This song is too involved for a single post. So I'll just add comments from time to time that highlight interesting aspects to consider:
What does Red Rabbits mean?
From about 1930 to 1960 there was a pregnancy test called the "Rabbit Test." A woman's urine was injected into a live rabbit. After a few days, the rabbit was dissected and its ovaries were inspected. The presence of the pregnancy hormone hCG in the woman's urine would cause the rabbit's ovaries to swell. "The rabbit died" became a euphemism for a woman getting pregnant. Of course, the rabbit actually always died for the test!
With this in mind, I think we can confidently say "gunnysack" refers to either the woman's bladder or her uterus.
"Into the crucible to be rendered an emulsion" could be referring to the pregnancy test.
In this case, Mercer probably misunderstood the exact nature of the Rabbit Test because the rabbit ovaries were inspected through a microscope and not emulsified. On the other hand, he could be referring to the most common form of abortion called vacuum aspiration. Given the nature of the method, there is a sort of emulsification that happens.
With all the references to pregnancy and abortion, it's pretty safe to interpret "sprites" as sperm and "the necessary balloon lies a corpse on the floor" as a broken condom.
This song is too involved for a single post. So I'll just add comments from time to time that highlight interesting aspects to consider:
What does Red Rabbits mean?
From about 1930 to 1960 there was a pregnancy test called the "Rabbit Test." A woman's urine was injected into a live rabbit. After a few days, the rabbit was dissected and its ovaries were inspected. The presence of the pregnancy hormone hCG in the woman's urine would cause the rabbit's ovaries to swell. "The rabbit died" became a euphemism for a woman getting pregnant. Of course, the rabbit actually always died for the test!
With this in mind, I think we can confidently say "gunnysack" refers to either the woman's bladder or her uterus.
"Into the crucible to be rendered an emulsion" could be referring to the pregnancy test. In this case, Mercer probably misunderstood the exact nature of the Rabbit Test because the rabbit ovaries were inspected through a microscope and not emulsified. On the other hand, he could be referring to the most common form of abortion called vacuum aspiration. Given the nature of the method, there is a sort of emulsification that happens.
With all the references to pregnancy and abortion, it's pretty safe to interpret "sprites" as sperm and "the necessary balloon lies a corpse on the floor" as a broken condom.