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Black Ear

from Futile Exorcise by Paul Rooney

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And this is the hutch where my pet stoat lives. And there is the bottle of water on the outside of his hutch. Like a little hospital drip. And that is my dad opening his hutch door, to give him his dinner.

Is that a child's voice? ... Are you hearing things? ... The room is very large and bright ... It was dark before ... You can definitely hear the child's voice, can't you? ... It is the voice from that film you saw here ... You remember it ... It was dark ... The filmmaker showed a film of his own sons pet stoat ... The filmmaker used his own son to do the voice over of the film ... You read about it on the gallery leaflet ... He made his own son narrate the film ... A horrible thing happens in the film ... But his son did not know it was going to happen ... You enjoyed that film, didn't you? ... You remember now ... Of course you do ... A stoat, a dog ... Dog savages stoat ... The filmmaker wanted to record how his son would react to the horrible thing ... The filmmaker knew this would be cruel ... But you had to laugh ... Life and art are cruel and funny ... You know that ... You had to laugh ...

You are looking at a film of my stoat. And he is eating a boiled egg my dad has given him. And he is very hungry. And it is winter so he is white but he has black around his ear hole, there, that ear, now you can see it. And he also has a black tip on his tail. Why does he have a black tip on his tail Dad? Because stoats do, some stoats do. And my stoat is called Black Ear. And now here comes the dog from next door, he is called Henry. And he is ugly brown.

The voice has departed the film, you presume ... Maybe it has wandered the earth ... Then returned here ... It is not in your head ... Not this time ... You have memories in your head, don't you? ... Of course you do ... Memories that are awoken when you visit a place ... Memories that are the tattered, blood-drenched remains of another time, that bestir themselves when they want to ... You have no say in the matter ... So this voice is like a memory ... But it is not in your head ... Perhaps you have failed in your obligations to it ... To this memory ... Sorry, to this voice ... Maybe that is why it has stirred ... Perhaps you need to lay it to rest ... You need to lay it to rest ...

Perhaps you should lay it to rest.

Perhaps you need to lay it to rest ... You do, don't you? ... You need to lay it to rest ...

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from Futile Exorcise, track released April 3, 2017

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