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Tulot's Savages

by William Cody Watson

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1.
Black Sea 00:34
Squirrel tail swaying til dark On the way to the next pot of black sea In the coffin car with the tombstone windshield We look at each other with knife teeth & cigarette pupils Can I catch a killer in my mind, with a skull etched into his palm Quiet heels Another black sea voyage to bind our arms back behind the booth I can kiss your temple, you can light a torch Give me all your knives, I need to cradle the kink
2.
Every night I wet my lips With river mud With river blood Under scrutiny of the three headed owl And I watch the gar with the mouth full of lightning mate in the green water
3.
Dense, starless ...tonight I'm drawing pictures of wolves and scorpions with deformed human mouths on napkins and I think about how mika's pussy is probably filled with gravel and the little rocks would split my penis open and the idea seems tempting to bleed to death inside pure mediocrity and I cough and imagine her vaginal walls growing teeth and devouring my cock but then out of nowhere she's in front of me holding a worn copy of t.s. eliot older than her and I think about how I know a thing or two about wastelands... and then suddenly there's one star brave enough to wiggle loose from the pitch black.
4.
Untitled 00:14
Turn off all the lights in my mind, I refuse to remain a human Light a candle and insert it into my heart, So I can be sure that I'm an animal
5.
Gravel 00:27
By the time he died his blood had already turned to a vermilion sand weeping from the gash in his neck Classless and tan in the August sun on the gravel road and the gravel was consuming him and the sun was baking the sand into glass His mouth was full of gray feathers and the cop asked her to ID him but she couldn't speak she was busy thinking about the last time they fucked.
6.
Rodeo 00:39
I should've died in the rodeo Broken back spine snapped belly gored by bull horn skull smashed in by bull hoof Smoke flows from bull nose hot My guts like wine soaked leather candy spread red in rodeo mud then there's my brains too like a mess of sugary cotton and gelatin Should've seen massive sweaty flex of bull flesh strut as I close my eyes to sip peace from damp rodeo air The spectators won't always respect the victor, but the clowns on the sidelines will
7.
Away 00:34
Get me the fuck Away From these dogs of burning disregard, Singing the blackened hymn of boredom as if it were peril Never even had a taste of spite on the rough swamp at the back of their tongue for they never left the bowel Never even had a taste for finer savagery because meat was not in the vocabulary, Enemy meat, you devour then wear the hide Get me the fuck away from these shrivelers who want to sleep til they die and can't adjust the fire.
8.
Future 00:27
As we arch and wriggle our way thru these sped and high-wired days the only man to be found with a knife in his boot is the definitive maniac with a lust for undignified chaos and a worship of blood there's no heroes here and hasnt been for years, just a vague apparition of murky men trapped in electronic debris or chemical boxes
9.
A night out without you Steeped in a stink, rotten and drunk Another girl eyeing me, spitting You left Lucinda on my voice mail singing "Hot Blood" I texted you "when i'm with you I can seeeeee in the dark" And an hour later in the dark of our bedroom the only light was the orange glow of your cigarette You regarded my odor I told you a story about a Shepard who'd had to kill his last sheep for meat and hide We slept with a barrier of rust between us
10.
what if your belly turned into a watermelon green pipes and the sun exploding that was something i'd say to her in bed and she'd tell me how much i would enjoy watching the grapes and raspberries fall from behind her knees
11.
Bloodied, dumb, sweating, panting, I'm dying on some street in Memphis. Outside some bar, I'm dying. I'm drunk and in love with the girl with the knife in her hand. "C'mere," and I wiggle my finger. I want to bury her head in the hole she's put in my gut.
12.
I Don't 00:17
I don't want to explore circuitry I don't want to forget the way cold water feels I don't want to live in a bank I don't want to forget what a kiss feels like

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Tulot's Savages is a small collection of audio recordings of stream of consciousness writing.


past words on the work of William Cody Watson...

"William Cody Watson may be one of the last great psychic vikings trapped in the tectonic slip of revelation and total oblivion. Gift or curse; Watson is a writer in the truest sense of the word—a writer’s writer, at that—the type that pulls themselves awake, sparsely dressed, in strange cob-webbed locales where gods and idols have never held jurisdiction, just to report back to nobody and everybody about whatever phantasms he met head on the night before. In The King Snake we find the courage to laugh at (and with) ennui in a manner that is nothing shy of fearless. Watson has mastered the ability to slouch towards nihilism and then spit warm whisky in its eye. Make no mistake: there is real blood on these pages. Words not written, but lived. For literary cosmonauts like Watson, it’s the only way." - Roger Calamaio on Watson's poetry zine, The King Snake.

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released June 26, 2016

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