\crpage{101}
bite-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 {\col} Wazzag pissing over dog- 
master's legs ; soldier, urine frothing at feet, pushing whore back, 
Wazzag's whole body trembling {\col} 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 
relieved body, kissing neck marked with finger-prints ; gun-butt 
digging into Wazzag's breast {\col} member swelling with urine ; muscles 
relaxed, 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 
rubbing, 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 
\crpage{102}
from member, running into arse {\dashcom} 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 {\dashcom} 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 {\dashcom} 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 {\dashcom} 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 {\dashcom} 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 {\col}
Wazzag moaning {\col} member aroused by jissom, forcing dog-master's 
fist, hands sweating, pressed against counter ; pimp pissing into 
open latrine ; waking blond worker {\col} straightening up, pulling gluey 
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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 
{\col} blond squeezing whore between arms --- foot digging in jerks into 
fat of buttocks of feverish club-foot {\dashcom} 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 
ringlets on temples \colsaid{{\fivedots}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{\thd} 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 
Kba\"{\i}l{\thd} 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{\thd} standing on 
\crpage{104}
edge of cliff, reserve-troops panting, growling{\thd} ear-rings clinking in 
blue ozone, dangling from ears blocked with gypsum{\thd} stifled howl 
driving back blood between your teeth{\thd} gun-butt grinding skull of 
Venus, dagger piercing eyes hardened in anger{\thd} Venus sprawling,
trembling, scraps of your shag catching in her teeth, jerking{\td}} ;
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 {\semislash} 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 {\dashcom} 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 {\col} master 
crouching, drawing frizzy worker by shoulders, standing worker up,
pulling man out of box-room {\slashsemi} 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 {\dashcom}
crossing garden ; flies assailing hands, soiled face of shaved worker 
; 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 
\crpage{105}
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 {\col} 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 {\coldash} 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 {\col}
\colsaid{{\fivedots}simulated shot destroys simulated man{\td} go back into brothel, 
trainer{\thd} with first blow of gun-butt, turn walls into fences, with 
second, bodies into dogs{\fivedots}} {\semislash} 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 \colthdsaid{{\td}dog taking my jissom, my 
veins filled with spittle, with snot, with digestive juices{\fourdots} hungry dog, 
pull, untie, devour dead membranes blocking my arse, hanging from 
my member{\thd} even aroused, they only harden by half{\thd} eat folds, 
fleshy seams{\td} gobble{\td} gulp{\td} let your teeth, your lips, shape me a 
smooth body, full, polished{\thd} let contraction of toe shake back of 
head, contraction of member shake lips{\thd}} ; 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 {\dashcom} cheek vibrating, 
\crpage{106}
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 {\dashcom} fingers, palms, sliding over membranes 
smeared with saliva, between effervescent buttocks of blond ;
worker's cheek, head bent, rubbing Wazzag's swollen mouth {\col}
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 {\dashcom} 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 
\crpage{107}
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 {\semislash} 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 {\dashcom} rectangular marks of bandages removed for 
pose {\col} 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 {\dashcom}
foam frothing in vermilion cheeks \coltdsaid{{\thd} I've shot all my night-juice 
{\col} you may now swallow the filaments, trailing in water, pulled from 
these pants that I order you to wash in the trough, to hang out on 
barbed wire in fiery wind, on the double{\thd} after, while my pants are 
drying, I'll keep you in my bed, cook you in my sauce{\td} come, bend 
down, whistle {\col} let me touch you, feel you, hear you{\thd} I'll make a 
special sauce{\td} kiss my mouth, my glans, give it some spice{\td}} {\semislash} on 
dune, curly-haired worker, knee digging between thighs of shaved 
girl, pushing girl back onto sand ; fists plunging into slope, ridge 
\crpage{108}
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 {\col} curly worker, lifting chest, shaking 
inflamed head {\col} 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 {\dashcom}
aspiring her breath {\col} 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 
\crpage{109}
loins --- worker's member, half expelled, discharging fluid jissom {\dashcom} 
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 {\col} 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 {\dashcom} 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 
\crpage{110}
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 {\dashcom} 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,
\crpage{111}
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 \col 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 
{\col} child, stiffening legs, grabbing claws, bringing claws towards mouth 
contracted by erection ; jissom spurting {\col} 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 m\^{e}l\'{e}e, licking youth's member, buttocks, leaving trails 
pf 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-foot 
stepping over bitches --- tongues wrapping around gluey balls 
\crpage{112}
{\dashcom} crawling on knees over slope, hand hollowing sand beneath 
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 {\semislash} 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 {\col} 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 {\dashcom} 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 {\comdash} 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 
\crpage{113}
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 {\dashcom} 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 {\col} 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 {\col} 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 
{\dashcom} 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\texttrademark --- with 
spongy floor-cloths pulled off water-pipes ; Wazzag rising up 
propped on elbows, wiping {\col} gluey ringlets on saltpetred wall, lips 
soiled with scraps of regurgitated fat on intact foot-slab ; blond 
worker trampling on Wazzag's soaked shorts {\semislash} club-foot crouching, 
pushing street-door with forehead ; on fists, on knees, drawing back 
\crpage{114}
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 {\col}
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 {\dashcom} 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 {\col} contracted head of youth groaning, crystalline,
with each compression ; hand of blond worker digging down, seizing 
psoas {\col} head, mute, vibrating ; whereupon, same hand, clenched,
moving up over torso, forcing serrated muscle, other hand jerking,
groping --- fingers spread, half-closed, spread, joined {\dashcom} 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 
\crpage{115}
worker, drawing away from wall, raising leg, placing foot onto pink 
buttocks of blond, pressing {\col} 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 {\dashcom} ejaculating {\col} jissom filling open edge of bandage ; club-foot 
crossing relaxed legs over legs of blond ; blond worker --- frizzy 
worker pulling foot away {\dashcom} 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 {\semislash} 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 {\col} 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 {\col} two drillers, sweat 
flooding eyes, jeans burning buttocks, fire beating onto temples, 
separating entwined limbs, crouching, rising {\col} members pointing 
hard, gleaming, lips of glans crammed with moistened sand {\col}
Wazzag, arse scorched, shifting along wall, to cages ; drillers 
pressing close, driving whore back with heat of members only, 
towards middle of garden {\col} Wazzag narrowing pock-marked eyelids ; 
ears flattened, vibrating at temples, pointed ; hairs bristling on chest,
on thighs, fluffy down on nape, on shoulders, fiery rays skimming 
\crpage{116}
over body inclined, loins arched, advancing in small steps, shifting 
buttocks to one side --- penis of one worker touching hip {\col} eyes 
closed, shaved worker thrusting penis forward, spitting, foot kicking 
sand over Wazzag's hams {\col} 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 {\col} shaved worker, wiping --- with sand ---
shit drying on skull, lips, cheeks, leaning back against tamarisk,
masturbating, pointing ringed penis towards Wazzag's back {\col} 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 {\col} Wazzag's teeth,
clenched, enclosing sandy glans {\col} 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 {\col} breathing in long 
draughts, breath sweeping, cool, over trace of jissom on whore's 
back ; knee of dark worker striking shoulder, Wazzag releasing teeth,
fingers taking pitted penis, pressing shaft down towards mouth,
caressing curve with palm of hand, opening mouth, wedging penis 
amongst deposits of vomit {\col} 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 {\col} 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 {\col} snot mixing with jissom {\col} shaved worker standing up,
tip of espadrille smearing jissom, snot, through downy curls {\col}
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 {\col} penis hardening inside Wazzag's cheek,
jissom spurting, shaking, filling cheek {\col} Wazzag, pulling penis out,
\crpage{117}
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 {\dashcom} sprinkling 
tint cones of sand over middle of torso, down to navel {\col} whore 
immobile, body insonorous, scrutinizing blue fire {\col} sand running into 
fold of groin {\col} 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 {\col} penis of latter, upturned, striking belly --- 
covered by dark worker's hand {\col} swinging between doorposts at edge 
of garden, blond driller, hitched naked onto shoulders of club-foot {\col}
frizzy driller, penis ejaculating, packing club-foot's head into one leg 
of shorts, laughing, striking bagged head {\col} 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 {\col} 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 {\dashcom} pink pis\'{e} crumbling 
under furious finger-nails of blond {\col} regular rubbing of frizzy 
worker's jeans on club-foot's buttocks irritating blond {\col} 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 {\col} eyes, 
veins, lips ; club-foot choking, worker spitting into open hand, sliding 
dripping hand over lips of youth ; heels striking groin of youth lifting, 
spreading thigh {\col} pissing ; frizzy worker --- hands, plastered against 
club-foot's belly, detecting heat of bladder {\dashcom} flinging one wrinkled 
hand onto penis shaken by stream, grabbing, squeezing member {\col}
youth, torso sighing, drawing urine back into bladder ; whereupon, 
frizzy worker removing hand, enveloping heel of blond, heaving, 
holding heel tight {\col} sweat from hand bathing --- heated by erection 
\crpage{118}
--- tarred rope of espadrille ; blond worker's penis again hardening,
curved over club-foot's scabby skull {\crpage} ejaculation opening mouth of 
frizzy worker buried in buttocks of blond ; relaxing legs resting 
against legs of youth {\col} 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 {\dashcom} 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 {\col} blond pulling club-foot's hair,
smoothing sweaty strands between fingers, detaching curls caught in 
pus from abscess {\col} 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 {\col} 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 {\col} sweat advancing in fold of 
\crpage{119}
groin {\col} jissom flooding club-foot's mouth, nostrils palpitating inside 
shorts {\col} 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 {\col} sweat rushing into junctions of triangle {\col} 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 {\col} 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 {\col} 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 {\col} 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 {\col} 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 {\dashcom}
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 
\crpage{120}
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 {\dashslash} 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 {\dashsemi} 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 {\dashcom}
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 {\col} 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 {\dashcom} dropping down drowsy onto shaded sand ;
blond aspiring frizzy worker's jerky breath, sigh of orgasm,
\crpage{121}
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 {\dashcom} 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 
\crpage{122}
of naked worker, falling backwards onto \hmm{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 {\col} 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 pis\'{e} 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 {\col} 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 ; 
rings of grime {\col} 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 --- 
\crpage{123}
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 {\col} 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 {\dashcom} 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 {\col} 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 {\col} 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- 
\crpage{124}
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 {\col} 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 {\dashcom}
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 {\col} Wazzag, shadow of pimp shading legs. 
raising arms, opening mouth, spreading thighs ; bent forward, loins 
arched, spreading buttocks ; swinging head {\col} ear-rings, coral ringing 
shining, shaking free, out of greasy ringlets ; whore-master sliding 
\crpage{125}
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 {\dashcom} spurring sand cooled by shadow of bodies ; whore-master, 
beyond trellis, climbing up low dune {\col} 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 {\dashcom} delving, in streaming sweat, into front pocket 
of jeans ; against phalange, through slimy cloth, beaten member 
heating, vibrating \col fingers pinching second note patched with Band- 
Aid\textregistered, 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 {\col} his shadow, his perfume, 
arousing hearts of women {\col} 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 {\col} 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 
\crpage{126}
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 {\dashcom} bowing head {\col} 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 {\col} 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 {\semifourslash}
gangas flying up under shepherd's feet, swirling in odour of 
abscesses hollowed by flint, beaks buzzing {\col} 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 {\col} 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 {\dashcom} 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 {\col} 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 {\col} 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 ha\"{\i}k, 
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 {\col} 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 {\col} 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 {\col} 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 {\dashcom} closing lips around thumb ; baby 
placing guerba at nomad's feet ; nomad kissing, sucking thumb, baby 
sucking at smooth heel {\col} 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 {\col} 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 {\dashcol} of woman, pressing, heating, 
one side of boy's chest {\col} 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 {\col} 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 {\col} 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 {\col} 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, ha\"{\i}k raised. 
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over woman's head {\col} 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 {\dashcom} 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 {\col} 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 {\col} 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 
ruffled 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 ha\"{\i}k, 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 
muzzles ; woman moaning, frizzy curls of hair sticking in sweat on 
neck, unveiling nomad's face, elbows propped on sand, rolling back 
ha\"{\i}k 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 {\col} held 
back in cheeks ; rolling head to one side, moaning, tears drowning 
mauve iris, spitting clots onto turf {\col} sand soaking up clots, stalks. 
moistened, reviving green ; nomad bringing lightened head in front 
of woman's sunny face {\col} tip of woman's tongue forcing lips, teeth of 
boy, licking inside of cheeks, gums, tongue ; boy choking ; woman 
digging hand under boy's buttocks, 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 {\col} member, sharpened, touching 
baby's arse ; baby arching loins ; sigh from woman {\col} 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 {\col} 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 
respiration 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 ; 
camel rubbing top of neck onto shepherd's scalp {\col} 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 {\col} 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 {\col} nomad moaning,
\crpage{135}
pulling back {\col} 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 {\col} muscles, menses, working over engulfed 
penis, teeth teasing grimy teat {\col} 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 
rush of milk, trembling against upper chest ; back of hand lifting 
right 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 {\dashcom} over woman's 
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feet crossed contracted ; boy, one side of head fondled, one side 
rubbed {\col} 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. 
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taking, lifting rein to lips, nibbling, chewing --- feverish, arse 
palpitating against pubis in core of haunches {\dashcom} other hand 
fondling shepherd's hip through putrid rag ; rein, gnawed, giving way 
{\col} 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 {\dashcom}
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 {\dashcom} 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 
\hmm{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 {\col} 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 {\col} finger drying in zephyr, denuded hip, 
cheek, of swooning akli, level with crane ; whereupon, boy squashing 
thumb against top of rump {\col} 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 ha\"{\i}k rolled between spreading breasts of woman. 
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sticking gluey ; boy nibbling, lifting ha\"{\i}k, head raised, spitting cloth 
back over woman's muzzle ; tongue flicking, teeth pulling, 
straightening creases, smoothing ha\"{\i}k 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 {\col} 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 
grasses, 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 {\col} 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, 
\hmm{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 {\col} cunt half opening, spitting, opening {\col} glans pushing pollen 
inside ; under fingers of boy, lips, cheeks, of woman blooming. 
thighs thrown back ; penis sliding, melting into cunt ; boy panting {\col}
in torso, heart forcing lung ; prismatic eyes filling with tears ; legs 
vibrating, \hmm{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{\comdash} forehead, nose 
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pushing tears towards eyes, clots of jissom expelled from glans with 
shaking sobs {\dashcom} 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 palms, 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 {\col} sandy horn of heel sliding over 
gluey 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 {\col} woman, muzzle throbbing beneath ha\"{\i}k, 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 {\col} 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 {\dashcom} strengthening, filling with jissom ; on 
slope of thigh ridged by pectineus, member, dropped by fingers of 
woman suffocating --- muzzles pressed together {\dashcom} shedding folds 
{\col} 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 \hmm{poxy} cuticle under lower jaw, forcing ganglions under tonsils. 
rolling 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 
\hmm{violaceous} ; heel lifting sexual cluster {\col} hand holding penis down over 
thigh ; on heel, balls spreading, pores scintillating ; chipped thumb- 
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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 
\hmm{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 {\col} 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 \hmm{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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\hmm{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 {\col} 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. 
\hmm{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 \hmm{acheb} rummaging in saddle-pack, pulling 
out painted leather bag, returning to swooning body, kneeling. 
pulling \hmm{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 {\gl} 
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woman's buttocks brushing over sweaty coat of he-goat {\col} 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 
\hmm{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 {\dashcom} stroking belly sticky with 
\hmm{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 {\dashcom} 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 {\col} 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 {\col} 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 \hmm{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 {\col} 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 ; \hmm{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 {\col} 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 {\dashcom}
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 {\dashcol} panting, hugging tree, rubbing pubis, fold of groin, one 
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side of re-hardened penis --- fist covering glans {\dashcol} 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 \hmm{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 {\col} 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 {\col} 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 \hmm{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 \hmm{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 {\col} 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 {\col} 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 {\col} 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 --- 
\hmm{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 {\col} 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{\comdash} 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 {\col} 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 
{\col} 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 
rolling 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. 
rubbing throat on sand, mouth poised, lifting beetle on top of snout. 
held in hollow of skull, between horns ; woman, fist holding vulva 
open, leaping onto boy, embracing him with her free arm, squashing 
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her breasts against his chest {\col} 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 {\col} 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 
{\col} 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 {\col} 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 
{\col} 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 {\dashcom} hand grabbing, pulling at 
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woman's hair ; akli, kneeling, wiping arse with rag, standing, stuffing 
rag 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 {\dashcom} 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 
rag, 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 
refracting 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 
\crpage{162}
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 {\col} 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 {\dashcom} squeezing fingers interlaced over teat ; opening pink mouth 
{\col} 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\textregistered 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 \hmm{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. 
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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 {\col} 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 {\dashcom} 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. 
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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 {\dashcom}
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 {\col} 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 {\dashcom} 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 
{\dashcom} 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 {\col} 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 {\col} 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, 
rolled 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 {\dashcom}
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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 {\dashcom} 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, 
rubbing 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 {\col} lachrymal liquid susurrating between 
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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 
{\col} 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 {\col} 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 {\col} 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 {\col} 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 {\col} 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 
{\col} ants hooked onto his dilated lips {\col} 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 {\col} 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 
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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 {\col} 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 {\col} 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 {\col} 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 {\col} chins touching, vibrating ; boy lifting woman's croup on his 
forearms {\col} jissom bursting in glans ; balls sticking gluey to fleshy flap 
under cunt {\col} 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 {\col} 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 
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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 {\col} 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 {\dashcom} 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 {\col} 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 {\col} 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 {\col} 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, 
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arms drooping, softened guerba knotted around neck, muzzle 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, 

\signoff{Vitry-sur-Seine, November 1968--April 1969.}