Mark <\/p>\n\n\n\n
You are <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I am Dottie <\/p>\n\n\n\n
You look quite sensible <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is short for Dorothy <\/p>\n\n\n\n
You learn something every day <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I am the tenth character <\/p>\n\n\n\n
There is no tenth character <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mark have you ever been anything else <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Other than an Open University lecturer <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I once studied frogs in Peru <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Why Peru <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Because there were not many in Stoke on Trent <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Have you always worked in these summer schools <\/p>\n\n\n\n
No<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I studied frogs in Peru <\/p>\n\n\n\n
What was your first summer job <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I worked in a paint shop in a factory <\/p>\n\n\n\n
What did they make <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Various weapons to kill innocent people <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Did you not feel guilty <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I hardly think that painting happy faces on the nuts and bolts <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Made any difference to the defenceless victims <\/p>\n\n\n\n
As the missile slammed into the their apartment block <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Indeed they might have found it amusing<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Before they were blown to pieces <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Did you make any friends in the factory <\/p>\n\n\n\n
No just model soldiers from the Third World War<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There have only been two world wars <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The first and the second one <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I wondered why I had difficulties <\/p>\n\n\n\n
When researching the uniforms <\/p>\n\n\n\n
To answer your question yes I did make a friend <\/p>\n\n\n\n
His name was Paul Smith <\/p>\n\n\n\n
He worked in the paint shop with me <\/p>\n\n\n\n
What was his job <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Working in the paint shop <\/p>\n\n\n\n
He also ordered the paint <\/p>\n\n\n\n
What colours were the missiles <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Grey grey grey and grey <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The colour scheme was a little tedious <\/p>\n\n\n\n
That must of been of a great concern <\/p>\n\n\n\n
To those on the receiving end of the attacks <\/p>\n\n\n\n
That is why I was the happy face painter <\/p>\n\n\n\n
What colours did you use <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Grey grey grey and grey<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tell me about Paul Smith <\/p>\n\n\n\n
He was considerably older than me <\/p>\n\n\n\n
And was a glutton <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Paul ate everything that was not nailed down<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He was your original fat cunt <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Although he was a nice chap <\/p>\n\n\n\n
He took me under his wing <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Was he a part time albatross <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Paul would have found it difficult to fly <\/p>\n\n\n\n
He also had a huge sexual appetite<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He would fuck anything on two legs <\/p>\n\n\n\n
And sometimes even four <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Quite why women found him attractive was beyond me <\/p>\n\n\n\n
He smelt of food and stale paint and tended to sweat <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I can imagine the dried up slags looking for one last fuck <\/p>\n\n\n\n
But he fucked the Jackson sisters (probably together) from Accounts <\/p>\n\n\n\n
And they were not exactly rough <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Do you keep in touch with Paul <\/p>\n\n\n\n
No <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Why <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Because he is dead <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Did his body give in <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yes and no <\/p>\n\n\n\n
There lies a sad story <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pray tell <\/p>\n\n\n\n
My name is Mark <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Paul was in the habit of fucking off whist he was supposed to be working <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Either to pop down to the local Indian when a new Alsatian was delivered <\/p>\n\n\n\n
He liked his curries and was not fussy about the meat as long as it was dead <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Or he was fucking the local nigger slags so that they could pay for their next fix<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So when he vanished nobody questioned it even the bosses<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was because they liked Paul so much <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Normally if he vanished he would return in a couple of hours <\/p>\n\n\n\n
But on the night of his passing he obviously did not return <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was supposed that he had gone home faking sickness <\/p>\n\n\n\n
So his absence was totally ignored <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was only when he did not report for his shift <\/p>\n\n\n\n
That we began to get worried and contacted Me Lai <\/p>\n\n\n\n
She thought he was sleeping it off somewhere <\/p>\n\n\n\n
We were both wrong as when Mr Bags our cleaner <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tried to enter the bogs in Building C he was unable to enter <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Which indicated that somebody had entered the building but had not left <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Building C was a secure area where the boffins when needed designed all kinds of new and deadly weapons <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It had a kitchen a TV room a gym and two bogs both with pink tissue paper<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Something was not right so the cops were contacted <\/p>\n\n\n\n
They found him in Cubicle Z which in theory did exist as it was a top secret shit house with a wanking facility <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Although the custard mags had long been stolen and flogged elsewhere<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Paul had been dead for nearly a day and Rigor mortis had set in<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He was also attracting flies who were no longer interested in the local curry houses <\/p>\n\n\n\n
He had died whilst having a massive shit <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was supposed to have been due<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To one of the Alsatians being off<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Or something he had picked up elsewhere <\/p>\n\n\n\n
How many years ago was this <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was the same year as Chernobyl <\/p>\n\n\n\n
What happened to Building C<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The same as Chernobyl <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was covered in low grade concrete <\/p>\n\n\n\n
And the whole operation was moved to Southall <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Where nobody would notice it or even cared<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Did you attend Paul’s funeral <\/p>\n\n\n\n
No I had returned college as I was training to be an Open University lecturer <\/p>\n\n\n\n
He was buried in a lead coffin <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Why <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Because they ran out of bubble wrap <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Did you keep in contact with Me Lai<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For a while yes <\/p>\n\n\n\n
But she later married a nonce from New Brighton <\/p>\n\n\n\n
And was last heard of doing ten years
End of Act Two <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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