Dumb Freisian Cows

The noises she made: bad counterfeit of Hollywood squealing from films mostly starring Michael Douglas where the women huff like espresso machines

Western society’s main trauma is its inability to appreciate that which it is has achieved. All our basic human needs are catered for. We are fed regularly, abundantly clothed and housed.

Waking up to find a rodent bludgeoned by a simple spring mechanism Alastair wondered if there was perhaps an easier way. He imagined his own skull, crushed beneath a lorry tyre,

The penny-drop choreography of a drunk at a hubcap, his self-image in the slanted chrome.

They will say I was having a laugh all the way to the end, dying alone in a green room, a book of my own poems in my lap.