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DIET TERROR

by DIET TERROR

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THE HOOVER HAS AN UNLIKELY DEMEANOUR FOR AN AGENT OF THE APOCALYPSE, SITTING IN THE CUPBOARD OF AN ORDINARY HOUSEHOLD, THE STRENGTH OF ITS SUCTION NECESSARY DUE TO THE BEIGE SHAG-PILE CARPET BOUGHT FROM HABITAT THE YEAR BEFORE, AND THE DOG, AN INBRED SUPPOSEDLY ‘NON-SHEDDING’ MINIATURE DASHOUND, AN INACCURATE SELLING POINT FOR SUCH A PROBLEMATIC POST-SPECIES RUNT. PULLED OUT TO LICK UP THE FRAGRANT POWDER SPRINKLED BEFORE IT, THE HOOVER IS JOGGED INTO A MOMENT OF UNEXPECTED SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS TRIGGERED BY THE ABSURDITY OF ITS POSITION IN THIS WORLD. HEAD DOWN AND TURNED ON, IT STARTS TO SUCK, BUT THIS TIME IT’S POWER COMES AS A SURPRISE TO US ALL. THE SITUATION ZOOMS OUT FROM THE DOMESTIC TO THE GLOBAL AND WE LEVITATE. IT’S INVIGORATING TO FLOAT AROUND HERE IN A MOMENT OF COLLECTIVE ECSTACY AS THE CHANT OF ITS SUCTION SOOTHES US LIKE THE VIDEOS OF DOMESTIC APPLIANCES WE WATCH ON YOUTUBE TO GET OURSELVES TO SLEEP AT NIGHT. THERE IS AT FIRST, THE FAINT OFF-SMELL OF DIRTY OBJECTS, NOSTALGIC SOUND BITES AND THE FLESHY UNCERTAINTIES OF PEOPLE WE ONCE KNEW BOBBING AROUND US, BUT THIS SOON SUBSIDES AS WE REALISE IT’S ALL GETTING CLEANER. TEMPORARILY DISTRACTED BY A CHE GUEVARRA ENERGY DRINK WHOSE SLOGAN ‘A REVOLUTION OF ENERGY’ RESONATES WITH OUR CURRENT SITUATION, WE SMILE, WHILE A SHAMANIC RITUAL FLOATS PAST AS AN ETHICAL BUSINESS WORKSHOP FOR THE WORLD BANK. WE FEEL SPIRITUAL HERE, LIKE ONE OF THOSE DREAMS WE OFTEN HAVE WHERE WE ARE RUNNING ON THE SPOT ABOVE THE GROUND WITH NO FACE. THIS IS WHAT JESUS MUST HAVE FELT LIKE WE THINK, WHICH DESPITE OUR GENERAL APATHY TO THE CHRISTIAN FAITH IS STILL OUR ONLY REFERENCE POINT FOR THIS BEYOND BODY STATE, A SENSATION NEVER FULLY INVOKED BY THOSE MINDFULNESS CLASSES AT THE LOCAL JOB CENTRE, A MUCH NICER PLACE SINCE ITS REFURBISHMENT AS A BAR SPECIALISING IN LOCALLY PRODUCED REAL ALE. EVEN THAT AYAHUASCA PACKAGE HOLIDAY WE WENT ON DIDN’T COME CLOSE TO THIS, WE THINK AS THE SITUATION BUILDS TOWARDS AN EXTREME CLIMAX AND SHINY FEATURELESS FLESH IS NOW FLYING PAST US FROM EVERY DIRECTION, LEAPING TO ITS COLLECTIVE DESTINY LIKE SALMON UP A WATERFALL. AND WE ARE TOO. BOBBING AROUND UNTIL WE ARE ALL VIBRATION, IT FEELS EGALITARIAN THAT NO ONE HAS A FACE TO LOOK AT US. WE’VE GONE BEYOND THE BODY NOW. WE ARE ONE MIND. AND AS THE HOOVERS CLEAN HYMN GOES OUT WITH US, WE KNOW THAT THERE CAN BE NO CONTAMINATION HERE. WE FEEL AT ONE WITH THE GNOSTICS THAT CASTRATED THEMSELVES FOR ENLIGHTENMENT, ONLY WE WENT FURTHER AND NOW THERE'S NOTHING. IT’S THE BANKRUPTCY WE’VE ALWAYS DREAMED OF.
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FOIE GRAS 02:52
STANDING AT THE TOP OF THE PYRAMID, WAITING IN THE QUEUE TO BE SACRIFICED, YOU ARE CONTEMPLATING YOUR FOODSTUFF VALUE, WHEN YOU HEAR THEM CALL ‘ZERO’ FOR YOUR TURN, YOU HAND OVER YOUR SHOEZONE PUMPS AND DIET TERROR HOOD TO THE GODS AND LOOK AT THE ONE WHOSE JOB IT IS TO END YOU, EYES LOCKED, YOU REALISE YOU LOVE HIM WITH ALL THE LOVE OF A HOSTAGE, HIS EYES LIKE CHLORINE POOLS, THE GODS ONLY WANT TO EAT THE BEST YOU REMIND YOURSELF, AND YOU JUMP. YOUR END MUSIC STARTS AS AIR BILLOWS UNDER YOU LIKE A FRESH DUVET AND SPARKLES OF LIGHT HIT YOU FROM THE SEA BELOW, MAKING YOU LOOK LIKE A DIAMOND, THIS END IS YOUR DESTINY! BY NOW, PIECES OF YOU ARE FLYING OFF IN DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS IN A PSYCHEDELIC EXPLOSION THAT YOU CAN SOMEHOW VIEW FROM ABOVE, THIS WASN’T HOW IT LOOKED IN APOCALYPTO, NOW, THERE IS NO SEA, JUST YOUR BODY PARTS FLOATING AROUND AGAINST A BACKDROP OF COLOURS, FADING LIKE AN APPLE SCREEN SAVER. AND WITH THE AFTERTASTE OF CAPRI-SUN IN YOUR MOUTH, YOU REMEMBER THE DREAM YOU ONCE HAD WHERE YOU WERE PROJECTILE BREAST FED IN A PUBLIC SPACE WHILE EVERYONE ELSE WATCHED. THOSE FUCKERS PREPPED YOU LIKE FOIE GRAS, YOU THINK. AND YOU DIE. YOUR END MUSIC STOPS AND PLAYS AGAIN.
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THREE PRAYING MANTIS’ ARE ON THE WALLS OF A PUBLIC TOILET. A POPULAR HOLIDAY DESTINATION PROVIDES THE BACKDROP TO THEIR TRAGIC LOVE TRIANGLE. LOCKED IN ITS RHYTHMS, THEY DANCE WITH COMPLETE DISREGARD FOR THEIR AUDIENCE, A SMALL GROUP OF BRITISH TOURISTS, WHO HAD SEEN SOMETHING SIMILAR ON DAVID ATTENBOROUGH. IT'S A CHOREOGRAPHY AS THE THREE PULSATE IN RITUAL TRANCE, WITH A SENSE OF TOGETHERNESS THEY HAD NEVER FELT BEFORE. IMPRESSED BY HIS MOVES, SHE CHOOSES THE ONE WHO DANCES THE BEST AND FLASHES HIM THE EYE. IN A SECOND HE JUMPS, ACROSS THE TOILET AND ONTO HER BACK, HOLDING HER IN PASSIONATE EMBRACE. SOME KIND OF NOSTALGIC DANCE MUSIC PLAYS WHILE A TOURIST FILMS IT ON HIS IPHONE. THE REJECTED ONE CONTINUES TO PULSATE, MESMERISED AS HE WATCHES THEM IN THE ACT. AND IN A MOMENT OF PASSION, SHE BENDS AROUND AND RIPS OFF HER LOVERS HEAD. HIS DYING SPASMS INCREASE HER PLEASURE, MAKING HIM INTO A LIVE DEATH VIBRATOR. THE TOURISTS FEEL A SENSE OF RARE INSIGHT AND AFTER POSTING IT TO INSTAGRAM, THEY LEAVE THE MANTIS TO HER POST-COITAL MOMENT OF SHAME AND OVER-EXPOSURE. SHE DROPS THE HALF EATEN HEAD IN THE TOILET BY MISTAKE AND COWERS OFF.
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POST-CAPITALIST DEATH DISCO

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released January 15, 2018

Words and Voice: Rebecca Lennon
Sounds: Benedict Drew
Mantis Cover Artwork: Max Ammo

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