June 9, 2022

Tetrodotoxin Zombie Fish: Clairvius Narcisse, Heavy Metal, and Yakuza Lazareth

Brought together--officially deceased--founding members of 27club, through Guy Clark--not pictured, song about HeavyMetal, and earth-moving Caterpillar Dozers (and how Rock 'n' Roll means those men who operate those CATS, not Metallica: 'You do not drive it, you operate it), whose excellent placement and blue collar vibration makes this low art tribute to Dogs Playing Poker and Nighthawks at the Diner, inhabited with Humphrey Bogart James Dean and Marilyn Monroe its impossible-to-tame subject, only surpassed by the Michaelangelo Last Supper Shindig in Heaven (even Guy Paellaert is jealous of these Rock Dreams), not dexterously rendered--more quick sketches nut plein air before they dose once more, at associate unaccredited Japanese sushi bar where Puffer fish is on the menu, Rock Stars comprise its playlist, and ex-Lolita Cosplay server moms are FOH, but chef, whose license to not kill with deadly flesh of only item on any menu whose allure is its lethality--called in sick, but who, in hasty decision of rare Japanese foolhardiness, deputized understudy, dishwasher (unlicensed and choked with testosterone), to fastidiously carve the Zombie fish -- without nicking its multitude of nephrotoxic sacks whose gall his training ensures long berth, his precaution between time of day and deep Tetrodotoxin paralysis--identical ingredient of Vodou potion whose undead slave was he who was it intended, Clairvius  Narcisse--first recorded Zombie.


Eternal thralldom, these diners will find themselves, first inhumed in laminate coffins, externally dead (imperceptible pulse and respiration), their days spent in loamy necropolis, unable to maneuver or give tongue from inside horrific graves--until third day, worse still, evil Yakuza Lazareth comes scraping atop their choking enclosure--not to save them ...


... to subjugate them.




SEEN NEXT: they are approximately dead, not quite alive--barely recognized as slumberous kitchen staff, peeling vegetables...forever.

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