Archive for the 31 days in May category

May cause drowsiness: day 8

Face. Face doesn’t remem­ber where she (he) comes from. Face has no idea what he (she) looks like. Face runs her (his) hands over the bumps and the curves, yet they sig­nify noth­ing to him (her). Face is sure that she (he) left him­self (her­self) around here some­where. Face tries push­ing and prod­ding her­self (himself) […]

May cause drowsiness: day 7

Fuck­face. Fuck­face can­not feel. Fuck­face can­not feel what you’re doing down there. Fuck­face can­not feel you inside her (him). Fuck­face remains impass­ive. Fuck­face is fists clenched, arms taut, mouth shut, legs apart. Fuck­face is eyes wide and up and straight ahead. Fuck­face looks bey­ond your body as it rises, falls, heaves and drops above him […]

May cause drowsiness: day 6

Apo­lo­gies if you’re read­ing this from out­side the shores of the United King­dom and con­sequently this unre­mark­able Thursday is much like any other unre­mark­able Thursday, but there won’t be any typ­ical entry here tonight because the whole coun­try is offi­cially closed for a gen­eral elec­tion. Fur­ther­more, if the res­ults bear out what the final round […]

Forty million (or so) to one

[Oth­er­wise known as ‘May cause drowsi­ness: day 5′, but some­how that didn’t seem like quite the right title for what I’m about to write. Reg­u­lar trans­mis­sions will resume tomor­row. Oh, and please note: the views stated here are my own and not neces­sar­ily rep­res­ent­at­ive of my employer. Or my fam­ily. Or my close friends. Or […]

May cause drowsiness: day 4

Sick­y­face. Sick­y­face is in pieces. Sick­y­face is every slide in and slide out strip of identikit, every sus­pect, every crim­inal. Do you recog­nise this man (woman), madam (sir)? Sick­y­face has ears all the bet­ter to hear you with (but no eyes, no nose, no mouth). Sick­y­face has eyes only for you (but no ears, no […]

May cause drowsiness: day 3

Kissy­face loves every­one, loves everything. Kissy­face loves, loves, loves you. Kissy­face will remem­ber you to her (his) par­ents. Kissy­face will remem­ber you to his (her) friends. Your friends too, if you want to be remembered by them, if you’re not already remembered by them (you’re not, trust Kissy­face). Kissy­face is all over you. Kissy­face says […]

May cause drowsiness: day 2

She watches nat­ural his­tory doc­u­ment­ar­ies every even­ing, mar­vel­ling at the col­our­ful mir­acle of birth, life, pro­cre­ation, killing and death — all of it brought into her living-room via stun­ning hire-purchased high-definition. She doesn’t find her­self par­tic­u­larly fazed or reviled by the viol­ence and blood­shed of the end­less hunt for food, nor by the matter-of-fact sexual […]

May cause drowsiness: day 1

Ring Apollo. Tell him I’ve sus­tained a broken fourth fin­ger on my right hand. This might not be the moment for fool­ish endeav­ours. This is cer­tainly not the moment to be typ­ing. Still. I blame an obsess­ive nature that was simply com­pelled to find a non-essential some­thing which I’d pre­vi­ously draf­ted and saved in a corner […]