I quickly down a few pints so I've got something to offer - vodka shots
won't set your pleasures spurting - and watch the pump empty its yellow load into
my jar like some strange recycled golden nectar to wet the appetite.
A child's paddling pool takes centre stage and sets the mind a swimming. As in some
surreal fringe theatre, two regulars in heavy manual gear appear from the surrounding
darkness and step into the dim-lit pool. The plumper of the two lies flat on his back
and his full friend fumbles open a zip and spouts a warm bladderful over his pal's
check shirt with a muffled fizzing splosh like hot water hitting a tea bag.
I pinch myself. The tall man shakes out one final drop and then helps his paunchy mate
up who slips over again into the pool of piss with a dull wet thud. The toilet humour
of this splashy slap-stick circus makes me laugh aloud. Second stab and he's up
and pissing in his tall friend's boot, now off. Tall friend pulls said boot back
on for a few sloshy steps, removes it again and slurps out his fat pall's piss.
As the fat man readopts his horizontal obeisance for the duration, I resolve to piss
on someone here and now, before my time is out. I start to feel the urge but opt
for the toilet instead which I half expect to be empty - all things considered - but
which has in fact become a jolly little inner-sanctum side show. Everyone's pissing
on everyone, no room left for even the most discreet leakhits.
I return tensely to my pint and touch it gingerly to my lips, tasting for any external
influences in my absence. Shit! Some people I know: fancy meeting you! Fuck: ground open.
Then an older man who's been letching me throughout comes up and somewhat strangely asks
if my name is Alan. I tell him it is not and he goes on and on about how he likes fair
hair when blatantly all he wants to do is slash all over me. I tell him I'm a famous
writer and he scuttles off back into the shadows whence he came.
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