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The Shaving Horse Here at the juncture of the ancient and the throwaway, the takeaway, the ritual of meat on concrete; a Friday night. Here is revived the shaving horse, ridden into service at the disposable ceremony of new forms; shaved into the city. Layers of substitution as she sits naked astride the horse (Filly) Donner kebab, Cold clinical unit. Mechanised bodily functions in smooth even strips. Appropriation of the aged, the archaic form of horse Straddle the table, domestic arena of meat. Surpassing the utilitarian. Collapsing cultural polarities. At the proximity of body- furniture- tool the fetish destabilised. Here the venerable, An object-little -a maid-of-all-works.