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the poor cunt’s life, and I’m doing the same. Then we go on to the cunts (masculine) who’ve fucked us over, and how they’ll get theirs. Bernie and I have a mutual dislike of a guy called Clayton who used to be a friend of sorts but who’s now burning every fucker down. Clayton’s always a good target for us if there’s a lull in the conversation. If adversaries like that didn’t exist, you’d need to invent them, to give life some drama, some structure, some meaning. — He grows sicker by the day, Bernie says, a strange pseudo-sincere concern in his voice, — sicker by the day, he repeats, tapping his head.
    — Aye . . . that Carmel, is he still riding her? I ask. Always wanted to give her one.
    — No, man, no, she fucked off to where she came from, Nottingham or some shit like thaa . . . he says in that drawl which lurches from Jamaica to north London, whistle-stopping at Brooklyn. Then he bares those choppers and says: — That’s you, Scotsman, you see a new girl around on the street, you want to know what she’s about, who her boyfriend is. Even when you have the nice wife and the child and the money. You can’t help yourself.
    — It’s just being public-spirited. I try to maintain an interest in the community, that’s all, I smile, looking next door where the lassies are sitting on the couch.
    — The community . . . Bernie laughs and repeats, — it is good to maintain interest in the community . . .
    And he’s back at the washing-up again. — Keep on rocking in the free world, I chortle, heading next door.
    As I head through, I note that Tanya’s scratching at her arms through her top, obviously going into smack withdrawal, and as if by some ghostly transmission my own eye starts to shiver. I fancy a fuck to sweat out some of the toxins, but I don’t like fucking junkies cause they don’t move. Fuck knows what that boy-bird Val’s on but I grab her arm and half drag her through to the toilet.
    — What ya doin? she asks, offering neither compliance nor resistance.
    — Gittin a blow job offay ye, I tell her, with a wink, and she looks at me with no fear, then just a little smile. I can tell that she wants to please me so much cause she’s that kind of lassie. The damaged kind, who always just wants to please but never, ever will. Her role in life’s theatre: a face to stop some fucked-up cunt’s fist.
    So in we go and I whip it out and the wood comes up. She’s onto her fuckin knees and I’m holding that greasy head to my crotch and she’s sucking and it’s like . . . nothing really. It’s awright, but I hate the way her beady eyes rise up to take stock of me, to ascertain whether or not I’m enjoying this, which seems a totally fucking ridiculous concept now. Most of all though, I wish I’d brought my beer through here with me.
    I look down on that grey skull, the perishing eyes flicking up at me and most of all those big teeth, stuck in gums which have receded back due tae drug ingestion, malnutrition and non-existent dental care. I feel like Bruce Campbell in some out-take of The Evil Dead 3, Army of Darkness , where he’s getting gammed by a Deadite. Bruce would just smash that brittle skull to powder, and I’ve got to get out before I’m tempted to do the same and before my softening dick is torn to shreds on that rank bed of rotting teeth.
    I hear the front door go and, to my excited horror, one of the voices is unmistakably Croxy’s, he’s back for another round. Possibly Breeny as well. I think about that beer and I can’t stand the thought of some cunt just casually picking it up and drinking it. It’s the idea that it would mean absolutely nothing to them as well, whereas to me, right now, it’s everything. If it’s who I think it is, my beer is fuckin well gone if I don’t make a move. I push this Val away and fire through, stuffing it in and zipping up as I go.
    It’s still there. The gear’s left me already and I’m crack-hungry again. I