The Actor's Opprobrium (The Sunlandic Twins 20th Anniversary Edition)

I guess I should have known to stay away

From a snuff film by Jean Genet

But the cash was good and the director gave me the biggest scene

What does it mean

When Pentacostal born again virgins appear picketing in angry protest?

Oh those sloppy tarts have sulpherized hearts

Sure a dead man quietly pulling on his tongue

In a coffin after being hung

Does make strange erotic cinema but that was the great master's vision

And the actors agree to portray the fiend is best in a death fantasy

'Cause when one is licking the knife, ah well that is truly the life

Oh what does it mean

When the stagehand approaches wheeling in a guillotine

Let's play nice

Yes I want to be a star but that's going too far

Yes I'm still smarting from the bite

Of coital sessions in gelatal light

I'm questioning my chosen career

Don't think I'll be attending the premier