head ; hair mixing together
in centripetal flurry ; knees of boy digging into sand ; under belly.
member proliferating : woman, stretching out arms, touching glans
with thumb ; boy's muzzle spreading open ; woman pinching sliding

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glans between two fingers, pulling ; member, bruised, electrifying
grains ; mica scintillating stuck to rippling veinlets ; woman's fingers
touching folds around boy's creased belly, under floating ribs ; boy
lifting one knee, spreading thigh ; woman's fingers rubbing at fold of
groin ; sweat from boy's torso running over arm ; fingers grabbing
spangled penis ; thigh spread sideways, sweating ; shaken — sweaty
foot digging into sand —, strengthening, filling with jissom ; on
slope of thigh ridged by pectineus, member, dropped by fingers of
woman suffocating — muzzles pressed together —, shedding folds
: glans twisting, separating from duct, bursting over hairy thigh :
zephyr clearing foam frothing at contours of clamped muzzles ; boy
pulling back head ; rearing up, crouched ; hair curling sweaty over
forehead, eyes, lips, chin ; arms held away from torso, boy pinching
hair under armpits between fingers, scraping at traces — stiffening
hairs — of sweat, grime, sandy musk ; glossing hairs with tips of
fingers moistened, lifting nails packed with grime to teeth, nibbling
at deposits, swallowing ; flinging fingers onto itching loins,
scratching blisters, poxy pimples, drawing blood, lifting bloody nails
to teeth, shaking loins, penis — droplet pearling on glans splashing
central swelling of lower lip, of woman ; lip seamed ochre, rolling
back into mouth ; drop of jissom dissolving in saliva ; boy, quick.
chest slung forward, pressing hand over woman's mouth, pushing
other fingers between teeth, passing fingers over retracted tongue.
reaching to back of palate, scraping saliva mixing sticky with droplet.
pulling out fingers rubbing fingers on grimy throat ; grime flowing
powdery over pubescent torso ; spit-soaked thumb scraping dirt
from poxy cuticle under lower jaw, forcing ganglions under tonsils.
tolling grime from behind ear, from downy nape ; standing straight.
boy shaking, hopping, jumping, seizing pubic fleece flecked with
crab-lice, lifting one leg, feverish, falling back onto haunches flecked
with pus, with blood, drawing leg back over opposite thigh, jamming
horny foot under sexual cluster ; knee, strained, glimmering, blood
violaceous ; heel lifting sexual cluster : hand holding penis down over
thigh ; on heel, balls spreading, pores scintillating ; chipped thumb-

142 Pierre Guyotat
nail scratching balls, along veinlets, lifting bitter sweat to lips ; boy,
swinging forward in jerks, sinking head into sand mixed with laterite,
screwing skull into spongy mass, hair sweeping over chalky cockles
; slit of arse throwing sharp shadow onto curved coccyx, shadow
skimming over sweaty back ; platysma forcing scintillating cuticle ;
thighs tense, abdomen hardening, boy diving forward onto acheb ;
boy sliding sandy head under creeping ivy, cutting roots with teeth,
crawling — back, croup, loins flattened — under cool, bristling,
bitter, grasses, stopping ; muscles of abdomen, bones of
epigastrium forcing, grinding rancid sand underneath ; top layer of
sand removed, musty stench, raised dust disintegrating zephyr, fire,
around body palpitating immaculate under ivy cut back ; woman,
rolled back onto belly, crawling out of patch of white sand, hitching
up body, cunt susurrating, on top of bridled haunches — touching
fleshy fold, with mound of cunt ; slipping wrist through interlaced ivy,
pressing palm over boy's mouth ; fold of flesh trembling, cunt
frothing ; woman covering body wrapped in expiring grass ; boy
coughing, stench from rattled grass asphyxiating lungs ; pulling with
shoulder, uprooting acheb, overturning woman ; torso squashed
against sand, sliding body out of ivy, crawling towards patch of white
sand ; woman grabbing his feet, crawling behind, abdomen
annulated, breasts moving over brittle hay ; in white sand, coiled, on
sides, face to face : boy caressing breasts, woman wiping, with
moistened fingers, syphilitic spots burst over vertebral throat ; glans
touching, retracting, against closed cunt ; knees, crowned with
beaten blood, vibrating ; baby, dozing, hissing, purring, buried in
warm coat of camel's neck ; grasses crackling ; flock of goats
assailing tahla, sidling against trunk, browsing on thorns, berries,
flowers spattered with shit by drunken gangas — driven from tree,
disgorging, swooping down over grass, iris veiled ; monkey crossing
feverish black hands over akli’s forehead, raising eyes, scrutinizing
Prismatic stratosphere ; tail curling around akli's poxy throat ; eyes
Scintillating between flecked lashes ; singed muzzle throbbing ; fire
reddening ruffled coat ; blood flowing from akli’s frozen head,

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susurrating at corner of lips ; monkey wiping blood on fingers.
standing, walking, swinging hairy, over turf gorged with sweat, with
steam expelled from swooning body, stopping on white sand, sitting
beside dishevelled heads, slipping bloody hand between faces held
apart, sealed together by gazing eyes ; nostrils quivering ; boy
detaching eyes from woman's gaze, raising head, scrutinizing
ambient life, rising, thrusting pelvis, bounding, crouched over turf.
beside akli, lifting fractured arm, caressing cold cuticle, wrapping
blackened stump under palm : mass of muscles, nerves, bones.
flesh, immobilised in coagulated blood, weighing arm down into hand
; resting arm on torso, pinching flaccid cuticle of neck, cheeks, hips.
epigastrium ; throwing head back, moaning, holding out arm, hand
swinging, towards crouching woman ; breath making blood froth at
corner of lips ; boy throwing hand onto pulse detected in centre of
neck by monkey's finger ; finger of monkey's other hand touching
pulse in vein at root of penis, boy grasping penis, finger ; woman
advancing on knees, towards turf ; boy stepping aside, dropping
penis ; woman stretching out arm, crouching, seizing arm of akli.
lifting stiffened elbow to mouth, sniffing, licking transparent cuticle :
standing, running towards female camel, fists striking neck bringing
animal onto knees on torn acheb rummaging in saddle-pack, pulling
out painted leather bag, returning to swooning body, kneeling.
pulling decoction of grass, of powdered teboureg, from bag.
smearing elbow, forearm, wrist, back of hand, shoulder, armpit.
Massaging greased arm ; monkey holding softened penis ; eyes
sealed to eyes of nomad, monkey squeezing shaft, with slight
pressure of palm, of fingers ; woman rising, closing bag, throwing
bag beside kneeling camel, hugging — lowered onto knees —
smooth croup of boy crouching, rubbing open cunt over vertebrae.
arm squeezing boy’s neck ; boy, standing, member hardened, lifting
her legs, underneath kneecaps, along his flanks, moving forward.
straddling body of akli, rushing forth ; wide-open cunt wetting
middle of back ; trotting towards thorn-tree ; lips, tongue, teeth of
woman sucking, licking, nibbling at nape ; boy entering flock «

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woman's buttocks brushing over sweaty coat of he-goat : foam again
surging in cunt ; boy dropping down, on knees, in front of tree,
laying woman onto trampled sand, arms embracing shit-smeared
trunk ; shaken, branches browsed by goats flicking foam of flock
onto shoulders, forehead ; frantic he-goat pressing tufted haunches
against woman's breasts, woman hugging thighs of goat : boy,
seated, knees joined, back to trunk, scrutinizing, through hair fallen
over front of face, foaming cunt trampled by hoof of he-goat ;
shoulders drooping, eyes widened veiled by slow beating of lashes,
of lids, hands joined over kneecaps, penis proliferating at foot of
wealed trunk shaking, breath accelerated, modulated, by
obscuration, by contraction of lungs ; new-born kids butting flanks,
boy grabbing scruffs, tucking kids into lap between lifted legs,
against belly ; soft hoofs touching curly pubis, erect penis ; laughter
expelling drops of bloody saliva from mouth, at corner of lips,
running in two threads over chin ; he-goat, haunches hugged,
trampling on sand ; shit-caked tuft of tail gagging woman's mouth ;
boy, standing — kids falling at his feet —, stroking belly sticky with
meconium ; tufts of young pink hair mixing with pubic fleece ;
stretching arms, entwining ringlets, above head, around untouched
branch, bending branch down, covered with flowers, with fruit, into
tangled hair, over forehead, crossing legs — heel of one leg, beaten
bruised, held up off sand —, balls caught under seat, in angle of
buttocks, bulging pink through curls below arse, penis pulling at
pubis, grimy sweat from open armpits running over sides of thorax :
kid flicking tongue onto salty sheen of balls : boy, laughing raucous,
contracting elbow against breast ; kneeling, blooming branch held
clenched with heaviest lock of hair, lowering torso towards brushed
face of woman ; he-goat freeing haunches ; boy pressing rustling
torso against closed mouth : undulation of vertebrae, of ribs, half-
opening lips, mouth gulping at cartilage spurring centre of torso ;
penis, drawn out over sand, quivering ; branch snapping, tied into
boy’s hair ; branch pulling at lock of hair, boy lowering face, kissing
mouth of woman, one hand pressed against patch of saliva on torso,

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other thrown over trace of semen on middle of back ; woman
grabbing branch in both hands, pulling towards forehead ; boy
drawing back, shaking head ; woman dropping branch ; boy rolling
woman onto belly, sprawling on side ; crawling between goats,
grabbing swollen dugs ; goats, bucking, farting ; woman wiping,
laughing muffled, mouth of boy laughing loud ; nostrils aspiring,
puffing back musty smell of tahla ; stopping under belly of heaviest
she-goat, rolling onto backs, pressing, milking dug between their
fingers interlaced ; boy pointing dug towards mouth ; milk spurting
blue over nostrils, over eyes, pressing teat between lips, closing
eyes, suckling ; icy milk, bitter, with strong perfume of tahla, filling
mouth, rushing into gullet, into belly : separating at pubis.
streaming, diluting in flesh of legs ; boy, spitting, ejecting pubescent
teat engorging mouth, stuffing spit-soaked dug against woman's
mouth, fingers of woman drawing milk ; woman pushing dug aside,
with rim of pinched lips ; boy hanging onto loins of goat, squeezing
; goat falling onto flank ; boy grabbing, pulling dug towards woman's
breast, sprawling on belly, gulping, between spattered lips, dug.
nipple ; woman, one hand still milking dug, other pressing root of
own breast ; boy suckling : two spurts splashing pharynx ; woman's
free hand stroking boy's back, shoulders, ridge of shoulder-blade :
boy's chipped teeth nibbling nipple ; she-goat sprawling, nipple
bitten, kicking against muzzle ; hoof vibrating, jerking, against
mouth ; boy, standing up, milk flowing over throat, over breasts.
pressing right side of body ; fire surging in bronchi, fading, burning
under pleura, inflaming lobule, inundating fissure, touching
diaphragm ; boy, spitting bright red blood mixed with mucus.
kneeling, purring husky towards woman ; woman wiping breast
covered with sticky goat-hairs, propping elbows on sand, shifting
body towards knees of boy, flinging arms around his neck, dragging
him down towards her face ; boy, blood, spittle, mucus bubbling in
neck, stretched out on back beside woman ; woman pressing ear
against torso ; her ear — white of boy's eye turning to violet level
with fire, under lustrous lids — dragging, small, downy, cool, over

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sweaty torso, detecting, level with upper lobe of right lung, squeaks,
accelerated murmur of vesicles, wheezy rattle ; boy placing both
hands onto woman's head, rolling ringlets. greasy bands of woman's
heavy hair, around wrists drained of blood : penis, nerves aroused by
cough, by lying stretched out on back, hardening arched ; woman
grabbing, smoothing dried serrated member against palm, between
fingers ; cough lifting torso under lips ; urine forcing root of erect
member ; hoofs striking flanks, climbing over shaken body ; dugs
dragging over heated belly ; hair, horn, epidermis, eye. milk. blood,
sweat, urine, circulating from breath to breath ; shadows of flock
covering immaculate body — woman, mouth filled with blood aspired
against lips of boy, pulling back long olivaceous arms : down bristling
on akli’s pock-marked neck, in wind ; monkey stretching out over
dozing baby, lifting baby enlaced, whining, standing up, springing
forth ; baby, head rolling over monkey's shoulder, crying, thumb slid
into nostril ; monkey, leaping, tufted tail sweeping over sand, over
grass, turning away from encampment, running, rag shaken over
arse, towards tree, leaping, clambering — above foreheads marked
red, ochre — into branches struck by teeth, clasping feet, one hand
around highest branch, other arm hugging baby, streaming with
tears, against torso ; disturbed, meshed thorns scintillating ; monkey
lowering open mouth, purple tongue plucking russet berry through
mesh, sucking berry rolled back towards pharynx, shitting — rag
lifted over arse, tufted tail rolled around wrist — onto lower
branches threaded with foam ; shit splashing foreheads of goats ;
monkey holding baby around loins, pulling buttock aside with edge
of palm, thrusting gluey member forward, impaling baby, heaving :
below, on sand strewn with dung, boy, fit of coughing suspended,
crawling on knees, penis erect, between woman's legs, swinging
down onto her breasts, kissing, pulling breasts up against throat :
hand sliding along hips of woman, covering pubis, palpating fat of
thigh ; woman's legs crossing over boy's loins, arms grinding into his
neck, penis, serrations smoothed, grafting into cunt, discharging
Spurt of fluid jissom ; cunt chewing at tissues of duct, of glans :

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balls, dried, spreading over sand soaked with oily wet semen ; boy,
torso torn by cough, withdrawing member, standing up, stepping,
diagonal, over woman's bust, rushing, leaning forehead against tree.
flanks heated pressed by goats, expectorating clots of phlegm
charged with sugar, with blood ; goats licking clots spattered over
boy's feet, licking tears streaming, down along folds of cheeks, of
contracted chin, under jaws, over throat, breasts, belly, pubic fleece
; woman, knee pushing back he-goat, sitting face to face, haunches
of goat on thighs of woman, member unsheathed gluey — semen
pumped by body from member jerking, splashing woman's belly —.
crawling, back pressed against sand, towards tree ; air bathed in
blood, milk, sweat, putting monkey to sleep, member half-withdrawn
from between buttocks of baby dozing ; female kid, gold-specked
eyes covered with thorns, with pollen, gathering nomad’s crumpled
penis on tongue ; boy, shaken by coughing-fit, stroking eyes warmed
by fire filtered through stratosphere ; cough expelling quick series of
burning clots from throat, into mouth ; boy collecting clots inside
lower lip thrust forward, buttressing body, pressing forehead against
bark ; kid rearing up, flicking tongue between boy's lips, swallowing
mass of clots ; ear, neck, flank, throbbing tufted with hairs, dry, violet
on surface, cool, greasy, black beneath, against sweaty trunk heated
in patches, of boy ; boy closing lips swallowing saliva mixed with
milky froth from tongue of kid ; woman sprawling, grabbing boy's
legs, under farts released with coughing ; croup against sand.
crawling, fists squeezing boy's hams, pressing nape against bottom
of trunk ; boy, throat irritated by air displaced around creeping body.
coughing, spitting spurt of garnet-red blood into mouth gaping
fleshy underneath, tongue, gums wriggling pink, chin, lips touched
by shadow of penis, of angle of thighs ; woman swallowing spurt of
blood cooled on contact with air, raising arm towards boy's hairy
pubis, seizing crumpled glans between fingers, tugging ; second
blood-spurt splashing hair-line over forehead ; fingers spreading
blood into roots, down bands of hair, over lashes ; hand grabbing
member, pressing : drop of jissom pearling at glans, rolling over

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edge of wrist ; boy kneeling, straddling woman's loins, hooking
fingers into swollen breasts ; woman pulling, directing, squashing
glans onto half-open vagina ; breath — engorged glow of rosy fire
bathing mouths, filtered through transparent membranes of torn
lungs — of youth, bathing sweaty face ; woman piercing his pock-
marked neck with tips of bloody nails ; boy crying out, modulating
cry trilled in blood, woman's fingers detecting, on neck, accelerated
vibration of vocal cords ; boy's dishevelled head sinking over
woman's face ; member swelling in hand ; mouths open joined
chewing clots, passed from one to other ; lashes beating, brushing,
catching together ; eyes — of woman, obstructed by blood, by
crusts of sleep, eyes of boy, washed while bathing, spangled by
cough — scrutinizing other through lashes, iris dilated ; hands of
youth gathering, under hanging locks — hair heating phalanges —
, woman's languid head, lifted from sand ; his lips, chipped teeth
scraping behind rolled flesh, smoothing, scraping dirt from hairs of
nostrils, of eyebrows ; tongue licking sweat from downy hairs
between nostrils, closed mouth, of woman, bringing salty sweat back
towards rear of palate ; woman pinching, squeezing boy's nipples
between fingers ; torso — blood bursting — of boy, swelling : tears
filling eyes, veiling violaceous globe, spilling over eyelid ; torso
proliferating, clouded by coughing, touching breasts crawling with
sand-beetles, circulating in traces of fresh milk, emerged from sand
under woman's encrusted arse ; boy's tears streaming over closed
eyes of woman, shaken, by laughter, at contact of beetles on breasts
; kid, clots chewed, pushing horns into buttocks of youth ; youth
laughing through cough, hot breath driving beetles off breasts.
fingers squeezing bunched ringlets, bands of hair, wet with sweat, in
burning sand — shadow of tahla covering bodies from buttocks
down to nape, fire sinking in distance beyond, beating onto bodies,
compressing flesh, bone, hairs ; kid flicking tongue onto sweaty edge
of arse, youth standing, stepping over body — trunk coppery, sweat
mixing with pollen under flowery shadow, legs, head whitened, dried
in fire —, panting, hugging tree, rubbing pubis. fold of groin, one

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side of re-hardened penis — fist covering glans —, against bark ;
biting bark packed with sand ; woman, standing, turning, reeling
around tree, crossing hands over nape of youth, rubbing closed cunt
against shit-spattered bark ; knees joined, necks extended, mouths
kissing ; glans, released, touching spur of woman's hip ; torsos, filled
with blood, jissom, tears, grinding trunk down to sapwood ; he-goat
nibbling youth's tense ham, burying horns into fat of buttocks,
pushing, scrutinizing rutilant nipple bulging over bark, cunt — loins
shifted — rimmed with oily wet seed moistening bark around
constellation of russet roaches ; heaving, lips rolled back over frayed
bark, throats, breasts soaked with spit, right hands entwined, left
hands contracted over napes in sweat, in downy hair, blood-stench
lingering on breath exchanged, rolling eyes flooded, towards turf
reviving green, vacant, muscles relaxed, towards cool of shade ;
zephyr shaking drinn : one knee of akli, lifted, vibrating ; monkey's
eyes opening, mouth kissing baby's nape; flock stirring ; he-goat
digging, with hoof, into sand under raised foot of youth ; feet
collapsing, torso scraping trunk ; he-goat butting trunk, jumping
behind body of woman, digging into sand beneath her feet, rearing
up, springing, gripping woman around croup, setting splayed horns
against back, pressing member — legs stiffened — against bottom
of right buttock, shifting loins : member — neck twisted, horns
grazing right side of back — unsheathed, slime oozing through
flecked hairs, proliferating over top of woman's relaxed leg, towards
cunt opened rolled back against bark, bathing bark with oily wet seed
; boy throwing hand around trunk, burying hand into pubis pressed
against trunk , grasping, grinding sticky cunt, sinking thumb between
bridled lips, withdrawing thumb capped on nail with yellow clots.
lifting hand to mouth, licking thumb slipped behind teeth, tongue
cleaning out nail, fleshy creases, trace of oily wet seed ; female kid
lifting, rolling penis over horns, diving, legs folded back, against
trunk ; furry arse, quick, touching penis of youth pressed back
against bark by woman's hand ; monkey, arms squeezing baby
against torso, shitting stream of burning excrements, concentrated

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in sleep, mixed with fine-ground wart-hog bones ; thrusting pelvis,
shit splashing youth's hair swinging high, monkey springing out of
tree, bounding onto sand, crying, stumbling, belly on sand, baby
squeezed under sweaty armpit, standing, long bistre hairs of occiput
bristling, shaken over head ; trotting, lop-sided, ambling between
grasses, up to revived body of akli ; kneeling alongside, placing baby
in imprint of male camel's flank ; camel, tuft of hump shaking against
zephyr, trotting over drinn, mouth belching spittle, wheeze of love,
eyes scrutinizing immaculate rump of female looming, packs
removed, standing immobile amongst heaps of bundles, sacks, bags,
poles, canvas, skins, painted saddles ; muzzle skimming over drinn,
member, heavy, muscles loosened at root, beating against inside of
thighs ; nostrils sniffing at dusty acheb ; hoofs, digging softened into
spongy sand ; hamstring of female twitching, blood surging in male's
lung, member pointing stiff ; female, buttocks bathed by breath of
male, sinking down, sprawling, flank flattened, onto unfolded canvas.
convulsive leg rubbing against sand ; male sniffing at furry arse.
pressing soft hoof in jerks against muddy hoof of female ; monkey,
lying face down on slimy body of akli, supple black limbs enlacing
boy, flat front of small crumpled mouth kissing lips ; member caught
in rag stuck to navel by mixture of dung, mud ; nostrils aspiring
musty stench of jissom high on wrinkled forehead, in russet ringlets
; beneath film of grease, of grass-juice, akli's arm, hand, reddening
; blood, clots cleared, again circulating in fold of elbow. surging into
armpit, shaking shoulder, bursting, heating, in middle of back ;
nostrils again palpitating, lips curling up, pushing back spittle
dripping from mouth of monkey — eyes wandering, sclerotic veiling
iris ; hands opening over sand ; blood buzzing in wrists ; loins, belly
shot through with blood, lifting middle of monkey's body ; nomad,
mouth filled with milk suckled from teat of heaviest goat, trotting,
kneeling beside akli, lowering heavy mouth, cheeks pulled down ;
hand drawing head of dozing monkey aside, sweat soaked up by
coat, half-opening akli’s lips, pouring, spitting icy draught of sour
milk into dried mouth — tongue curled towards back of palate,

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membranes stuck to sides ; akli swallowing milk mixed with spittle,
with blood ; eyes opening : nomad’s penis proliferating in jerks over
sandy side of thigh hardened by bending of knee scored with
scabies, rolling over fat of ham tucked back under thigh ; akli
breathing, stretching all limbs — wafts of jissom, of camel-dung,
goat-turd, blood, grease, released, fouling zephyr ; nomad, chest
inclined forward, glans touching sand between hams, one hand
grasping bottom of right rib-cage, other hand cupped lifting head —
curls, sweat of temples sticking to palm — of akli, pressing
protruding ribs over lips shaken by fresh spurts of blood ; akli
hooking twitching hands around nomad’s loins ; croup of latter
undulating, threads of sweat streaming over loins ; pushing hands
back — grease, grime, reliquefied by heating of blood, flowing in
folds of skin ; nomad pulling bottom of right rib-cage from between
akli's lips, standing erect, foot trampling — laughing bright — on
flank of his akli, monkey nibbling heel of boy's right foot, licking
broken blisters on ankle ; springing forth, fire radiating over raised
torso, eyes sparkling, kneecaps gleaming red, striking — full face
— body of woman standing still, breasts drooping incarnadine, legs
spread stiffened, feet pressed under burning sand, cunt half-open
seething yellow against fold at top of thigh ; boy squeezing woman's
body between arms with marrow surging in bones, pushing belly.
contracting tendons of buttocks, modulated belch spitting foam out
of cheeks, closing eyelashes over flattened lashes of woman, curling
legs around tarsus, tibia, of her legs half-buried ; entwined, shaking.
loins of one held in other's fingers ; leaning forward, cheeks rubbed
together, epidermis bathed by zephyr embalmed in tahla, laughter
spitting over high grasses, trotting, haunches shaken, sweat dripping
over bottom of buttocks : two horned vipers, coiled in tangled clump
of almouz, horns paired, iris vertical, scrutinizing thighs trembling
sweaty in trampled sand ; boy, torso wilting, croup twisted, catching
— in mid-air — filament of slaver running from between woman's
lips, onto tongue rimmed mauve ; foot striking horn of viper ; boy.
pushing woman out of clump of almouz with thrust of pelvis.

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rushing, legs hardened, between dried grasses, racemes battering
kneecaps ; vipers, sliding over broken stalks, hissing, spitting venom
over smooth heels of youth ; woman, crouching behind thicket
clustered around sandy core, hands wiping loins, lips, breasts ;
youth, pale buttocks shaken red, leaping, nape hardened, out of
clump ; vipers, halted at edge of bare sand, vibrating : venom
streaming over heels of youth standing, quivering, behind woman,
member heated proliferating arched over side of thigh cooling under
sweat ; rubbing eyes, digging poisoned heels into sand, cough
triggered by cooling of sweat, spitting bloody clot onto white sand,
in front of thicket : vipers, sniffing air streaked by jet of phlegm.
stirring, slithering towards clot glowing red ; boy rubbing heels into
sand ; woman leaning back against boy's legs, sliding head between
knees, palpating hams, stroking — through sweaty cuticle —
popliteal artery heating back of knee ; vipers sliding over intact
sand, dipping heads into clot ; horns stuck together, each lapping up.
aspiring part of clot : boy's knees shuddering between woman's
fingers, eyelids hooding eyes ; vipers, clot lapped up. blood
scintillating over scales around mouth, raising tops of bodies,
vibrating ; boy, woman's fingers pinching popliteus, spitting : clot
sticking to pubescent chin, taken in fingers, thrown onto sand, cough
fuming in torso ; vipers darting forth, horns catching clot. slithering,
clot stretched between both pairs of horns, towards clump of almouz
— sand falling back with mica ; boy — balls kissed, licked by
woman's mouth, tongue — scrutinizing dusty clump : vipers crawling
bloody, scales pressing digestion of mucus, of blood ; woman taking
scrotum in mouth, chewing balls with hairs from under arse ; boy.
laughter shaking twisted hair, placing palms on hair of woman. sliding
fingers, interlaced with bands of hair, with ringlets, down to scalp :
nails scratching itchy patches, penis stirring at twitches of head
buried beneath boy's haunches ; vipers, clot juggled from horn to
horn, tails entwining, coiling, mottled lustrous, under cover of stalks,
dropping burst clot onto sand, lapping, blood hardening between
scales ; gorged, flattening heads onto sand, iris inverted, mouths

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open, threads of phlegm drying over horns ; boy drawing back, balls,
pulled out of woman's mouth wet with saliva, dragging over greasy
hair ; boy, eyes fixed on eyes of vipers, stepping away from thicket ;
woman, kneeling, rump pressed down over heels, licking sweat from
fingers, scraped from behind boy's knees ; milk cooling in breasts,
woman covering teats with hands, bust flung forward, nausea veiling
eyes, bile surging against loosened teeth ; boy stretching arms —
farts rubbing over sandy buttocks, — lifting hair tangled with curls
over temples, finger-nail scraping at grimy cerumen in outer ear,
inclining chest, pointing cleaned ear into draught of breeze : zephyr
carrying cries of gazelles, halted, sand-covered bodies sensing
approaching storm, beside patch of turf revived green by
movements of lightened air ; woman, standing up, shaking hair :
vipers rasping ; woman swelling belly, arching loins, sliding thumb
into vulva, pushing seminal scum back between lips with flat of nail :
vipers burying flaming eyes into dusty sand ; woman tossing scum
beside clump ; eyes horns of buried vipers poking out of putrid
sand, rings on bodies opening scales in cooler depth ; woman closing
vulva between two fingers : scum scintillating on sand shaded by
tangled stalks ; vipers’ tongues flicking, spangled with mica, rings on
bodies lifting disturbed sand ; woman again opening vulva ; tongues
vibrating ; two sand-beetles coupling, crawling up onto side of clump
: eyes, horns, digging back down ; beetles stumbling, dropping onto
scum ; male viper darting forth, snapping up one beetle, pulling at
pair, drawing back into clump, sinking back down into sand ; female
viper biting other end of pair ; beetles buzzing, legs catching on
horns ; vipers, mouths swinging aside, pulling beetles apart, each
tolling one beetle tucked under throat, over sand, licking point of
copulation, nibbling, grinding, spitting out mutilated body, slicing
antennae, legs, notching neck ; beetle, nerves of thorax shaken.
writhing on soiled sand, before nostrils of viper ; viper, iris blazing.
tubbing throat on sand, mouth poised, lifting beetle on top of snout.
held in hollow of skull, between horns ; woman, fist holding vulva
pen, leaping onto boy, embracing him with her free arm, squashing

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her breasts against his chest : boy turning head aside ; vipers
digging deep into clump ; boy letting pink saliva froth between lips ;
woman fondling swelling penis, balls ; boy pulling back loins,
detaching arm from waist, springing forth, running towards camel
lying on side, sprawling purring into embalmed fur of belly, knees
folded up against chest, thumb slipped between lips, other hand
covering, supporting fat of buttock ; boy's farts, smell of milk, of
blood, bathing heated face of his akli ; woman wandering over turf ;
baby, emerged from hollowed imprint, crawling, knees, fists pressed
into sand, crying, alongside camel's croup ; woman, crouching,
drawing baby towards knees, lifting, hugging baby against breasts,
rolling backwards onto sand : baby, toes burrowing into pubic fleece,
striking, licking, sucking, nibbling breasts, pitching into belly,
drooling over nipples, shitting over pubis in bluish stream ; knees
slapping in shit against flank ; woman, arms raised, wrists twisting,
breasts shaken by laughter, spitting pink foam from between teeth,
lapped by baby shitting, fingers curling back lips ; akli, nomad's
rump reddening under zephyr in shadow of camel's belly, pressing
able arm onto sand, lifting body, standing upright with thrust of
pelvis, crouching beside heap of bundles, sacks, unwrapped poles,
untying brown blanket, spreading out blanket, covering shivering
buttocks ; nomad, eyes flooding half-opened, fixing akli’s lips
Striated vertical, setting tremulous foot, outside blanket. penis
pressed back touching edge of navel, against foot of akli, furrowed
between toes by acarids ; akli, kneeling, rags sliding over loins.
exposing buttocks, with forehead pressed against tarsus, toes, ankle
of poisoned foot, standing, spitting, forcing fist into mouth, expelling
phlegm, opening mouth wide, heated by remaining venom, returning
to heap of objects, lowering forehead into cool exhaled by guerba
swollen with red water ; monkey gathering charred sticks over
steppe, flinging handful at feet of akli, sitting on trampled sand ; akli
picking up, arranging sticks into bundle in footprint of camel ; woman
standing, wiping encrusted pubis with fistful of dry almouz torn from
vipers’ thicket, dragging baby standing upright, hanging onto her

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wrist, over sand, to shelter between patches of acheb ; lying down on
cooled sand of shelter, bones spurring bruised flesh, slaver
streaking cheek, hand pushing slippery baby back outside embalmed
shadow of leather, farting, knees tied, hands covering vulva bathed
by fart ; nomad, thumb sucked in mouth, cheeks swollen by stifled
cough, stretching legs out of blanket, curling up, hands hooked onto
shoulders, downy hair bristling over nape in zephyr, legs folded
under buttocks, throat thrown back whipped by light gusts of sand,
of mica, blanket covering thighs ; breeze swelling clothes, blue,
violet, heaped on roof ; boy pulling match out of pouch hanging from
neck, rising, blanket dropping down onto sand, crouching beside akli,
biting — mucus frothing at nostrils — his ear, transparent pink,
grimy, cooled by zephyr, teeth tugging at lobe, releasing, spitting
over side of cheek, biting, quick, whole mouth, under nostrils strung
with hardened snot ; hand, two fingers pinching matchstick, groping
over edge of heap of objects, at wood, rough leather, stiffened
canvas ; akli, suffocating, interlacing fingers over coccyx ; nomad
removing fingers with free hand, pulling one hand back in front of
body, smearing sweaty torso, with flesh, skin, horny cuticle ; akli's
crumbling fingers, reddened by fist squeezing, skimming, touching,
pressing bunch of sweaty hairs in middle of torso heated by
uncontrolled cough ; nomad, turning wrist of akli over, coughing clot
into hollow of hand, closing fingers over clot, flinging hand away :
akli, keeping fist clenched, drawing back, crouching, pointed tip of
turd hanging from arse, stuck to hairs ; nomad grabbing ham.
drawing tottering youth close, kissing mouth marked with teeth-
marks, bitten crumpled ; striking match on leather patch, lighting
bundle of sticks, rummaging in embossed bag, pulling out small
blue-enamel tea-pot, US meat-tin, two tiny glasses adorned with
Czechoslovakian transfers, brown paper packet filled with green tea
: arranging everything around fire ; akli, licking deformed mouth.
tearing up stalks of almouz from vipers’ thicket, beside monkey :
nomad, neck of guerba untied, pouring red water into US tin, placing
tin onto fire, finger-tips pushing sticks into flames ; blaze dazzling

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eyes, nomad throwing necklace back over nape, ear-rings tinkling,
sweat crackling over torso ; monkey, in darkened clump, embracing
akli's leg, burying head under rags girding loins, rubbing skull into
stringy hairs of pubis, against root of thick mottled member ; akli,
slaver foaming at corner of lips, spreading thighs, lowering buttocks
over hams, rolling backwards onto sand, legs open, fingers lifting,
peeling off rags stuck under fold of groin, stiffening legs, stretching
arms ; reddish tuft, opened in stretching of arm, scintillating under
armpit ; monkey, crouching between akli’s legs, taking member, balls,
in hollow of hairy palm ; akli’s belly, pubis, shuddering ; drop of
urine pearling on glans ; monkey's finger-nails scratching itches on
penis, on balls : pimples, blisters, pruritus bursting over polluted
cuticle ; akli purring, two threads of slaver dripping over cheek, from
corner of lips up to ear ; snot palpitating in nostrils ; monkey, mouth
lowered, driving back snot with hot breath ; fist gripping penis,
pumping ; heaving, monkey burying free fist under akli’s arse,
tearing out point of shit stuck to hairs, bringing fist back against
chest, juggling lump on back of hand ; akli, tears flowing into eyes.
rubbing arse against hand, blood flowing into pores, hairs torn out :
penis proliferating, forcing monkey's fingers ; nomad, crouching.
sweat exuded over cheeks, seizing pole tipped with spear-head,
tossing pole with both hands into thicket ; spear-head sticking into
sand scratched by almouz quivering against akli's ear ; monkey
jumping out of thicket ; head of akli rolling over stalks, standing up
; monkey rolling lump in palm under mouth ; akli, standing, grabbing
bundle of almouz, walking, placing bundle beside fire, licking at
drying clot on hand, going back to thicket, picking up pole, kissing
shaft over finger-prints, tossing pole back onto pile ; nomad pulling
fingers from fire, standing up, arm striking aklis fist ; akli squatting.
again seizing pole, standing ; nomad gripping elbow ; akli lowering
buttocks over hams, bowing nape, slow, placing pole onto leather
sheets ; nomad releasing elbow ; akli butting forehead onto sand ;
nomad stepping aside ; whole of sexual cluster, balls softened, penis
stiffened, hanging in bunch, pulling at pubis ; akli, buttocks streaked

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with hardened grime, flecked with spots of blood, smudged with shit
at sides of arse, gleaming red beneath fire, blood flowing back into
cheeks, lips, nostrils, siobbering over heated leather ; nomad picking
up pole, holding shaft in fist, at end of arm hanging loose, tossing
pole, side of spear-head skimming over buttocks exposed between
verminous rags ; scaly cuticle quivering ; spear-head rolling over
skin, slipping, point first, into slit of arse ; point — nomad’s fist
shaken by raucous laughter — touching membranes around opening
of arse, sliding over layer of fresh shit uncovered under hairs torn
out ; akli kneeling, buttocks closing around point of spear : nomad
pushing his akli standing upright, point turning in arse, away from
heap of objects, towards thicket, striking ground with heel ; vipers
surging, heads coated with clots swinging between grasses ; akli
drawing back, penis pale, spear-head piercing membrane inside arse
; placing hands over pubis ; vipers spitting over grasses ; akli’s toes
digging, sweaty, into putrid sand ; nomad pulling back pole at
junction of iron with wood, backing out of thicket ; vipers, iris
wavering, dropping down drowsy ; nomad moving, crying, jamming
other end of pole between thighs, jumping to one side, trotting
sideways ; akli, dragged, staggering, spinning on heels, nomad
encircling youth, straddling pole, hopping over trampled sand, all
around akli thrown off balance, spear-head thrashing in arse, hands
caught in rags of torso ; monkey springing forth, scrambling onto
nomad's shoulder, wobbling, nibbling lump of shit between fingers ;
woman, standing upright under shelter, hand spread over forehead,
laughing loud, shaking baby on elbow ; baby, blue iris palpitating
between ochre eyelids, laughing sharp, biting her fists ; akli crying
out, woman drawing hand over closed vulva, tip of nail rolling back
lips with oily wet seed ; pubis, indigo cuticle stroked pink by zephyr,
hardening ; akli again crying out, oily wet seed susurrating over
vulva, under pubic fleece ; nomad, taking pole from between knees,
lifting pole at arm's length, forcing kneeling akli down onto sand,
pushing youth back, on belly, half-flattened against rocky outcrop :
woman, trotting, baby squeezed against throat, towards fire, monkey

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jumping down from nomad's shoulder, taking woman's free hand :
dragged by woman towards fire, lump held between teeth ; woman
crouching, placing baby away from vibrations of fire, blowing over
embers ; water boiling in shaking tin ; nomad, hands pressed around
middle of pole, pushing akli's inert body away from outcrop of rock
: blood pearling over spear-head between curls ; nomad pulling
youth back onto rock, spearing body — muffled laughter shaking
torso — onto centre of outcrop, pulling back point scintillating
soiled with blood, with shit, flinging pole onto canvas sheets ;
crouching, lowering face beside pale drooping face of his akli,
against slab of flint, blowing hot breath against horny ear ; akli
shivering, nomad, tremulous, pushing mouth over lips, rubbing
smooth thin nostrils against thick scaly nostrils of akli ; flat side of
jaw rolling head, shoulder, torso, hip of youth ; rolled over onto back,
akli — blood seething in arse, buttocks heated by flint — half-
opening lips ; nomad, kneeling, croup twisted, setting thick penis,
softened, against frothing teeth ; fingers of one hand of akli
touching penis ; woman, turning back, spitting onto fire ; monkey
climbing down ; in three jumps, rushing onto nomad’s croup, nibbling
at sinews of nape ; woman again spitting onto fire ; nomad pulling
back penis from over chipped teeth, standing up, wiping lips, chin,
nostrils with back of wrist, walking towards fire with monkey wobbling
on shoulder, squatting beside woman ; her feverish fingers, pink over
embers, diffusing blood into cinders ; woman, wrinkles fixed on
forehead, hand drawn out of embers covering half-open vulva,
crammed with oily wet seed ; boy scrutinizing, over breasts, dirty
pubic fleece erupting pink, detaching woman's hand, lifting hand to
lips, sniffing odour, pressing hand onto woman's cheek, kissing
phalanges ; woman's free hand grabbing spit-soaked penis
proliferating parallel with thighs joined to hams ; boy's tongue
spilling between lips, eyes narrowing, point of tongue touching nails
of hand, of woman ; tear rolling over lower lash of latter ; boy, penis
pulled by sooty fingers, drinking sugary tear — grains of sugar held
back in eye, left by child's mucky lips —, hand grabbing, pulling at

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woman's hair ; akli, kneeling, wiping arse with rag, standing, stuffing
tag tinted with pink blood into reed woven around waist, hand
supporting fractured elbow flushed violet with blood, walking
towards fire ; aside from fire, at limit of waves fading out from
flames, stopping, sitting, scrutinizing penis held under red buttocks
by woman's blue hand ; woman pouring boiling water into tea-pot
filled with tea, pepper, cloves, sugar, placing pot onto embers, boy's
mouth rubbing tepid over her nostrils ; monkey, hooking hands over
boy's shoulder, sliding down, covering smooth croup with whole front
of tensile furry body ; woman dropping penis, enlacing monkey,
croup ; boy inclining chest, setting chest back onto knees of woman,
opening mouth over kneecaps, nibbling ; monkey licking breasts,
suckling ; woman, neck quivering, spreading thighs ; with hand,
spreading breasts ; pissing underneath body, into sand, feet
slapping in sand gorged with urine ; boy's throat purring, monkey's
member oozing hot over flank ; shadow of woman — heavy hair
bowing head —, flanked by monkey, by boy, covering all, zephyr
dissolved in wind, in fire ; akli veiling mouth, nostrils, with rag
knotted over ear ; fire, prismatic incandescence over rising horizon,
touching, inflaming stratosphere ; in smell of urine wafting, in heat
of embers, boy falling asleep, head settled — saliva frothing at lips
— on knees of woman, his ear picked clean by nail of latter, her
throat rosy, pushing monkey's mouth away from breast, pouring tea,
drinking, monkey resting mouth on heated throat ; akli’s mouth
throbbing beneath rag ; woman lifting tea-pot, pouring three drops
onto sand ; akli stirring, kneeling, shifting in front of fire, untying
fag, crossing hands together over flame ; woman pouring splash of
tea into junction of palms ; burning into fissured crust ; muscles of
akli's cheeks quivering ; lips lapping prismatic liquid, tongue curled
against back of palate ; steamed nostrils exuding grime of snot.
jissom ; torso, grazed on flint, throbbing ; muzzle raised, eyes
tefracting blue under lashes, again stretching out palms ; woman's
long free hand — blood flushing incarnadine in sweating fold of
elbow fondling penis retracted in sleep, boy’s masseter muscles.

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twitching in dreams, vibrating against knee — pouring second splash
of scalding tea ; akli bathing muzzle in tea, woman squeezing
nomad’s penis, smoothing shaft between fingers ; akli crouched
drawing back towards imprints on sand, of buttocks, of rags girding
loins ; nomad half-opening eyes ; woman pouring trickle of tepid tea
between his teeth ringed with black blood ; akli, rag tied back over
mouth, lips rimmed with pepper, holding both hands open against
torso heated by tea descending ; flock wandering over steppe : he-
goat stumbling into gallery hollowed under caravan-route — sand
over track embalming wart-hog ; kids springing, hoofs hitting flint,
coats electrifying crystals, mica ; he-goat hitching up front legs out
of shifting hole ; eyes sparkling, rushing at kid, biting coat at flank,
rolling kid onto sand, pushing kid back with hoof, with horn, towards
thicket ; vipers scintillating ; he-goat, coat bristling, pushing
bloodless kid into tangle ; vipers spitting : venom splashing eyes of
kid ; vipers pulling back to centre of thicket, knotted stalks weighed
down by dung ; kid, rearing up, rushing from thicket, staggering,
kneeling, butting forehead — marked red — onto sand, eyes
bloodshot ; he-goat, eyes flicked by tufted tail, lurching, reddened
member spangled with electrified sand ; kid, forehead digging into
sand, bucking rump towards conflagration of stratosphere ; fire
bleeding over arse ; he-goat, body contracted glowing red, springing
forth, buggering kid, struggling ; coats shaken, throwing off sweat.
sand, grains, pollen, mica ; woman, tea-pot emptied, pushing boy
away, standing, picking up baby, returning to shelter ; swaddling
baby in robe pulled tepid from roof, tucking him into slit-trench lined
with almouz, with drinn, on one side planting pole in front, carved
with animals, winged, web-footed, heavy haunches, beaks disgorging
egg, ovaries, fruit, over swollen breasts : baby, through bluish cloth
bridling eyes, scrutinizing wreath crowning pole, daubed gaudy ;
woman, resting against belly of female camel, pulling pink muslin
dokhala from leather bag, clenching, crumpling cloth against breasts
; boy standing, tea, blood, bubbling in throat, bones spurring belly,
walking, fists pressed over pubis, towards shelter ; akli burying feet

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into sand, pushing sand back around flattened legs, covering knees,
kneecaps shifting, skin creased, covering thighs, sexual cluster, top
of body thrown backwards over sand, covering his pubis, his belly,
his breasts, mouth closed, torso panting, shoulder massed over arm
; his throat, boy enlacing woman's cool croup, muzzle flicking at
muslin ; his ears, boy whining raucous, hugged by woman's downy
arms ; his mouth, woman pulling piece of cheese from one of bags
hanging from boy's neck, stuffing cheese between boy's lips, milk
shaking in breasts ; his nostrils, boy sniffing, licking hair rubbed with
sand, soot, butter ; his closed eyes, woman grasping boy's penis,
cheese susurrating in mouth ; his forehead, woman tracing signs in
sweat on boy's nape : circles, crosses, brackets, crossed squares,
dots, dashes, triangles ; woman crumpling dokhala around boy's
loins, over buttocks, dropping muslin down along his legs ; boy's
buttocks twitching, undulating, holding up crumpled cloth rubbing
cool over coccyx ; penis hardening, bruised muscles tense,
proliferating arched towards pubic fleece of woman ; hands of boy
squeezing woman's shoulders ; shoulder rolling under boy's palm,
woman sliding wrist under sexual cluster, curving hand back under
boy’s contracted buttocks, seizing flap of muslin between two
fingers, pulling whole of dokhala — cooling, smeared with jissom
beneath boy's balls — from between his legs ; pulling dokhala,
gathered in fist, up over her belly, rubbing cloth against her breasts,
her nipples, thighs pressed together ; drawing away from boy, taking
his wrists, pulling, placing dokhala on arms outstretched, raising her
arms ; boy, holding dokhala in folds of elbows, darting mouth under
woman's open armpit, smoothing sweaty fleece between lips.
burying mouth — lips rolled back — into muscular cavity ; muslin
sliding out of his arms, bunched, bending stiffened penis down boy's
hand — nostrils aspiring sweat, curls — touching rippling muscles
of armpit, squeezing penis, through muslin, settling glans into seam
; boy purring, drawing up whole of contracted body ; crumpled
muslin sliding over penis, irritating dilated epidermis ; boy jumping
backwards, grasping dokhala, holding cloth against woman's body.

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rolling, lifting, dropping garment over woman's arms, head, pressing
his head between her breasts ; dokhala, shaken by undulating body,
flowing over boy's croup, as far as coccyx ; woman's arms enlacing
croup hugged in pink cloth — creased mauve over hips level with fire
; woman shaking loins, advancing, hands crossed over centre of
boy's back, lower seam bridling fat of buttocks, coccyx, boy's hair
falling in twisted locks out of neckline of dokhala, across chest :
knees striking boy's knees bent, woman treading on sand trampled,
hollowed, by boy's feet stepping backwards ; monkey jumping onto
woman's shoulder ; all collapsing onto sheets of leather ; woman's
fist pushing boy's head back towards her belly ; cloth tearing at
neckline ; boy's hands hooked around woman's loins, fingers sliding
in sweat ; woman farting ; smell, driven back between thighs by
zephyr, bathing mouth, nostrils, eyes, sweaty ears, of boy ; boy
crouching, croup straightened, sliding top of body out of embalmed
dokhala, falling back onto sand, feet joined to woman's feet covered
by bottom of dokhala, thighs opened, pubis stretched under black
fleece by turgescent penis, torso throbbing, pink mouth curling back
; monkey, seated behind head, on sand, smoothing twisted locks
between fingers ; boy, threads of bloody snot streaming along
nostrils, towards eyes — neck lifted, throwing back face —,
moaning, fingers scratching sand ; monkey's finger-nails jabbing at
forehead — blood running in wrinkles ; woman smoothing billowing
muslin over whole body ; nipples moistening cloth ; muslin, shaken,
embalming boy ; pressed against body, sticking to pubis ; woman
burying muzzle in neckline : under nostrils open picked clean, scent
of jissom, of boy's smoky sweat, wafting from muslin ; cunt half-
opening in curls, swelling cloth ; eyes dazzled, scrutinizing boy's
penis stuck with hairs, resting on side of thigh ; crouching, woman
picking up fistful of immaculate sand, dousing penis : sand running
over thigh ; penis bouncing back, blood surging violet, blue ;
circumcised flesh flushing purple ; thighs, raised, touching, bending
penis ; he-goat struggling ; trampling, dragging, pushing back
blinded kid, fastened at his member, underneath, hanging ; sand

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palpitating, grey, over akli's scabious body ; smell of scabies exhaled
from sand, touching boy's nostrils ; boy shaking head ; monkey
dropping locks of hair, jumping aside, sitting, weaving one hair
between fingers ; boy crawling backwards on back, nostrils dilated,
towards point of pungent exhalation ; head striking foot of akli, akli’s
thumb emerging from sand ; boy rolling onto belly, penis forcing
sharp sand ; rolling onto back, member, nicked, proliferating with
gusts of zephyr, pulling balls against sides of thighs ; elbows lifted
from torso, boy pushing with feet, with fists, hitching whole body
between sandy legs of akli, lowering buttocks over mouth — opened
with compression of torso ; heels, through sand, pressing at
shepherd's loins ; buttocks filling mouth, forcing teeth ; akli, pulling
hands out from under sand, pushing, lifting buttocks away from his
lips, towards his cheek, his ear ; tongue protruding, licking fat of
buttocks, traces of bloody shit on sides of arse ; muffled laughter.
raucous, shaking top of boy’s body ; heels striking akli’s belly swept
clean of sand ; muscles of abdomen, strained, compressing lung :
akli choking modulated, torso trembling, boy's balls rolling, dry, over
pock-marked throat ; muscles, cheek-bones, supporting boy's
buttocks ; tongue moistening hairs around opening of arse.
disentangling, tugging at shitty crusts ; boy rolling in sand ;
circumcised flesh spangled with mica, standing, finger-tips touching
wet traces from shepherd's tongue on sides of arse, striking buttock
with flattened palm, rushing towards woman — reaching up pulling
djellaba from roof, sniffing djellaba —, stopping, quick, sand kicked
up over legs and up to member, nape twisted pressing mouth under
open armpit, taking both wrists resting on roof, stretching wrists over
heated skin, burying erect penis into bunched muslin amassed
between woman's buttocks, lifting hands from roof, covering, under
raised arms, both breasts hanging out of cloth, twisting, fondling
purplish breasts ; djellaba sliding from roof, seam sticking to sand.
swollen with violet air ; woman detaching boy's fingers from breasts.
crouching, picking up, heaping djellaba over boy's occiput ; djellaba
tumbling down over body, spurred in front by penis, woman pulling

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green plastic bucket from beneath pile of poles, of bundles, placing
bucket under camel's belly, exposing teat between encrusted tufts,
squeezing, milk spurting bitter, smoky ; boy, penis erect moistening
middle — fold of dried jissom, over crotch, oozed from glans while
walking — of djellaba, advancing, crouching low, towards woman,
setting thigh, ham, against those of woman uncovered crouching,
rolling croup, pivoting, over that of woman pressed tight in muslin
riddled with holes burnt by sparks, vertebrae turning with traction of
arms on teat, pressing cheek, head twisted, against woman's ear,
placing hand onto smooth knee, fondling quivering kneecap, side of
thigh. up to downy hairs, pubic fleece, bristling under bunched
muslin moistened with oily wet seed ; falling back onto sand, hip
weighing onto woman's purplish foot, taking her wrists splashed with
milk — teat proliferating between fingers —, bump of occiput
shaking, digging into sand, under teat — splashes of milk glazing
mica —, squeezing fingers interlaced over teat ; opening pink mouth
: jet of milk, icy, blue, drilling against teeth ; akli, loins, clavicles.
occiput burrowing into sand, again burying body : pair of sand-
beetles climbing up cheek, wandering over exposed rim of
submerged lips ; penis — legs, antennae brushing over nostrils —
lifting sand, glowing red, turgescent, level with hot sand, tugging at
buried balls ; nomad purring under teat ; milk, held back in creases
of smile, smattering cheeks ; bucket, full, heating skull ; woman
removing hand from teat, sliding fingers — crumpled, gummy —
between boy's legs, beneath cloth, gripping penis, swinging forward,
lowering muzzle over boy's knee, sliding whole of head under robe.
biting penis grasped ; boy's croup quivering ; sweat oozing on glans
; muscles of penis forcing woman's fingers ; boy gulping at teat.
suckling ; woman's mouth, dilated, biting penis, fist ; snot, laughter
shaking throat, bursting from boy's nostrils, onto teat blocked
between teeth ; flatulence frothing at rim of arse ; woman, muzzle
aroused, disgorging penis, fist, sniffing under sexual cluster, licking
excremental foam simmering at core of stiffened tuft on seam linking
underside of arse to root of balls ; croup lifted, tearing bottom hem

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of boy's djellaba ; boy's thighs, gripped by woman, sweating,
softening, tensing under fingers ; nausea contracting left cheek, right
cheek holding full draught of milk ; spat out of mouth onto sand, in
short pink spurts ; woman sniffing at pubic curls, boy closing thighs
onto muzzle ; woman pulling back head, croup, from inside djellaba,
straightening up, kneeling on sheets of leather, taking ear-rings,
necklaces, rings, bangles, bracelets, pendants, from embossed
leather bag jammed into Shell oil-drum cut off at level of spout :
upright, jewels clenched in fists, fists crossed over coccyx, pubis.
breasts thrust forward, woman rubbing against front of body —
heated by colic — of boy standing up, pressing her broadened
mouth over his contracted lips ; boy, shit seething at arse, taking.
lifting, crossing fists, jewels tinkling protruding between phalanges.
over woman's quivering pubis ; penis, through djellaba, touching
triangles, pendants, lozenges, circles, rectangles, of silver, of ivory :
fists half-opening, sweaty folds uncovering chain of tiny hexagons,
pearls, sticks of make-up ; boy, on his palms, raising up opened fists
to lips, kissing, sniffing, licking at the motifs, the right nipple slipped
out over muslin, the motifs, the pubescent cleft between woman's
breasts, the motifs, the downy throat, the fresh metal, the chin ringed
with flatulent foam, the stick of make-up, the lips — downy hairs
above curled flesh catching in sticky fissures ; boy's teeth nibbling,
tugging at flesh of woman's gums ; closing, her eyes, under boy's
lips, jewels clicking around clenched fists ; boy crouching, woman
kneeling, fist crammed with jewels separating hair pressed down over
sweaty face, seizing, with arched little finger of other packed fist.
small purse of bluish leather, boy, eyes lowered, lustrous lashes
vibrating over erectile epidermis at top of cheeks, caressing the
breasts pulled out of muslin, the musky curls, the pelt — seething
with lice — over epigastrium, between breasts, his finger-nails
pinching lice in tangled hairs — sweaty on surface, dry underneath
; breasts swelling ; boy lifting nails, crammed with lice, to lips.
nibbling, head — eyes closed — shaken, gullet tickled by passage
of bristling grains ; woman pulling red plastic jar from purse, peeling

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back cellophane, dipping index into decoction of oil, kohl, cloves,
sand, antimony, sliding smeared finger between two fingers of boy's
hand placed on her breast, lifting this hand up to his eyes, weaving
other fingers into hand, trailing finger, hand, interlaced, over boy's
lashes, tracing circles, crosses, rectangles on forehead, burying
finger — retracted under fresh film of spicy make-up — into hair,
smoothing strands from roots to tips ; boy's fingers, feverish, sweaty,
touching smeared hair, scratching occiput flushed red with scabies ;
boy, keeping hand buried, plunging other hand inside neckline of his
djellaba, pulling out — from pocket opening at embroidered hem —
small dagger ; unsheathing dagger, licking, pressing blade against
roots of woman's hair ; boy's eyes opening shot with violet blood,
blade dividing locks over forehead, temples, occiput ; each one taken
between fingers of woman, armpit opened freeing odours of shit, of
milk, of tasa salsolas — woman braiding locks against blade ; akli,
forehead loaded with grey sand, shifting, breathing, nausea swelling
cheek, cold sweat streaming under woolly rag, in fold of groin ; boy,
sliding free hand forward, pulling pebble from under sheets of
leather, tossing pebble onto akli's sandy belly ; hiccup modulated,
akli pulling knees out of sand ; pebble slithering ; body rolling, pale,
sweating, abscesses bluish beneath fire, rims of burst buboes
scintillating in violet foam, level with fire ; circumcised flesh of glans,
frenulum creased, flushing purple at tip of arched member, pubic
curls stuck by jissom to middle of shaft, hardened blood of nomad
pulling at pores, member swelling with vivid perfumes of zephyr ;
nomad brandishing farded dagger in fist, spitting : akli jamming
muzzle into sand ; rump raised gleaming russet-red, rags peeling off
scaly cuticle ; nomad again spitting, head thrown forward, over hair
— all one side exuding pearly sweat ; spit splashing buttocks ; akli,
penis straining held against belly in sandy fist, burying — hollowing
sand cooled under declining fire, with bubonic ring on forehead —
his head, network of pus, sweat, blood circulating, flowing from
infected cavity — blow from fist of soldier rapist — on occiput ;
dagger separating fingers on untouched side ; fingers of one of

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woman's fists — jewels sliding onto sand — brushing over blade,
braiding hairs frizzed between finger-nails over embalmed edge of
blade ; boy kissing lips shifting in muscular accompaniment to
braiding, fingers tapping over woman's croup, crouched rump ; point
of blade catching crust of scabies on occiput ; woman's teeth, eyes
clouding with tears, biting boy's wrist ; point digging under crust,
peeling off scab ; tears spurting, hot, over bristling wrist ; tremulous
fingers braiding handle of dagger barring woman's forehead ; saliva,
snot, blown out with sob, bathing gums buried under fat of wrist ;
boy, penis drooping, pulling back blade, nibbling soiled point ; eyes
closed, eyelid covering irritated iris, fist fondling woman's nape,
under heavy buttered hair ; fingers following interlacing tresses,
smile throbbing with undulating of final braiding ; woman's hand,
nails farded lustrous, covering, grabbing, fondling penis through
cloth, pinching, pricking glans with tip of nails ; boy purring,
moaning, whining, yelping, jumping back ; woman's fingers
squeezing member ; dagger pressed into fist against chest, boy
shoving knee against woman's throat, pressing heel over closed cunt
; under fissured heel, cunt opening, frothing ; woman sliding hand
under nape, lifting tresses spread over sand ; boy pressing, curving
toe-nails back against swollen vulva ; lips susurrating under toes :
jissom flowing into glans, tickling duct ; horizon swinging, sun
hovering — tropical curves radiating —, tipping, erectile mass, into
western shadow ; akli’s raised rump, head curved back over cooled
sand, gleaming pink in grey air ; boy's foot quivering over cunt :
member retracting into curls ; all sweat, all blood, all juices, all shit
imbibed by bodies of animals, humans, cooled in darkening wind.
setting over epidermis, skin, flesh ; scraps of skin, of parasitic
fleece, amassing against akli's nape ; vipers, in warm cavity of
laterite covered by rustling almouz, copulating, striking jaws, horns,
entwining, chewing chips of laterite, spitting back over red eyes.
hissing, disgorging pellets enrobed in venom, scrutinizing akli's
violaceous forehead ; boy, squatting, sand sticking to foot moistened
with seed, picking up jewels buried in sand, between woman's thighs.

168 Pierre Guyotat
swinging forward, propping elbows on sand, placing bangles over
breasts, hooking heavy necklace around neck, fixing pendant
lozenges, coral ear-rings onto ear-lobes, squeezing diadem set with
bluish coins around forehead, hooking three silver rings covered with
ivory into nostrils, onto central cartilage of nose, drawing —
woman's eyes closing under boy's palm — cross, circle on smooth
forehead with tip of farded tress — two fingers of woman taking tip
of tress, wiping forehead with flat of nail, tracing three vertical dots,
two groups of straight bars —, shifting bangles over breasts,
drawing back towards bare legs, adjusting horn clip on fleshy fold of
lower lip of cunt ; lip revulsed, covering clip in froth of oily wet foam
; boy's fingers pinching, pulling lips towards inside of thigh : seed
spitting, heating back of thumb ; bitter scent bathing nostrils ; clip
surfacing in foam ; pink flesh engulfing clip ; boy inclining torso,
snapping up clip half-swallowed by cunt ; aspiring, chewing seed in
cheek, mixed with clot disgorged in fit of coughing ; top of woman's
body tinkling, lifted from sand, contracted, breasts hardened ; pubis,
again swollen, touching forehead ; woman groping, smoothing back
twisted locks of boy spread over her belly, slipping finer tuft into her
navel, rubbing locks hanging over temples, encrusted, slimy — dried
in sun, in wind — against her loins ; front of dress bunched beneath
breasts, back caught under buttocks, sweating ; finger-nails pinching,
smoothing extended locks from pores to points ; yelping of boy
making mucus froth over cunt ; woman's thighs, hem of dress
bridling lateral fat, squeezing together, knees touching, against
boy's temples ; monkey, woken by tinkling of metal, trotting towards
akli, sprawling on back in sand, under raised body — head buried in
sand, buttocks lifted —, fingers smoothing penis, swollen with
jissom, articulated heavy to hairy pubis, monkey hanging onto loins
of akli, slimy member stiffened touching belly, nibbling, licking throat
rippled with muscles raised by burying of head ; monkey flattening
belly against akli’s chest, lifting, flattening — panting ; member
filling bubonic navel with slime ; mouth kissing chin — foam frothing
expelled from cheeks by throat thrown back — through sand, lips

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opened ; nails scratching itchy neck, shoulders : akli slumping onto
black body, monkey's arms — nails scratching ear-lobes — enlacing
his head, monkey's legs, his buttocks ; akli's torso crushing top of
monkey's body, abdomen hardening digging between monkey's
thighs ; woman shuddering, boy raising top of his body, tubbing
woman's pubis, bunched cloth, nipples, throat, chin, with edge of his
lips sticky with seed, pinching her nostrils, rubbing, pressing lips
over mouth, hands gathering her head, under nape, over occiput ;
dropping torso over breasts, butting smooth forehead into clicking
jewels, onto woman's wrinkled forehead ; fingertips pulling at ear-
rings fixed to lobes, rings adjusted in nostrils, kissing raised skin
swollen with blood, sliding nose under diadem of coins, wrist under
necklace, licking roots — clogged with settled sebum — of locks
over forehead, temples ; member reddening, glans touching —
tremulous, heated — cunt opening wide at licking of locks, bathing
in palpitating deposits of seed, proliferating ; shaft, again shaken,
pushing glans into cunt ; spittle frothing all around lips joined :
cheeks swelling, expelling spittle seasoned by slight belches of
sugar, milk, burnt food, cheeks hollowing, smitten with grey sweat ;
in their perspiring bosom, darkness alternating with bursts of light ;
blood carrying off, bringing to jissom, all exasperated languors of
feet, hands, belly, knees, forehead ; ilia spurring woman's loins, boy
heaving, sweat sticking intact cloth to coccyx — arse virgin, only
pressed, cleaned, by tongue of akli, after shitting, sleeping, sucking,
on collapsed tent, against unpacked loads ; lips smarting, buried
under lips of woman, in oily bubbling of saliva ; fingers interlacing
under nape of languid woman, cerumen flowing over auricle, tear
dried in wind, in breath of displaced mouth — foam sparkling over
edge of lips —, trailing trace of salt, from edge of orbit to frizzy
down of temple ; boy’s mouth opening, ringed, crammed with
nacreous spittle palpitating with accelerated wheezing ; woman's
tongue touching, aspiring veil of spittle from rosy surface ; boy
closing eyes ; his hands, woman's nape resting on dewy sand,
stroking cheeks animated by movement of aspiration ; fingers.

170 Pierre Guyotat
forehead covered with feverish red patches, twisting tresses ; woman
blowing at filament, thighs spreading, back of sweaty knees rubbing
folds below boy's buttocks, through cloth ; penis floundering ; cunt
biting penis ; boy, loins arched, pushing jaws against core of
woman's head ; toes, contracted, piercing — orgasm shifting
muscles — sand scratched in movement of erection ; boy's face
retracting ; woman's tongue, breath, pushing back deposit of spittle
inside boy's mouth ; boy's mouth spreading over woman's muzzle :
yawning, blood surging in larynx, exhaling draught of warm breath ;
cunt quivering, squeezing retracted penis, glans bathing, triturated.
in fresh mixture of seeds, touching seat of childbirth ; boy's eyes
softening, lids drooping, lashes twisted together ; belly pregnant with
exalted flesh, boy, buttocks spurring mantle, heaving afresh ; fingers,
hams of woman pressing nape, fat of buttocks ; head, reddened,
oscillating, jewels clicking, under wide-open mouth, blood spurting
from gums ; woman, fat at top of cheeks touching lower lashes,
purring, wailing, whining, spit frothing at corner of stretched lips ;
bubonic pores of akli's buttocks, exuding — violet-hued under
whipping wind — sweat dirty with smell of wool, of jissom ;
monkey's mouth sticking to cheek ; akli distending mouth towards
rim of monkey's heavy lip ; right fist — left propped on sand lifting
up one side of body — rummaging in sand beside monkey's head.
pushing sand back on filtered cone between two fingers, stroking
cool surface ; mica slithering over grains ; akli expelling immaculate
gobbet between lips hardened in wind ; spit crowning nipple of sand
; akli lowering mouth onto fragile deposit, frayed in wind ; nomad,
orgasm suspended — nausea of coughing swelling cheek —.
rubbing joint of elbow over woman's right breast, tongue spattered
with blood, with bile, gathering drop of milk pearling at teat ; woman
twisting bust, croup ; all of front of boy's djellaba marked with sweat,
milk, blood : woman pressing lips over creases impregnated black.
over heaving clavicles under sweaty skin, heated by coughing ;
fingers palpating ribs, vertebrae, sternum hugged in moist cloth ;
baby, awakened — wind cooling swaddling-robe, contracting

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sculptured pole —, crying, lifting arms out of cold cavity, shitting ;
moon appearing, facing jets of incandescent gas ; bluish rays from
moon, rosy rays of occulted fire, touching waving drinn ; akli
slumping down over monkey ; orgasm consummated, boy — woman
stirring underneath at baby’s cries — rising, withdrawing retracted
penis — gust of wind biting triturated member smeared with jissom
—, squeezing shaft, pushing rest of jissom up over Clitoris,
straightening loins, kneeling woman's fingers grasping, squashing
glans into pubic fleece, thighs pressed together ; boy rising, toes
swollen with blood gouging into cold sand, dagger beating against
torso under cloth, coughing, spitting : in grey air, seam of blood
around mouth appearing black, against moon, to ardent eyes of
woman — in her pubic fleece, deposit of jissom drying —, languid,
forehead bluish, top of hair rosy, caressing breasts, surface of
pubescent pelt bristling over middle of chest ; bundle of almouz-
stalks vibrating in crevice of rock ; woman spreading thighs, rubbing
side of right thigh against jissomy fleece, pressing bottom of breasts
with bunched robe ; boy, jissom again touching duct, throat
tightened, flakes of hardened jissom on creases over middle of robe
catching at glans stirring afresh, hands flattened onto hips, lifting
right foot along left ham, vacillating, foot rubbing knee smeared with
fresh jissom fallen in filaments, droplets, from sexual cluster ;
stretching out arms : muscles — under skin, flesh, seized by cold
wind — cracking ; pruritus breaking out under hairs of armpits ;
finger-nails, arm lowered, scratching ; woman rising, walking,
dokhala bunched beneath breasts, croup undulating mantled,
towards pole, squatting beside cavity, nestling face between baby’s
arms ; boy, crouching behind woman, caressing croup, from nape to
arse, pressing right cheek against buttocks ; under rays of moon, all
drinn expiring perfumes ; sand, icy, hardening on surface ; woman
taking baby, pressing, lifting baby over articulation of elbows,
lowering muzzle over gap in swaddling-robe revealing bare skin —
navel ; boy's mouth biting at fat of buttocks ; woman, loins shaken,
boy's fingers palpating her breasts under armpits, burying muzzle

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creased with laughter into heap of unravelled cloth ; farting ; boy
pulling back, wiping his muzzle on back of hand, standing up, turning
around cavity, crouching opposite woman ; mouths pressing together,
laughing, over belly — contracted by rush of tears, by cry — of
baby ; akli, monkey's fingers braiding stringy tufts over pubis, lifting
body, fists pressed into sand — monkey hanging at loins —,
standing upright, wiping forehead wet with cold sweat, walking,
monkey hooked onto belly, purring, over to rock ; squatting behind
rock, flat of palm brushing over sand — surface hardened, broken,
warm depths bathing hand lingering — under buttocks, shitting,
monkey clinging to torso, kissing mouth wet with foam ; in expulsion
of excrements, eyes, dilated, scintillating ; monkey kissing
contracted face with whole of mouth ; again kissing face, jowls
sagging, red turd clinging to arse, coiling in warm cavity ; eyes fading
; monkey licking lids : hot stench of turd stagnating in icy air ; woman
placing baby onto boy's arms ; croup spattered with shit, baby's
fingers hooking into boy's bloody muzzle ; laughter ringing through
tears ; boy pressing baby against chest, catching tiny lips ; shit
penetrating cloth, moistening boy’s arm ; monkey biting at
mouthpiece of flute tied around akli’s knee ; akli's body relaxing —
buttocks retracted skimming top of turd —, blowing into pipe, cheek
pressed against loosening hamstring ; woman bowing head, small ear
— marked with kohl — capturing modulated sound ; monkey
whining into pipe ; head, of woman, oscillating ; boy pressing baby
against top of throat, under chin ; akli straightening up, crouching
back down, rubbing arse, reddened, mangled, against sand bristling
with points of flint, from outcrop ; monkey, with light hand, other
grabbing pipe of flute, pushing sand back over coiled turd ; akli
spinning on heels, enlacing fingers over halo of excremental steam
exuded by turd ; monkey's tepid breath, flowing out of pipe of flute
pointed upwards, skimming over outline of youth's denuded torso,
tolled flesh of heavy lips jutting out over voluted vapour ; woman,
nomad’s leg thrown over cavity, toes floundering, through dokhala,
against clitoris — sweat liquefying deposits of dried seed —,

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laughing, swinging forward, setting boy's foot — hands holding
smooth ham — under her breasts, sliding foot, pressed over sweaty
cloth, between her breasts, turning it — boy rolling sideways belly
against sand, baby pushed away from body —, stuffing it — heel
striking bottom of her jaw — into opening of dokhala ; toe-nails
scratching sweaty breasts ; saliva expelled with tickling, thrown out
of mouth by laughter, splashing heel ; cunt frothing, woman biting
horny skin, fissured, under cloth ; djellaba rolled up over middle of
buttocks, boy, face buried in crust of hardened sand, shuddering,
shoulders shaken, laughing, liquid shit seething at arse, stifling
laughter, puffing, spitting phlegm onto sand, head rolled on temple,
tubbing forehead wrinkled by laughter against sand ; woman's hand
stroking behind trembling knee of trapped leg ; penis twitching, toes
curling back against nipples, thrusting foot weighing onto opening of
robe ; woman, heel blocked between teeth, grabbing ankle at each
side, rolling sideways, hip against sand, pulling foot out of opening,
towards her thighs, pressing foot against cunt, crouching, laying top
of body over leg, rubbing farded face against sweaty seam of
djellaba ; akli — monkey enlacing leg, crying into flute — dragging
body, kneeling, crouching, crawling, standing, heavy hands, torso
lowered, trailing over crust of sand ; fractured arm weighing down,
youth spitting onto smooth incandescent skin ; woman, eyes opened
wide, top of body leaning back against boy's leg, nape pressed
against roll of flesh below buttocks, hair strewn over buttocks shaded
violet in folds, at sides, licking acid snot running over upper lip from
nostrils retracted by cold ; vapour exhaling from tongue dripping with
saliva ; boy's heel digging into her buttocks, ham, croup ; eyelids
beating in gusts of wind ; boy, cheek filled with burning clots heating
crust re-forming on contact with wind, slumping drowsy, heel of other
leg pulled out of djellaba, folded back, pressed against knee of
trapped leg ; akli pushing mehari upright, kissing neck, nostrils,
setting pock-marked foot against pneumatic foot of camel, knee
against turgescent knee-cap, burying face into coat, hand covering
camel's cold flaccid eye : lachrymal liquid susurrating between

174 Pierre Guyotat
phalanges ; lifting sticky palm to lips, aspiring acidic slime ; wind
beating, biting sexual cluster sheathed in damp rag ; beating, biting
woman's sandy cunt, chilling sweat over whole body, shrinking cloth
; Standing, sand running over, under, cloth, bodice — akli sweating,
rubbing penis against top of mehari’s leg — enlacing, feet crushing
crust of sand, boy's hand, opened beneath woman's arse, gathering
— through cloth — farts heating his palm, while pressing — lips
joined displaced — her hardened breasts with flat of chest ; baby
leaning back, crying, against boy's smooth ham ; woman, spittle
exuded with burps running in mouth, sliding hand between boy's
thighs, grasping penis through jissomy cloth ; boy's ham hardening
: baby, cry sharpening, shitting over raised heel : shit heating heel,
foot ; thigh, shaken, throbbing against woman's wrist ; akli, sweat
stopping at pruritus, re-loading mehari ; woman picking up baby ;
propped against boy's elbow, walking — trampling on sand, acheb
trodden down, crumpled, torn back, sprayed with dried jissom,
spittle, blood — towards tree : gangas, gorged with berries, breast
pressed into forked thorns, shitting over branches spreading ;
woman, coated with nacreous spittle, crouching, croup hugged in
cloth clouded with ozone, biting at trunk, squeezing head of baby —
hanging with feet curled back around her neck —, between thighs,
grabbing, pressing quivering ham of boy standing up leaning, with
one hand, against crotch of trunk ; woman crouched, shifting away
from trunk, boy kneeling, kissing trace of saliva caught on knot of
wood at middle of trunk : straggling column of red ants assailing
deposit, hanging from boy's tremulous lips ; woman standing,
thumb-nail flicking at softened thorns, gathering — scraping into
cavities — sugary secretion : rolled between two fingers, stuffed into
baby’s mouth ; scattered, jostled by he-goat, goats rummaging in
acheb, horns entangling ; boy aspiring deposit, hugging trunk,
pressing cheek against bark : pollen, in tree shaken by woman's
thumb, tumbling over boy's face thrown back ; at flicks of tongue
accelerating balmy shower, penis aroused, proliferating over back of
ham ; woman burying balls of sugary resin between her breasts,

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under neck-line stuck to skin by milk — baby chewing agglomerated
resin against woman's ear ; pollen falling into his ears, boy laughing
: ants hooked onto his dilated lips : pricking flesh filled with vermilion
blood ; woman, breasts jammed against trunk, taking lips between
fingers, twisting, wiping, letting hand slide over boy's sweaty clavicle,
crouching, rubbing fingers smeared with pink spittle mixed with
crushed ants over sand, standing, farting, muzzle blooming full,
bouncing baby on arm, springing forth, stumbling over scattered
goats, rubbing croup, dokhala billowing, against flank of he-goat,
narrowing lips under nostrils charged with pollen, grabbing he-goat's
horn, squeezing jerking horn between buttocks, tangled in sweaty
cloth ; he-goat, thrashing, pushing muzzle under buttocks, setting
front hoofs against woman's grimy tarsi, rolling onto flank : woman,
pulled by feet, crouching, pressing cold buttocks — dokhala rolled
up against hot flank of goat, sliding free arm under neck, laughing,
pressing goat's head, baby's torso, under her armpits ; thighs
spreading under bunched cloth : out of open cunt, oily wet seed
dripping onto sand ; inside of thigh trembling, with susurration of
secretion ; thighs closing back over saturated sand : boy, penis
spurring cloth, walking, hands joined over nape, crouching between
woman's legs again spread, smoothing pubescent sheen of
immaculate legs, inclining forehead towards woman's gleaming chin
; burying both hands into sticky fleece, thumb holding lips of cunt
apart, seed spurting hot over backs of thumbs, woman spitting —
breasts thrown against boy's shoulders — thick sugary saliva onto
front roots of boy's twisted hair ; tepid tongue of he-goat licking
right nipple, baby's tongue, emerging from mouth blue from
squeezing of torso, touching left nipple ; boy, djellaba rolled back
over straining member, panting, foam spattered over lips by wind ;
woman shifting buttocks against flank ; boy pulling fists away from
cunt, opening hands, grabbing fat of woman's thighs, rubbing —
leaning forward — spit-smeared locks against top of breasts, biting
at nipples licked by throbbing tongues ; cunt seething, oozing over
joined knee-caps ; woman, with tip of tongue, digging into boy's

176 Pierre Guyotat
grimy occiput between locks of hair, outline of muzzle, shaken by
laughter, sweeping over surface of hair swinging ; glans touching top
of pubis ; curls catching in frenulum ; boy's head, cheeks filled with
blood, rolling over woman's shoulder : fingers, slipped under
dokhala, pressing beneath breasts ; blood sparkling on glans ;
woman thrown back over flaccid flank, setting occiput against sand :
vertebrae of he-goat digging into her back ; boy, rolling up djellaba
to armpits, swinging against front of woman's trunk, slipping both
wrists under croup, slumping torso over bust, hitching head over
curving neck, projecting member against sticky tangle of cunt ;
woman's hams, lifted, crossing stiffened above boy's buttocks ; he-
goat moaning : vermin jumping out of coat into straggly sweating
pelt ; eyes of baby curled up in armpit scrutinizing pink exudation of
sweat from bloodshot cuticle on left side of boy's face panting :
cheek, temple, corner of lips scintillating with accelerated heaving ;
he-goat's tongue licking other side — blood carrying salt ; burst of
laughter from woman interrupting erection ; boy spitting onto
woman's mouth : cunt biting, pressing penis — influx of blood
redressing arch ; with surge of jissom in duct, blood drawing away
from forehead, hands, feet, sweeping, in flux towards penis, over
languid nerves of throat, wrists, buttocks, thighs ; vertebrae of boy's
neck curved upwards touching, tremulous, those of convex neck of
woman : chins touching, vibrating ; boy lifting woman's croup on his
forearms : jissom bursting in glans ; balls sticking gluey to fleshy flap
under cunt : woman's whole body shuddering : boy, mouth opening,
breath hot, with expulsion of jissom, pressing breasts — hardened
by flicking of tongues — against his torso, elbows pushing back
around outer curves of breasts, interlacing fingers under woman's
nape, lifting languid body, filaments of jissom rubbing at suspensory
ligaments of balls, trailing mouth softened by spasms over woman's
dilated muzzle, filaments of spittle crossing under lips, from cheek to
lip, from chin to nostrils ; boy's buttocks cooling under woman's
hams : boy hitching shivering torso — sobs modulated, penis pulling
at cunt — over tepid breasts, hams collapsing onto sand ; akli, pock-

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marked neck rubbed on rough coat of camel's throat, hand swollen
with blood scratching bare buttocks — scraps of flowery silk stuck
by jissom onto side of arse, onto livid cuticle ; boy's right eye
throbbing, jissom expelled ; left eye veiled red, corner of eyelid
exuding pink lachrymal sweat ; woman advancing curved thumb,
gathering thread of salty sweat on nail, lifting thumb to lips ; thread
dried in wind trembling over downy hairs at top of cheek ; nail
detaching thread from corner of eye ; penis jerking, cunt sheathing
shaft up to balls ; woman chewing threads ; right breast swept by
fleece of boy's left armpit, hardening, retracted in wind ; boy's torso
pressing left breast, handling, twisting, flattening : nipple exuding
sweat of acid milk ; boy, sticky pubis plugging viscous pubis of
woman, heaving afresh ; fingers pulling at locks over occiput ; baby
drooling on his left forearm ; he-goat biting left arm : orgasm
contracting muscles, nerves ; fresh breath, exhaled from between
woman's dried lips, bathing bloodshot forehead ; frontal fingers of
twisted locks modulating breath ; boy's teeth nibbling at corner of
woman's lips ; cunt ejecting crumpled penis ; thrusting loins, woman
rolling penis against inside of thigh ; he-goat licking chilled salty
sweat on right side of boy's face ; boy's fingers, slipped into
woman's slimy hair, rubbing at embalmed scalp, nails scraping at
crusts of dried milk, make-up, jissom ; foam seething at corner of
lips — creased by smile — of woman ; in articulation of elbows
adjoined, boy gathering blackened head, heavy over muscles worn
by erection ; woman's lips pressing, ringed in middle by patch of
smooth skin, over vertebrae of raised neck ; boy's saliva, flowing
over side of cheek, dripping, over jutting jaw, onto throat, mixing with
foam frothing at corner of woman's lips ; boy's torso, hollowed by
raising of head, oscillating over breast ; woman rolling head to one
side ; boy pecking at eyelashes, smoothing lashes between lips :
tears pearling darkened by kohl ; boy rubbing lips against trickles of
kohl over temples ; penis striking — slimy, cold — inside of
woman's thigh ; glans mixing with curls crushed by weight of boy’s
pelvis ; boy lifting loins — jissom jarring blood in penis —, lifting

178 Pierre Guyotat
torso, kneeling : djellaba falling back over loins ; eyes scrutinizing
Venus incandescent : massed on rocky outcrop, goats farting, breath
clouding flint ; boy standing upright, stretching arms, hams, stepping
over woman's body, springing forth : heels striking sand, penis
shaken dripping over knee ; cloth flapping over whole body, in wind,
nomad rushing at akli from behind, wrapping loins, navel, in folds of
djellaba, setting cheek rounded by laughter against shepherd's
pock-marked ear, rubbing raised knee covered in warm cloth against
scaly hip of akli, pulling, scratching at skin of breasts with fingers —
numbed in woman's windswept hair —, with oval nails, dropping
open hand over belly, pubis, penis sheathed in rag ; index, thumb
ringed, squeezing glans, little finger catching moist balls pulled out
of rag ; akli, knees bending, burying pock-marked shoulders into
cloth : hollow of nomad’s clavicles exhaling vapour embalmed with
milk, with kohl ; nomad’s elbows digging into bottom of akli’s torso
; choking modulated, skull covered with dead locks exuding infected
sweat under nomad's bridled lips, akli squeezing thighs around boy's
fingers busy kneading into sweaty seam of right thigh-joint ; woman,
standing, baby slumping over her shoulder — head, bust bouncing
over her back —, walking, dokhala crumpled wet, crinkling in gusts
of wind — through pink cloth stuck with jissom to bulging pubis, skin
shining ochre, iridescent in moonlight ; boy pushing feet of shepherd
— penis stiffening against his wrist — into sand, under his furious
heels : rough horny skin scraping, bursting boils on ankles ; nomad,
seized by fit of coughing, spitting clot onto akli’s downy neck,
sneezing, blowing snot onto clot, pressing right side of purple face
against right shoulder of akli ; woman pulling baby's foot out of
neckline of dokhala, pressing foot against boy's back ; slimy muzzle
turning, boy laughing, scrutinizing breasts, with eyes burning under
encrusted lashes — toes trampling on sand over akli’s purulent
ankles : fingers hooked over shepherd’s shoulders vibrating sweaty
; snotty clot dripping down akli’s back, rolling over coccyx :
crouching, boy pressing sand-filled fist over clot ; fat of buttocks
quivering under trickle of sand ; boy, standing, rubbing sand — free

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fist grasping akli's neck — all over sand trickling bloody ; crouching
back down, burying soiled fist into sand ; woman, leaning forwards,
smoothing swinging locks ; boy throwing back head ; woman's
fingers digging into his curved neck — vertebrae undulating, with
surge of saliva ; boy taking, lifting her fingers — shining with kohl
— to his lips, kissing small square nails ; cunt throbbing, half-
opening, under cloth stuck close ; gust of wind biting at beaten loins
; boy, spinning on heels, hugging woman's loins, pressing lips
against pubis, licking cloth, tongue covering — lower down —
spongy swelling of fleece, flattened under fat lips, tip of tongue
probing right to fleshy rim of cunt ; woman pressing inside of thigh
against boy's cheek ; oily wet seed streaming over knee, foam
frothing at corner of lips smudged with kohl ; gust of wet wind
modulating series of short farts exhaled from arse of baby dozing ;
boy rolling up dokhala with both hands, burying head — hardened
by latent frost — underneath ; woman pulling back, springing forth,
running towards shelter ; boy, crouching, interlacing fingers over
parts of skull, neck, shoulders warmed by hot vapours from under-
parts of woman ; standing up ; baby buried under skeins of red wool,
woman bent down folding up stiffened skins, sweat caught powdery
in cracks of leather ; flinging skins onto female camels kneeling,
assembling bottles, bags, boxes, stuffing all into packs, tying packs
back onto camels ; boy, forehead bound in veil with medal dangling,
pulling up poles, sculptured post, springing forth, skipping, poles
brandished, stuck into sand ; breathless, tying poles under camels’
bellies : gust of wind driving back, lifting up sand, against growing
darkness ; rain, carried in columns from beneath accelerated
throbbing of Venus, splashing, icy ; boy pushing woman under
shelter ; wool soaked by streams of heated water from folds of
clothing tangled over breasts, bleeding red onto body of baby
dozing under arch — jewels tinkling against medal — of two torsos
touching ; akli, abscesses riddled by driving rain, digging, on knees,
into sand, beneath belly of female camel ; pock-marked arms
vibrating, drained of blood, in saturated sand ; monkey whining,

180 Pierre Guyotat
arms drooping, softened guerba knotted around neck, muzzie
bloody, member erect, eye scrutinizing Venus veiled in violet
vapours, treading on beheaded vipers ; grease exuded from grass
bung, hardening ; vortex veering back to Venus,

Vitry-sur-Seine, November 1968—April 1969.
