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Give 'em Air...

  posted by Mark Lyndon Pautz, Wednesday, December 20, 1995

The smokin' boys
  With the chokin' fish
    Give them air
      FUCKHEADS
        Give them air!

        Foot-pump lyin'
      Animals dyin'
    Give them air
  FUCKHEADS
Give them air!!

Wide-eyed torture
  Pavement slaughter
    Give them air
      FUCKHEADS
        Give them air!!!

        Severing thud
      Pavement blood
    Give them air
  FUCKHEADS
Give them air!!!!

...... But, there's more than one way to kill a karp ......

Ancient tradition
  From the bath to the kitchen
    Give them air
      FUCKHEADS
        Give them air!!!!!

        The season's pet
      To eat while wet
    Give them air
  FUCKHEADS
Give them air !!!!!!

Christmas' habitual
  Murder ritual
    Give them air
      FUCKHEADS
        Give them air!!!!!!!

        A Czech deviation
      Horrified frustration
    Fuck those
  AIRHEADS
Fuck them!!!!!!!!

...... I just don't get it ......

 

  Written in Prague, Czech Republic after witnessing (for the first time) the barbarity of the Christmas carp killing frenzy.
  Vendors set up barrels of fish on the sidewalk and kill them to order on the spot.
  The water in the barrels seldom has enough oxygen for the volume of fish.
  One can quite literally watch the carp drowning in water.
  December 20, 1995 (02h19); January 1, 2 & 6, 1996   Prague, Czech Republic.





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