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'Standing on the balcony, with his elbow leaning on the night, Riton waited.'

— Jean Genet, Funeral Rites Cutting Fragments of Forever... ...the Teacher's Whiskey dripped off the top lip as if Christ dangling off the wooden Cross, the quench near, but so far after the liquid then drizzled against the dirty wooden floors: footprints of previous hobos, casual psychosis against a backdrop of the Eastender's theme tune, the sounds of hard piano keys against the London rain drops, the oily remnants of memories pulsating to a drum-like beat... ...with the Whiskey now perfectly wasted to an array of belligerent cunts and fucks, emanating out of a mouth soon going into the night, legs and feet against ashen concrete, time on a precipice... jumping the Tube's barriers, the correct 7

assumption held that Fat Charlie wouldn't notice, too busy eating pieces of Kebab meat doused in Garlic sauce that he probably bought from the Turks outside the station, and then waiting up close to the mind the gap sign, still hearing the drum-like beat, and the flowers of the mind sitting subconsciously sighing in the gush of wind of the then oncoming train...

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...Leandro is sat as if de ja vu: the same clothes on, protruding stomach wafting in its tight expanse of space called a London Tube seat, stuffed in with his hands holding a bottle of beer quite tightly, eyes with only a flicker of light in them... the whites in them only slightly visible, instead more visible are the pupils soon peering downwards at his bottle, as I take a seat next to him... I can hear all the exfoliations of the creak of bones of an old man sat holding a wooden walking stick that is soon enlisted in the throes of antics only able to be deemed other... as it's only this that personifies much that occurs: that 8

pursuit towards always neat organisations of thoughts that would rather sit in dust, asunder in fire, drowning in the cold waters...

—I'd love sum Whiskey, said Leandro from the end of his nose, eyes still against beer bottle in hand... all neat maybe, nah maybe bits of ice too...

—You not get the flat sorted then? I asked with the reflection gazing at this other person also known as: Paib, Franco, K., and even Rubens in a few places more deep East, as Romford, where I'd got involved with a few Pyramid schemes gone wrong with a dude I only knew as Big Ron... he was a pathological lier (aint they all? con men), though deception mostly enjoys an audience, raison d'être: lies over meals in multiple cafes discussing money schemes that lead to a tidy bit of mess in the deep Eastern hemisphere of London...

—That flat down near Mare Street?

—Yeah that one?

—Nah, they probably give it to sum Indian fella or something, I'm still at the Hostel but they're trying to kick me out because of Mindy... ...I alleviate the desire to pursue the conversation over the voice mentioning our arrival to Holloway Road, mind the gap and all that... where else I have started to notice a man at the end of the carriage now standing in front of a blonde woman with a heaving rack that is sat reading the days newspaper... THE SAME AS YESTERDAY BUT JUST TODAY... the man is wearing one trainer so I'm pretty certain he's up for it, as they say, I'm certain he's about to give us an anecdote to take away, one befitting of the spirit of London of

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course, shattered bottles in the wind stepped on by yuppies feigning interest in something or another... this geezer looks wired but is soon giving us what seems to be the usual spiel, that on another day could elicit a different response...

—I'm trying to get maself a place to stay tonight, as this geezer... and he had started pointing at himself at this point, when mentioning this geezer (him), the one trainer bandit, as if we all needed help in ascertaining who he was, did he know who he was? Perhaps that was the root problem, identity...ring, ring, who is it? Marx on the phone, something about alienation and all that... but he continues...

—I know you don't care about this geezer! with more pointing, he's also getting louder, the decibels careening into the rather busying carriage that is heading towards Kings Cross with a vengeance... though it all seems rather ordinary however, in a way he ought to up his game, as the lady with the large rack is barely threatened at all Mister One Shoe, she's not even remotely worried mentally or physically... perhaps another collect call from Marx, maybe he's on the other end of the line with a few words of encouragement to jerk us into some form of being that isn't reading Newspaper utterly devoid of News...

—But I am a PERSON, and this is mine... and by now he has pulled out a nine inch Penis and is waving it like a gun, the lady reading the Newspaper has now re-adjusted her stance to one more panicked: the ruffles in his phallus could

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have equated to a feared feeling of what he could do with it, what it all could possibly mean? stood waving it with one shoe on, and a facial expression only to be deemed strained: arched eyebrows, TEETH and GUMS sifting the spectacle with a menace...

—Put that away!

—That's dangerous! another yelled from the other side of the carriage, though no one moved, just Mister One Shoe aka Penis Finagler... although I'd not felt he truly had dipped his feet into the water yet, not truly, as I'd seen much worse, I can assure you... the ordained Priesthood of obscure antics knows no bounds, it's merciless in its pursuit towards some sweet melancholy, some disturbed sensibility only governed by acts sat way over the edge... maybe this was sensed as he soon dropped his black plastic bag and ventured on with eyes jutting all over the carriage, devouring, kicking the old man's stick up into the air...

—I have a right to 'appiness, I have a right to 'appiness... and by now Mister One Shoe is sat with his bare naked bottom against the greasy floor that had torn pages of the day's Newspaper up against his crack, a tattoo that read: I AM LOST, with a perky pair of breasts underneath these words... sure, I thought Mister One Shoe, but where's the panache, where's the flowers of madness? as the Lady has by now arrested her fright and delved back into page five, perhaps News on Palestine and Israel, and is not even remotely uncomfortable anymore... though I think he knows this, as he looks around the carriage,

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even at the Old Man walking to pick up his walking stick...

—I am not 'appy! Mister One Shoe soon yells into the carriage with, two fingers twiddling inside his all too bare naked butthole... I'm not 'appy... and I think this does the trick, in the eyes of the lady as her face is taken over by a look of disgust, scrunched up nose, lips all sandwiched into the middle of her face, her hands covering her breasts...

—'ark at this chap... said Leandro with a nonchalant nod towards the happenings but not nearly much excitement, not nearly much frisson at all in his voice, probably as we'd seen much of this before, although it was in the realms of the stuff, the very expression of disillusionment though it needed more, I thought, as soon enough a corpulent black Man, clearly more offended than us, then lifted Mister One Shoe up and dropped him onto the mind the gap sign at Kings Cross as soon as the doors jutted open... the Lady is then back to reading the Newspaper, the Performance Art piece distilled into the past... the loud clatter of the closing doors... an Italian man starting to discuss opinions on Big Ben... ..the disappearing starts early......the inexhaustible shake down, the distance between all these bodies... so many bodies... moving about after getting on at Piccadilly Circus with the sounds of all that hope, so loud, so rancid, so fervent... there's something malicious about all this commerce, especially in the Whiskley-less

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hue of sobriety, some menacing underlay as if watching Sesame Street's Big Bird serial killing... a big fluffy bird now tail gating, moving through hot Californian nights burying Hamburgers, maybe in a bright Chevy too, driving along in between a Murder or two, which will seem latent to the rather strange appeal of less humans, less people speaking of surface life shit: a sweater being sold out, always the haunted pursuit of something brand new... bludgeoned death via small talk whilst hurtling towards Green Park... the second act tonight in Mister One Shoe's repertoire occurring someplace else... though I could eat something, I thought, as I all I had in that room, that dingy den, was a questionable ham, pickle and cheese Sandwich half left on the window sill, that wouldn't really facilitate much but a little longer on the bog, a late night jaunt into the vestige of the communal loo... and you accept this as part and parcel of the life we lead, as if Joe Pesci in those Gangster flicks talking to a fellow Gangster, of course, about our lives: stolen salami, the big we in the sky, little deaths, money... now there's a thought...

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Rumours of Old Gamblers Out of Touch Foils At 3am Treated Like Gold Pots Petty Criminals Known For Lock Picking, Selling Used Dildos Stories of Violence Proustian in Their Affect Affectations of Remorse Dim Light Bulbs Against Kidnapped Bodies Grandiose Sexual Fantasies Involving Diapers A Girl On Labernum Waiting, Wearing Mismatched Socks Junky Lips Emitting Words Akin To Poems Pickpockets Commencing Their Day A Destitute Pair Of Teeth Smirking After A Score Of B A Two Hour Conversation Of Public Toilets A Piss Stenched Bench Housing A Can Of Half Drunk Beer A Sticky Porno Magazine Discarded In A Soho Backstreet Residue Filled Old Spoons With More Stories Than Passing Commuters Combined A Lone Wiggly Tooth Treated Like A Diamond Ring A Scratchy Radio Transmission of A Pirate Radio Station Chump Change Repeatedly Yelled Outside Crack Den At Queensbridge Road

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on the contrast, easy on the breaks Isobel... I still had oily lips from the Burger I flummoxed down in zero point four seconds whilst I walked through busy West London Streets to the edge of Soho where Amirah had been staying for a while, or since she had decided on a boyfriend from Somerset... an Accontant called Bob or Rob, or he could even be a Robert, who really knows..? the supple breasts of memory clearly need a retouch...

I mumbled... however I'm somewhat sure I'm dead, just not sure how dead... there's levels, collisions that suggest, they do suggest, but there's honest doubt to whether waking hours are at all dissimilar to those had behind closed eyes... though you often weigh it up and try not to pull back the foreskin of reality... the pieces of skin on the precipice of dismantling so much, but sheltering from some harshness wanting to be avoided... say here with Bob, or Rob, it's rather difficult to accept that his little joy is more often than not on the tip of a strange dick for what will be a rain check, in this case, but sometimes as little as eighty, ninety, hundred and fifty if she see's the fella coming... INCOMING MUG at 2 O'Clock ignoring subtle clues of debauchedness: O I thought you knew it was (guess how much is in the wallet time)... anyway, we're all victims to our desires, our vices alluding us, and mostly prevailing... the Ballad of Bob is actually quite ordinary, but just more blatant, less agile, more sturdy like a piece of concrete writing... the lady you love disguises her love for all things oriented towards serial dick-taking as a need for money,

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and he, sometimes in the very next room, takes it, and just takes it, until... I supposed heading there a little more quickly before the rain fell totally from the black expanse of the sky... perhaps another call to Marx..? yep I hear you Karl, but what with all the patheticness it's a bit hard to gauge how your reasonable suggestions will really work... I hear you Karl, but the logistics are all off...

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ROWS OF TEETH ...the idea of Amirah was pretty inky by that time, the anticipation is more than the sum total but it's always disregarded, this idea, in the hue of desire... the veracity of want is more messy, as it lurks in crevices frequently adorning images in the mind... so it was not great timing to bump into Bum Chin Larry... he'd spent a few years at Bellmarsh so he had the minerals, the taste for a solid scuff, though he was in a jovial mood, smiling and asking how long it had been... it's always too soon, but you say too long, you always seem to automatically to say too long, it's been too long Ol' Hitler, Hitly, hasn't it, we need to keep in touch, perhaps Oven Bake... ...

'Money is a suicide note.' Martin Amis, Money ...and lo and behold Bum Chin Larry has these preordained money schemes, loadsa them, all sitting in neat rows next to the other Cellmates packed in like Sardines sleeping right next to where they shit and piss, puffing tobacco with 18

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cartoonish tokes... Bum Chin Larry I know I know we ought to gather loot but have you stopped to... and he stopped these words propelling into his wet dreams... Nah Franco (he knew me as Franco from a girl living in Greenwich), what we'll do is get rid of the Umbilical cords as quickly as we get 'em in, all we need is Harry (and it's always Harry isn't it, that modulated link between someone and some schema dripping in the anxiety of Prison Time, Newspaper cuttings of weird Criminals with this bonce on full display)... and Harry is up for letting us into the Hospital if we cut him in on it... he continued, quite persuasively I do have to admit: the tenderness of haphazard hand and arm gesticulations always promotes endorphins, enthusiasms that can't be easily denied... ...and so I'd soon enough agreed, via a Holier spudding (wet fist against wet fist), that we were doing it, as Bum Chin Larry commented after confirming time, place, small expenditures... ...ethics is all ropey in the reality of hard pockets, it's a little more elusive than those yuppy pricks, I thought, back on track towards Amirah's flat, but really thinking about Isobel... Isobel, Isobel, Isobel... though it's all buying and selling, by the time that can drink reaches your bottom lip it's pretty much an ornament of so many deceits that it's not at all absurd to think of Umbilical cords as just something Voodoo Ebgie from Clapton needs, and therefore has a right to have... sure sure we may call Marx again and ask about the ethical pursuit of work, and the allegiance to forms of justice, but that's all hearsay in the heart

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of our minds, although I do reckon this Utopia place, LucDocs, that Isobel seems to mention from time to time may be real, it may exist, it's just the flagrance of darkness is often all logical and hopefully just a few hours spent at Homerton Hospital, before retrieving a wad of hard currency from Voodoo Ebgie... the thought of the end before the beginning... Bum Chin Larry how you always create an allure around such residual fuzz... ...as I entered the dark entrance of Amirah's a quaint reverie arrived: one doused in butt sex; an erection and a gun is a strange attractor it can be said, it's swift in its pursuit to claim what it wants... the sounds of Peter Andre and East 17 murmured whilst I rang Amirah's doorbell... and visions of Kingsmead Courtney being cornered after, apparently selling a few grams of weed and cutting out Big Tyrone, who heard about this and appeared out of the clear blue sky from out of the hotboxing weed smoke naked with an erection and a gun... Big Tyrone you wouldn't..? you wouldn't lavish that on some geezer that just owes you a few hundred quid, no Tyrone, the fear emanates from a variety of places, not just the waving glock (where did he get that from, I thought sat in Hackney rather quiet)... but the underbelly is not such a knock-off occurrence of underbelly sometimes, it's the real underbelly where violent things happen over CD players playing Mysterious Girl... it was a bit too difficult to bandy around Kingsmead Courtney after this, what with all the lack of eye contact (me or him..?) and what is he to do..? call po po... Karl there's a

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call for you about alienation and dark thoughts being trapped into a Criminal system, can you take this..? .....dial tone... ...I'd started hum singing, I realised, when Amirah opened the door... ooh ooh woooh mysterious girl, I wanna get close to yoooou... ...I handed her the bags of weed, two benners, and hoped she'd go along with this idealistic IOU... though I would have preferred hard currency, perhaps to furnish a few more sordid fantasy's, usually involving Mother and Son... of which I'm certain Freud would have had a field day with; the Oedipus complex is all concrete, and unavoidable, though we mask this don't we... though before I can explain the position of the ol' wallet she introduces another man, not Bob, and more olive skinned toned (very her complexion) that is sat on the couch watching the idiot box as if I'm not even there... Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man...

—...this is Garner, and Amirah now comes across shy, playing with her collar bone and the strap of her violet bra that reminds me that otherwise she is quite naked, albeit the very see throughy lingerie, but it's all pastural still: Mother naked after a long bath soon toiling in the bedroom, until she mentions that Garner is her Brother...

—...actual blood brother?

—...well yeah, sure, he's just staying with me and Bob until he can get himself sorted out, but he's big and strong, starts Amirah whilst bending over and rubbing his right leg before fuzzying his gelled

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black hair... it seemed all sordid as we all are aint we? But I do like sordid a little more soft around the edges in this regards, as I was pretty overwhelmed by Amirah's casual declaration that she and Garner, can't help, and she repeated the words; can't help, especially slowly, even as a fellow misfit that I'd thought I'd known for years Amirah you're really at the edge here, you're really doing this thing called other... a few descriptions of their inabilities to stop themselves from feverishly fucking, mostly, she added before we got down to it, because their Dad was such a prick for failing to provide money that they assumed he had from God knows where... though it's difficult to judge inside a warm cunt, and so you wrestle with the idea, foreclose certain decisions to act, promise to baptize yourself with Whiskey at a later date... it was all so murky, I thought, as the jizz hit Amirah's top lip... philosophical jizz... and I hear Bob chatting to Garner about a re-run of Cheers... did he know too..? ...she was a little put out by not receiving money, hard notes, just as she bent to pick up a few tenners off the dresser drawer, TEETH exposed, and then soon tucked back into mouth, as I once lent her a grand, so she quickly accepted a round of play, but more than that was off bounds, she said with one eye on Garner sat on the couch still staring at the T.V.... quietly adding that she did like my dick... admiration can come in a myriad of forms, I thought on the Street full of puddles... the light scent of wetness protruding

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the air, the Neon lights yelling, the Soho Sex Shops Open Signs tucking into eyelids, the conversations had outside Bars masquerading something or another, the NIGHT...

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...it could possibly be that people smell you out, they can sense the dissonance, the lack of acceptance of the ordinary... the messy drape of a shirt or the eyes... the eyes are a dead giveaway: the squalor of a smirk resting inside a face with pupils dilated, yellowy white and perpetually gazing towards something else... on the look out for that next hit, that next occurrence that is supposed to render everything through that perspective, that kaleidoscope yet to be viewed... and then there's the dream-like meditations manifest in small ways, along with the obvious, but a quick two punch attack at a conversation is only enlivened when it meanders onto the subject of robbing a bank, though this is often just a front for a joke, though the idea has gravitas, pull... the ol' stick up game and getaway to Monaco is sometimes alluring, but then again the drug deals on rain drenched streets... the adlibs from angry girlfriend's of Drug Dealers outside betting shops... the cold war thoughts of a neighbour's activities... the gripping depths of a fight outside a Pub on Roman Road... the rustle of wind between hands dealing in a drug exchange on a dark street corner... the nestle of camaraderie only brought about by poverty, talk 25

of benefit money... the beauty of the decaying Mango seen a few days in a row in altered states of natural life next to a few magazines... the smell of swear words spoken from the back of the throat... doing things a little bit Irish; morning teas, late night coffees, orange juices... suckling at the teat of substance...

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measured by damage to alleviation-of-pain ratio... which is a strong ratio as ratios come; it delivers the vital statistics by way of physical evidence: hands, legs, feet, head, eyes, torso — mostly intact, so it's mostly all mental and in the soul I quickly reckon, if that's a thing to believe, though I actually have a thing for belief in the soul: it signifies another element within a person that I often feels comes out, seeps out of pores... ...there doesn't seem much else to go by, I thought just as we arrived to Mare Street where Amber had been speaking quite long windedly about a junky called Berger, or was that Beagrie... names are all so elusive in the drunk haze, especially feeling dry bits of blood against skin around neck up towards left ear lobe... and claret is just such a form fitting composition: it's decisive in its lyricism... I hope I got the better of 'em, I mumbled...

—...and so if we get the Ket from Eddie, we can also score a little Betty White too for only a few more readies, might even be able to get a couple a E thrown in, Eddie can't get rid of a big bag he got from Big Eared Sam, you know Big Eared Sam, right?

—...reckon I've seen him about probably... I said with the onus on regaining consciousness, clear thought, but generally failing: could I even make out the haphazard gaze of what's in front of these eyes..? these eyes soaked in Jack, swelling in days gone by... it's all so murky, deficient of an ability to gain... a Priest walks by... ...the bus scoops us into its bosom, the

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floating red specter appears and takes us: pulling us along noises of builders heading towards their sites, conversations wanting: this, that, the other but definitely wanting something... this hyperexternalized desire is just so squalid...

— ...what's that you say..? asked Amber to a silence, bringing me back to where we are, I thought, her hands rolling a ciggy with chipped peach nails, acoustic eyes... a hangover is always acoustic; some bad Guitar band droning on about that Girlfriend that got diddled by another fella, or worse them being unwantedly diddled by another fella, a Priest, as it's always a shaggy haired geezer with a pointless degree or HND (have no degree) or another and just too much time on his hands... it's always this and if it isn't exactly this it's refractions of the same thing... though I guess it's all sociology: society's development of species in relation to this Govermental headlock they have us in... quite tight and severe... and I could have spoken this or thought this, but what is the difference at six am in the morning where the darkness is still flagrant, and for some it's much worse, drunkards staggar along the pavements with surprised looks on their faces: Drunk Dave (there's always a Drunk Dave) why are you so surprised..? my guy it's all cut and dry: pour a little Whiskey out next time for the Death of God... I'm gonna have to pick this up, it's an important one, Nietzsche is on the line... ...Amber is still bandied around the idea of gathering drugs, quietly sizing up the

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situation, eyes peering when I'm not looking, which, unbeknown to her, I can see in the reflection in the Bus's window, her bouncy long breasts in the Purple number, the words PENG and SICKO written in blurry purple cursive on her naked right wrist in the same purview as all these commuters heading somewhere... someplace, smelling of death... midnight black briefcases held upright, women applying their make-up on the go, a pair of delinquents walking fast through the high street... and they're clear to see: curved brim Nike caps, tracksuits, old Reeboks... the life, the exile of homogeneity, the cool air of escape... very much facilitated by violence: warm threats spoken over bacon, eggs and beans... IS IS OR CAN IT BE, THAT IS THE QUESTION..?

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— ...what'd you say, Daddy what..?

—...don't mind me Amber, just riffing like those Jazz bands, you know..?

— ...a little Ket would go nice with that riff, don't you think..? her eyes look all chewy and wet, childish in their innocence but still capable of using that knife, I don't deny that, I thought, she has a general air of sketchiness that needs to be put slightly under surveillance, though flippancy is fine, I then accept, mostly because there is really nothing to be gained here... well not in the material sense, as opposed to the Soul... she might be peering at that... the... naked... soul... decaying... like the body? a shop window with a display of blue as if the sky behind glass... ...a Jew prowls the edge of the curb... ...a lone purple plastic bag blows in the wind...

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the sweet funk of getting high, lost in the languid web... ...the whole shabang really... and Amber had just finished explaining something I'd not really heard for the thoughts on Isobel and our first meet: pissing into the porcelain sink, I'm soon eye funking a woman, Isobel, Persian looking: dark hair as midnight, dark olive sun kissed skin with lips opening and closing forming only perceptible words as: ...ain't that a lovely Dick... drunk responses laden with amber lights, I hadn't run a red as of yet, because she was responding whilst entering into the stool and latching the door, the drum-beat sound of the lock like that in my head, dah dum... dah dum...

I'd continued to speak through the stool's door, seeing underneath to her feet in polished black hi heels, and the slight edge of knickers around her sweet ankles...

—...I'd reckon it's quite nice to not have to piss in silence...

—...I wouldn't want that, I think I said, though memories distort: they move about all tectonic, especially stood outside that stool holding a half vanquished pint of Beer... but she soon unlatched the lock and waddled out of the stool pulling down her bright orange dress over her bare thonged bottom... washing her hands in the sink, but being very careful not to touch anything, I noticed that much, a noted possible hygeine freak, and then I opened the door for her, whilst we spoke about a Transgendered woman that had been drunk and raving about discrimination,

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Isobel was on her side, of course, but before we could continue talking squarely about all of this, she vanished into the dark consortium of people...

I awoke on a lamppost on Kingsland Road outside a Kebab Shop with only remnants of what could have occurred, Sherlock instigations, though what can it be..? the taste of it all..? Isobel how you entered the stool of this life, and dunked into the waters...

—...are you listening..? asked Amber with an inquisitive prodding of this body's left arm... this body that came to be... though I wasn't listening at all... I was in deep thought of how it was so strange how Isobel then just popped up at a random squat just off Tottenham, thank fuckin' God for Morly on that one, I remember thinking, perhaps a long walk to this squalid assortment of rooms, as if in Journey to The End of the Night, wouldn't be so wasted after all... as she remembered who I was right off... the geezer from that toilet I spoke to once... she had spent a few years bothering about graduating from Cambridge, but came to a realisation that it didn't really matter to her, didn't matter at all, and soon arrived to London, more particularly the London squatter scene, after a few months in India, reading Ginsberg's Indian Journals, walking through Varanasi, avoiding leering Indian men, circumventing ideas adorned with tragedy... she mentioned wanting to write Poetry quite early into this conversation at the squat surrounded by Chomsky-lite's, Plath's without the plateau of talent, but Poetically explained that our very being's are our Poems...

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our very lives actual pieces of Performance Artistry, that she soon explained had been fueled by a woman called Sabrano Candela who had arrived to a squat near Uxbridge detailing five years spent in the outer regions of Brazil performing a piece where she would, every morning, go into the busy streets on all fours, sometimes naked, sometimes barely clothed, barking like a dog in order to remind of our neglected Animal Spirit... Isobel was wearing baggy clothes, as if to hide her goodies, her sweetness... the neck is always naked and so so telling; it's all graceful, I noted, thin and soft skinned... ...it's soon our stop, where we stumble off into the rising sun, that is too bright, too hope filling, for Amber to mention that she was going into a passing off-licence to retrieve something, stood outside I made no fuss at all: a packet of chews, sanity, a sandwich, it's all the same really, commerce... but I was soon confronted with Amber running out of the off-licence, closely followed by an Indian shop-keeper swearing: ...you peoples are the scum of society, you troublemakers you... O Indian shop-keeper are you not correct, I thought, jogging alongside Amber, but where's the appreciation, where's the galore of idealistic realisations of our services..? what would you speak about without the faded glamour of a junky stealing a pack of chewing gums, a bottle of Teacher's Whiskey and a can drink..? ...we soon reach the bottom steps of this abode that castigates any sort of concrete sanity:

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sounds of Toni Braxton on repeat, and Salem, O Salem when will you just stop your bellyaching!

And it woke me up in a stir that did little for Amber, snoring naked on the other side of the pillow like old buddies... so I didn't wake her, and I got myself together, as best I could, picked up the stolen bottle of Teacher's Whiskey, that had a quench still within it, and headed out into the ghastly afternoon light... where Bum Chin Larry had been waiting for ages, he said, less jovially than the night before, before he mentioned that he had forgotten something at his flat, and that we'd need to go and get this in order to sort out our Umbilical plan... a baby following along towards the Tower Block where he lived with Lucinda, and her seventeen year old sister Maranda... apparently Maranda annoyed him no end, and he spent as much time away from the flat as he possibly could, hence the impromptu meet up in Soho the previous night... he explained all this with the conclusion that everything would be fine if we could get the Umbis (he had started to refer to the sacred Umbilical Cords as just Umbis)... another birth, another death... said Bum Chin Larry with a slight gristle in his voice that spoke of an agitation, I suggested inside this cranium, and one I assumed had been brought about by something that happened after we had finished up speaking in Soho, and he had got into something he didn't want to initially mention when I prodded around, curious... ...you didn't get home early last night

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thought, way more lucidly with descriptions, even diagrams if they could manage... cock lengths, positional plays, gold digging turned virtuous... there were sheets of white paper with bits of squiggles strewn across the coffee table along with a light brown Teddybear that had the words Maranda stitched into the embroidery in red lettering... ...Bum Chin Larry opened the drawn curtains, upsetting the cozy darkness cultivated within the room, before exiting the living room into a bedroom to soon arrive back to the doorway, where I stood, and coaxed me towards the door... Lucinda yells that she would cook tea around seven and he replied that he'd be back around eight before slamming closed the door... he couldn't contain his irritations: for the food Lucinda would cook, mainly: she can't put anything decent on can she..? he asked rhetorically gesticulating... all she wants to do is talk with this bravava, this act she puts up... and it seemed noble for Bum Chin Larry to be complaining about food, what with all the skint thing, which is quite an issue, I thought walking along the gray skied street's hearing Bum Chin Larry complain of Lucinda and Maranda...o Maranda really got it in the neck walking back on the way towards Homerton Hospital... ...we moved through the Hospital where sick people were stacked like Lemons: bitter against the afternoon light, the bright Hospital glare complaining of: flu, gout, broken limbs, stupidity on ladders, accidents handling genitals in

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showers, wise tells lived out: perhaps it's not such a great idea to swing your dick at a Rottweiler whilst drunk, I said, overhearing a man say something to this affect... a girl holding her pussy with both hands sat bogled eyed wincing whilst a man (assumed as her Father) spoke about being more careful on that bike next time... ol' accidental virginity taken on those pesky bikes... ...Bum Chin Larry moved swiftly, we signed in to visit a guy Harry had told him to, called Francois Leve... where even Bum Chin Larry had a few jokes for the secretary; something about being scared of Hospitals and Doctors, which she replied to by insinuating that it was definitely weird working in a Hospital... all these sick people, all the time, she sighed... Marx is that you..? is that you Karl..? anyway, we walked purposeful, which was fortunate being that I knew little of what we were really doing: the logistics sorta well yea, I thought, but not as lucidly as I'd want to... a rigamarole; I'm in the deep recesses of darkness though physically the bright obese Hospital light is switched on, as we had tucked into a room just off a stairwell marked Staff... he hands a Nurse's uniform over, all light bogey green and starts peeling off... with no underwear it's quite the sight, penis dangling into the green trousers... what's with the no underwear dude..? that's collusion, conspiracy, the Government has us thinking we need underwear... and by now I'm upset I even asked, as he's going on along this absurd rant that would be suitable in the direction of climate change, immigration, Hospital funding...

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but underwear is Bum Chin Larry's bag isn't it..? ...we soon leave this room, and head up a flight of stairs... Harry is waiting for us outside a door with black material over the windows... he's pacing so I know it's him... he describes the room where the discarded Umbilical Cords are stored in forensic detail, and we quickly gather what needs to be done... the room is quite away down a hall beyond the blackened windowed doors, and has an assortment of problems attached to gaining entrance, mostly by way of Maureen, a Nurse Harry nearly starts spitting about in explanation... she's always in someone's face about this and about that, she's going on about anything, mostly because her fella got off with a younger model, a lass from Essex apparently... Bum Chin Larry interrupted: ...Harry we need to sort this out... ...soon enough we're down the hallway, Harry's gone off to act like he's doing his job properly; handing over the wrong medicines, vegetarian meals with beef in them, Halal meals with pork inside... it's all the same really, especially in a damn Hospital: the place of forced acceptance that we're merely skin, bones, bodies... ...a crying baby is being carried out of a room by two Nurses, a rotund black woman with a sweet face that is smiling at this goey naked baby, and a skinny blonde lady that looks emaciated with cheek bones up next to her ears, large puddles as cheeks... the room Harry spoke of is bright, we stupidly don't take notice of much, and quickly find the loot, the Cords are all straddled in a Silver bin marked: Hospital Waste next to a box

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of gloves... Bum Chin Larry pulls out a black bag and dives in before I do likewise... we fill two black bags with the Umbis and start to wonder about filling a third... should we, both of us suggest in a hesitant manner; arms against hips, then brought towards face, as if for a wan... I decide that we should head off, and if Voodoo Egbie needs more we'll see if we can make another trip... Bum Chin Larry is more ravenous and dives back in to fill both bags to the brim... their heaving with the stuff now as we move suspiciously through the hallway, with the aim, of course, to allude suspicion, but the cats out the bag really... we look the way we are... sketchy fucks with bags of loot... and we make it down the flight of stairs, but we're then overhearing shouting from an Arab sounding voice: STOP, STOP THEM, THEY GOT STUFF... it sounded like Salem had escaped Fernanda's grasps and was now the security man too, like a low budget Vaudeville... ...and so we leg it, quickly getting out of the Hospital where a few guards are chasing us... Bum Chin Larry running bowlegged holding this black bag of Umbilical Cords sweating, and me right next to him thinking about all that Prison time I want to avoid... an elderly lady wearing a dark grey jacket stands to the edge of the curb staring at all the antics as we run past... and it's a sight to see: two men, one bowlegged, running haphazardly through Hackney Streets now being chased by an Arab security guard and two male Nurses... we drop a few Umbilical Cords; they hit the ground

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louder than I would imagine such things would, they scatter across the street outside a Secondary School with a few children stood around with amused smiles... one of the male nurses, the corpulent one, stopped before reaching the children, and the Arab guard stopped right at the gate of the School; huffing and puffing with his two hands on each knee, bent over, the last guard has a bit more bite to him: he looks like he's doing this for justice... all this injustices in the world is wrapped up in two geezers running off with Umbilical Cords... though arriving to the tip of the Cemetery he stopped and starts yelling swear words and shaking his white fist at us... ...Bum Chin Larry is on the moon, he's pacing at the edge of the park, as I sat on a bench, watching him act as if we're the Krays... settling into the warm funk of gain: o it's so gainey, and juicy, I do admit, but have some perspective Bum Chin Larry won't you..? spare a thought for actual ambition... though we gather up our loot and make our way back to Bum Chin Larry's... shooting the shit about what we'd do with the hard cash...

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remotely strategic... which can be important; a thought towards gaining a footing is always vital in violence, though it's sort of like Ginsberg's first thought best thought, but instead it's first punch best punch... or more simply who dares wins really... as Bum Chin Larry would be Oscar ridden at this point, smacking an unplugged iron against one of the naked geezer's head's... the other lad I held in a headlock had wriggled out of it and run out the front door butt naked... it was one for the books this one: Bum Chin Larry, the Umbilical Cords, the iron, the wincing naked fella still with condom on, and Maranda yelling: YOU'VE GOT NO RIGHT... well sis, I think you're way off there, even in destitution Bum Chin Larry's benefits pay for this roof that you choose to adorn with your sordid activitae... I'VE GOT RIGHTS... Maranda I may have to call Karl here... yep, I'm on the line... so this version of alienation has been filed and quickly rejected as a complete and utter nonsense... I had a hunch Karl... I had a hunch... ...the commotion soon filet's into another naked soul running into the labyrinthine design that is the tower block... Ballard would be so proud... ...Bum Chin Larry, bar a bloody nose, is revved up and enthused, but as angry as can be imagined, swearing and close to the edge of relinquishing a hand onto Maranda, the drumbeat is all heavy over Maranda's yelling, now stood in the doorway still butt naked, strangely only noticed at this point, and complaining of being old enough to know what she should do in life... Bum

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Chin Larry then demands she get out; telling her to leave the flat, before following her into a bedroom and deciding that if she went out it'd probably mean she just continued getting DP'ed in one of the lad's flat's or worse, on the stairs yells Bum Chin Larry... he pushes her into the bedroom and locks the door from the outside... she, on the inside, screaming and yelling... it would seem the cue to leave but where's the fun in that..? of course you ought to act as if you're put out, a little Sartre-esque as if a character in Nausea, Roquentin: kind of perturbed with a hard boiled sweet in the mouth, but beyond that you've got to stick around these times, where angels denounce saints, and the taint of existence spreads its legs... ...Bum Chin Larry soon sat on the sofa, kicking the Teddybear condom jizzom against the floor, and I'm already sat on the chair against the balcony window, ready to delve into the waters: I should leave, I said firmly and comfortably sat on the chair... though to illicit the idea that all was calm now would be a complete fallacy, an invention in a sense... as Maranda is still yelling, and Bum Chin Larry now has an ever more drizzly bloody nose, the claret is pouring down his face on to his Bum Chin accentuating his face, which on another body would be full of tears, but not Bum Chin Larry, he's all metal, I thought... ...we soon start chatting about getting the loot to Voodoo Egbie and he assures me that he'll sort it before walking out of the living room to gather a few Stella's... Maranda is still screaming

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about undertaking even more conniving female deeds things now: ... of not being at all sorry for setting up the aforementioned DP, declaring that she'd fuck a friend of Bum Chin Larry's called Dockie The Plug, and calling him a Pig... I thought Bum Chin Larry handled the situation with aplomb, fatally puzzled it was really a simple non-decision, I confide to him before I head back to Manor House, the den, the assortment of melancholy... a complete non-decision in the thick of East London living...

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—...a girl called Isobel came round but I told her where to get off...

—...you what..? ...though by now Amber has her hands tucked behind her breasts, and an expression on her face I could only describe as guilty innocence... muted lips clasped and eyes at the edge of her nose, looking away... I'm pretty sure she's aware she is out of line, but she has decided to act as if I couldn't surely know this... you can't be certain about an overreaction; you've got to pinpoint its exegesis, its depths... though you've got to be quick or it'll come off weak and over diluted; a mild Curry ordered Hot... a cumless shag... a reluctant orgasm...

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veneer of flowery antics lies the true nature, or the essence of what it is this soul within is getting at... of course Reverend Nietzsche wrote a lot about this; this notion of man being secretly lured and urged onward by our savage nature, or desire for cruelty and our superstitious fear of the savage beast... it seemed fitting to draw closer towards the juicy portion that erupts inside and slightly frightens... ...I started throwing things around, anything to hand really, Iron up against the door to a loud thud, her bag against the wall and then menaced around her sat on the bed, before she stood up and started at apologizing: saying that she didn't mean it, and so on and so forth whilst taking off the Jeans and then her knickers and inviting anything I could think of to happen to her... which is all murky waters: a bad porn film with low budget actors going at it for the sake of what..? where are we going Amber? and more in the Gauguin sort of way he professed in that famous painting: where are we going..? ... and it was too difficult to deflect all the lurid suggestions: ...I kinda don't mind if you wanna piss on me... o or you could even... started Amber before I just capitulated and gave in: falling into the trap, the very much orchestrated woven web... that was practically entrapment really, entrapment soon feigning resistance within the warm pussy walls, as it is difficult to be angry in the thick of spread thighs... I'm sure Oscar has an aphroism for this... though translated to a woman... ol' Wilde was, of course, a secret huge fan of the

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cock, cock as muse... and of the cock, Amber is soon working hard at it, really collecting her paycheck if it were paid-for-play: concentrating to ride-on with a consternation in her facial expression over pleas of: I'm gonna be a good girl from now on... O Isobel, what did she say..?

The Preamble Of Occasion ...it was difficult to bump into Fernanda in the hallway, what with all the rape and torture, but the loo is communal, so it will occur, and she spoke first, fortunately: I know all the rapey thing is... you know..? I really didn't know much, so it seemed fitting to ask, seemed fitting to know something just in case the boydem came around and started asking questions, we'd all need an alibi, a communal story we can dip into if they start to ask difficult questions under the gaze of anything being said being able to be used against us in a court of law and all that... no alibis are about as political as I got...

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—...really, I said...

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—...yeh, maybe because I wear (her mispronunciations are rather cute, albeit the rape and torturing she could be quite the catch, I thought) the dress, I wear dress this day and he follow but I walk around the back, you know the Turkish Kebab here... (and I knew all too well that Turkish Kebab shop, and so I nodded) well I was around there going to see Claudia, you know..? that Italian girl that went Crazy...

—...o that Claudia, I said as I remembered a few manic episodes had about a month or two before...

—...I was walking there (and she repeated this three times, so I started to question the validity, as repetition often appears when kids are in the thick of telling fibs; it's the first to commence in tall tales) ...he came up behind, and it's so quick, he's big with this big dick that is already what you say...

—...erect, I say to help her out... erect...

—...yes big erect, and he doesn't even take off this (she pulls at her pristine white t-shirt) ... but pushes me up against the wall (the wall with the Kebab meat comes to mind) and he is really strong and you know he...

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—...and he was really fucking me you know, the big inside, and this surprised me, because so fast you know..? (and I assumed she, referring to his erect dick, couldn't believe someone could get it up so quickly and so conveniently just as she was in the alley heading to Claudia's — some of these stories of this variety, unbeknown to many, and told of by an abuse care worker a few years before, culminate in the physical attempt but a dismal flaccid dick...)

—...he fucked the shit out of me man, really blasted me, quick time and ran off...

—...and so what happened next...

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—...audience..? it's just my bro...

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Jerry is at the corner of the screen then announcing the arrival of another guest... O Ronda you needa to show this fella what's right... I say, before Tundae shakes his head and mentions that things will definitely get worse... it's not looking good for this Ronda at all, not at all, said Tundae as Amber spoke at the doorway explaining what I only hear later: that she is staying at some squat just opened down near Bethnal Green... with her heading off I soon sat beside Tundae to continue watching as it all went completely mad... Jerry is walking off as if he's not the instigator of it all... and Tundae hip with all the I told you so's is full of it... you're right Tundae, I should have known Ronda would get it in the neck... someone always does: I'm sure Aesop has a fable for this...

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with dodgy benefits form disabling the purchase of shower gel or soap... Fernanda, at times, would leave shower gel around, but she quickly cool to that, and all those organic rather sweet smelling gels and products were soon kept where Salem still lay, cyclically yelling, still going at it... ...and Isobel's conversation of LucDocs was interrupted... she had seized up but didn't much move, she sat against the bed with her eyes a little wider... the dim light escorting the feeling of destitution up a few knots... especially so when Amber started to probe and prod: asking, quite directly, if we'd been at it, if I'd given a solid round... I said no, but wasn't sure why I had to do this, why I had dislodge from what I wanted, or thought I needed: Isobel hair looked just washed and dried and she had a slight smell of weed too... green is such a juicy smell on her, I thought... it all seemed too much, and I wanted to break the fourth wall and put a stop to this masquerade... this culmination of emotions, and bodies all with too much prerogative: Edgy Eddie was upset too, and he had started to egg Amber on, —...and he owes after that night too, I aint forgotten, mos def... Edgy Eddie is pacing near the microwave now and producing a recoil or even a reverie of how I might have put him at an even edgier edge... I couldn't ascertain how this came about, I thought, but it looked quite conclusive in the room... and Amber is looking like a Francis Bacon painting come to life: disfigured features twirling into the intense flavours of anger... I ventured around the idea of doing something, but

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what exactly? perplexed I thought I was stood watching on, as if I weren't me at all, as if the skin and bones that reflect the person I am, that seemed more a reflection in the eyes of others then a sure shot thing, a thing able to be concretely touched and handled... I want to go into my mind, but it's a bit cloudy in here, unkempt for welcomings: unwashed salad, easy on the feta, heavy on the Whiskeys... ...and Amber seems totally erupt in descent; a female Francis Bacon Pope screaming into the dimly-lit room... it's a very inventive thing, anger: it's able to unnerve the usual furore of what is expected into new realms, new passages of play... inanimate objects spring to life: irons, cups, plates... and it offers new altars to pray to, new forms of composing actions... often they're incongruent to things that should occur, these actions, but they definitely implore in ways so spontaneous... as by now Amber and Isobel are wrestling on the edge of the bed... it's hard to jump into action, at this point, as I could only think of suggesting baby oil: the erotics of violence can be neatly tasty... but with a few strands of Isobel's gorgeous hair thrown against a half empty of cup of Ribena, I'd decided it wasn't going to help the whole situation with Isobel to allow this to happen... though Amber did, I had to accept, look strangely passionate at this point... all the TEETH and EYES... plus Edgy Eddie too...

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was scrawled right up against the juicy letters in red writing that was quite arresting... the author has a recipe for sure, I'd call Nietzsche but I'm sure he would agree on it as an aphrorism... I moved through towards the door and knocked a series of times with a bit of loudness, though not too much: I weren't too sure I wanted to rely on violence in this situation... mostly because it's all proportions violence, it's a case of having to distill things down sometimes: what is there to gain? which is not the best way to go about a potential violent situation, I knew, stood outside Bum Chin Larry's, but I applied reason and just thought it best to go with this as a way first... but with no answer I didn't really know what else to do...

Edgie Eddie had told me that the Bum Chin had looked awfully plush the last time he saw him; noting a new sovereign ring and a fresh fade... so I was saw Voodoo Egbie had come good... but why cut out your buddy? is that not dismantling all we are? is that not the thief's code? the ol' steal and share is really all it is... otherwise we become one of them: those big wigs in those big shiny cars that think they've got it sussed when in reality you're round there apartments in Canary Wharf or the new Stratford giving their missus a good roughing up, a good handling that she refrains to mention to ol' slick back hair... ...I knocked a few more times... ...dun... ...dun... ...dun.. ...dun..

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—...so you're just gonna betray me like that..?

—...c'mon, I'd not think it's best to look at things like that, do you..? by now it was too obviously my play: I had to pick up the rook or the pawn and place it down as clearly I was being played, and so underestimated... I had settled on a hammer, that I had in my hoodie front pocket, and reached inside for it... Bum Chin Larry is quick, he's no one's mug, and he lurches, but misses as I swerve out the way... I knock one against the back of his knees, play fair and try and floor him, I thought,

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—...well I do, I stuttered whilst breathing all heavy and that metaly taste of breath is simmering around: like running a mile... though I think it could go on, the whole violence thing, it settles into Bum Chin Larry standing up and walking back into the flat to then hand me a wad of cash... the readies look all messed up and crumpled when I take them... it seemed all cut and dry: eye for an eye and all that, but it wasn't so bad, a few bruises; a definite black eye, but at least I had something to show for it... Bum Chin Larry mentions that Voodoo Egbie might need some livers, but I can't chance it, so I shrug and walk off back down the lift... WHERE WOULD WE BE WITHOUT PUSSY? looking at the red word's scribed like Solomon's...

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