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    Grabbing Pussy
    Grabbing Pussy
    Grabbing Pussy
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    Grabbing Pussy

    By Karen Finley

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    A celebrated performance artist’s mesmerizing riffs on sex in American politics.

    Based on her widely praised performance piece Unicorn Gratitude Mystery ("Wickedly funny," as described by The New York Times), Karen Finley’s Grabbing Pussy explores the Shakespearean dynamics that surface when libidos and loyalties clash in the public and private personas of Donald Trump, Hillary and Bill Clinton, Huma Abedin and Anthony Weiner, and now Harvey Weinstein.

    Standing in the tradition of Allen Ginsberg’s Howl, Finley’s words jolt the reader into new insights about the ways the darkly private can drive the public realm in dizzying twists and turns. The aggression of intimacy, the disparity of gender, and the vital importance of hair are all encompassed in Finley’s exhilarating canter.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOR Books
    Release dateOct 23, 2018
    ISBN9781944869960
    Grabbing Pussy
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    Karen Finley

    Karen Finley has performed and exhibited her artwork at cultural centers and universities worldwide. Her books includes Shock Treatment, A Different Kind of Intimacy, Enough Is Enough and Living It Up. She teaches Art and Public Policy at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University.

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      Book preview

      Grabbing Pussy - Karen Finley

      GRABBING PUSSY

      ALSO BY KAREN FINLEY

      Shock Treatment

      Enough is Enough

      Living It Up

      Pooh Unplugged

      A Different Kind of Intimacy

      Aroused (Editor)

      George & Martha

      The Reality Shows

      grabbing pussy

      © 2018 Karen Finley

      All rights information: rights@orbooks.com

      Visit our website at www.orbooks.com

      First printing 2018.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher, except brief passages for review purposes.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data: A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.

      British Library Cataloging in Publication Data: A catalog record for this book is available from the British Library.

      Design and typesetting by Elyse J. Strongin, Neuwirth & Associates. Illustrations by Karen Finley.

      Published for the book trade by OR Books in partnership with Counterpoint Press.

      Distributed to the trade by Publishers Group West.

      paperback ISBN 978-1-944869-95-3

      ebook ISBN 978-1-944869-96-0

      For Pony

      FUCK POLITICS

      And he [Rubio] referred to my hands, ‘if they’re small something else must be small.’ I guarantee you there’s no problem, I guarantee it.

      Look at my hands

      Measure them to yours

      They aren’t small hands.

      Are they?

      I do wonder. Let me move them in front of you quickly

      With my crack, a rant attack of alternative facts

      Losing meaning to the facts

      This hand has built and squeezed every last cent, any cents, any sense of you

      This hand is a small hand

      It is large enough, this hand

      Fuck politics and everything about it

      I want to fuck the politics out of you

      I want to fuck the politics into you

      Pussy prick

      Please Putin

      Where are we in all of this genital election?

      Of pussy grabbing the lack of penis backpack

      The ability to men u strate

      Takes-over-the-consciousness-of-everything-else state.

      I will fuck politics from behind and then turn her over

      Till she squeals for more

      Till they tell me how they like it

      Let me fuck

      Till it hurts me more than you

      Fuck Politics

      PUSSY POWER

      I’m automatically attracted to beautiful [women]—I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star they let you do it. You can do anything . . .

      When I You We wait on the bus not like Rosa Parks

      But like a slobbering school idiot maniac white middle-aged rich triumphant ego sniveling surveying asshole that never took a bus anywhere

      Your ability

      When you use you

      When you is you

      My time is spent grabbing pussy like I really want to really grab your dick. What I do is when I am threatened by male desire—I man up. Let me man up. It is in these poetics of allowed franchised spaces of men connecting like a circle jerk my hands move as I talk in circle jerk formations, twisting with the rhythm of my pee on the snow, my cream whizz on the breeze – but I am on the bus and the memory won’t take hold of me. Billy Bush is sitting close and his legs and breath are hovering near. I can feel the sensation of his voice brush against my neck. Let me man up.Let me take a breath and resist the urge to undo the long red tie that shields my crotch. I can feel the pressure build, of his leg near mine. Let me man up. The tension escalates so I better speak of pussy, of conquests inside the bus like speaking of like a circle jerk. Let me man up. Let me take the lead in watching women so I don’t watch your male pumped body and you don’t see my quavering frame. Let me man up.

      Where I sublimate my own curiosity, my desire for you.

      To grab you

      Grab some dick

      Grab some penis

      Boys grab it

      Girls grab it

      I better not

      Let me grab me some pussy

      Bite off man’s naughty bits

      And feel my small manhood, my small hands

      Like a slender dove that creates

      Sign language to interpret

      In the air

      Fly away coo coo

      As my hair swept back

      A macaw

      A bird a fowl

      Pussy might find me

      For her supper

      In private I will let you call me

      Kitty

      Meow

      GRABBING PUSSY

      Grab them by the pussy. You can do anything.

      Grabbing pussy has always been hard (no pun intended)

      Grabbing pussy is a challenge even for those who live

      in one

      To hold onto labia—to get your pinky hooked on clitoris

      To let your claws hold onto the mane

      Pray tell or prey tell pussy tell me please let me hang on

      your grace

      Grabbing pussy has the consequences of digging deep into

      the interior

      Clutching canal of wetness

      The folding petals of wonderment that enclose onto the unseen

      Grab them by the pussy

      Grab her like a bitch.

      Let me grab pussy, physically hold onto pussy to

      psychically navigate

      With all my physical presence has to offer grabbing the soft

      tissue surrounding the entrance of desire

      I won’t be invited and need to force myself in

      My own primal scream my memory birth

      Let me grab pussy

      Grabbing childlike hands, fingers into cookie jars

      Cold pizza go grab a slice

      A steak well done with ketchup

      Grabber Grabber Grab her

      My pussy is a cup of coffee in this cold morning

      without you.

      Grab me some pussy

      That angry cat

      Make her purr—lion roar

      A pussy

      I’m one angry cat

      Vulva victoriouslicous

      Very vulva very veryberry vulva

      She said he’s a pussy

      I’m the pussy

      Call me a shiver quiver

      Cunt angry

      Vagjaglagragtagbaggaghagnagsagbragflagdrag anything

      or they will think I’m a fag

      Oh, Pussy, I need you so, for without you I have nothing

      to fear and destroy

      Nothing to navigate my withered self

      Help me, Pussy

      Be a good Puss

      And help

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