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First Snake of the Season

from COUNTRY LOGIC by DATSON

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Outrage, Obscenity and Madness
Elizabeth Gertsakis’ digital paintings and works on paper reinterpret the illustrations accompanying reports of crimes and misdemeanors published in broadsheet newspapers in 1870s Victoria. One story concerned the sighting of the first snake of the season.

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It was the first snake of the season in Whittlsea
she'd seen him at the pub, in her dreams, and on tv
a messenger from god all radiant & nude
loitering at laundromat exuding moral turpitude

First snake of the season puppy sacrificed,
three guinea pig, the mayor's duck
and then the vicar's wife

Chaos in Colac, Browns are stirred
tiger snakes, bites that ache till you get to heaven
tiger snakes bites that ache till you get to heaven

Cobras and taipans, south american pets
hiding in the woodcut over to the left

The moral of this story? The last verse of this song?
Eve now runs the general store, Adam is a highwayman
First snake of the season, fruit of knowledge not of reason
first snake of the season, fruit of knowledge not of reason

if paradise gets lost look behind the cross
where tourniquets of faith have cut the venom off
where tourniquets of faith have cut the venom off.

First snake of the season
First snake of the season
First snake of the season
First snake of the season

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from COUNTRY LOGIC, track released January 4, 2020
Written by Geoffrey Datson
Produced byGeoffrey Datson
Engineered byGeoffrey Datson
Design by Annette Hughes
Video clip Annette Hughes

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GEOFFREY DATSON is a sound artist, combining spoken word, electronica and instrumentation in his recordings. Many poets recite their work to music, but few are also composers. Datson's work is a synthesis of forms of sonic expression in which the voice and the sound field are interdependent. ... more

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