An Eco-Sexual Dirge to Be Read Aloud

Linda Mary Montano and Nicolás Dumit Estévez

Linda: CHILDREN LIKE TO PLAY OUTSIDE IN BARE FEET AND SCREAM A LOT, WHEN FILLED WITH JOY.

Nicolás: Growing up, freedom for me translated into having the opportunity to work hand in hand with water, sand and salt, and mud, to shape and reshape, with a great deal of autonomy, my socio-cultural-spiritual-emotional worlds.

Linda: WHEN PEOPLE ARE 30 THEY THINK THEY HAVE TO BUY HOUSES, CARS AND TECHNOLOGICAL EQUIPMENT WHILE TAKING CARE OF FAMILIES. 

Nicolás: What tying a stone during rainy days did was to symbolically castrate Saint Peter, and hence force him to stop urinating on us. We were not concerned with acid rain but with copious golden showers!

Linda: AT 40, UNLESS PEOPLE GO TO THE GYM, THEIR STOMACHS GET BIG.

Nicolás: I presently understand guilt in connection to sin, and the sin I am getting at is one linked to the perpetration of oppression, whether racial, sexual, economic, or ecological.

Linda: WHEN PEOPLE ARE 50, THEIR FRIENDS START TO DIE AND SOMETIMES THEY CRY AT NIGHT IN BED.

Nicolás: Personal sacramental associations with nature emerged from my grandmother’s former beliefs in how observing absolute silence on Good Friday put one in contact with a boundless source of Holy Water. 

 Linda: AT 60, SOME PEOPLE JOIN CHORUSES AND SING OTHERWISE THEY TELL FAMILY SECRETS OVER BEERS IN A BAR.

Nicolás: During Annie Sprinkle’s and Elizabeth Stephens’s workshop I found myself in the English countryside, together with a group of amazing Eco-Sexuals, having non-genital, breath and energy orgasms with the moon, the stars, and the sky.

Linda: AT 70, INSOMNIA OR INCESSANT SLEEP OBLITERATES THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN DAY, NIGHT AND DREAM.

Nicolás: Can you imagine a church where priestesses, priests and people in the community read from a bible that does not have words, per se, but that is entirely made from leaves, roots, veins, wrinkles, moss, feathers, skin, eggs, clouds, magma, rocks… serving as a platform inviting one to embrace biophilia; one’s love for life.

Linda: AT -------------, PEOPLE DIE SOMETIMES ALONE, SOMETIMES IN ACCIDENTS, SOMETIMES SITTING IN MEDITATION POSTURES.

Saugerties and the Bronx, New York, September 2013