is monsters. Tits out, wet-mouthed, back. Shouting and just to prove they exist.
at the bar with the usual mix Of decadent fabrics and lighting. Everybody here has got a second name. Blowing more breeze the wind at the weather vane.
Industry slimeballs, big-deals. The cool new band the retro feel, It's the party for their video. Becky in it. The director, Law, Head to toe in velour, Is holding about the science of image the sycophants giggle and grimace. Becky fidgets, herself, 'Must being so cynical, here is a human, Even these pitiful pop stars and idiots.' She tells herself to look - is hideous.
So while Marshall Law is wanking on his artwork She smiles at the guy opposite, eyes, dark shirt. He his eyebrows in the direction of Marshall. 'My Becky,' she says, yours?'
She was like nothing that seen before. Strong body, soft edges, something so raw In the of her iris. He his name, 'Harry'. And never in his had he felt so happy. got talking, Free bar. decorum He drank until she was so He out the party. The floor spun, he stared at her face and felt sure, Something was here.
He was nervous, His eyes doing circuits of the room. He drank as fast as they serve him, this dude comes over, Sticks out a hand, And Harry at her Like he's just found in quicksand. He gives this guy a wrap, shake hands cash passed between palms, No fuss. bash, yes, bosh. He at her guiltily, She waved it off, 'You a shotter then, I care.'
'Becky, all I wanted was a place of my own.' His eyes, and trusting, He's at her, desperate for something to click. He is up. This is it. 'A real classy place, the bit, a speakeasy, right? Chandeliers and That off of the glasses No hype, and no arseholes. Instead of rotting our out In old boozers We can be men, listening to music, Real music. with heart by real bands, Not just posers looking they're Giving to mic stands. And be in a waistcoat, dead grand. Place. Or, at least, the plan.'
She was listening, not listening. Kept distracted by the lights flickering. He looks like an outline needs filling in. He in close, starts whispering:
'The thing is, and weird, I felt so able, To like this to anybody, ever, Recently Becky, been really feeling the pressure. I can't you how good it is To get off my chest.'
holding tight to her glass. Good coke, fast. She his face as he talks. Little on her fingertips Expert. snort. Sucking on a cigarette, vaguely bored.
It's true if you it. The world is the But all how you see it. One flash of lightning ripping through the air Is another's passing glare, there. It's if you believe it. The is the world But all how you see it. One man's flash of ripping through the air Is another's passing glare, there.
'If I'm being honest, it is, like a trap, I trying to be flash I just to raise the cash for the dream. I hardly it myself Look, it ain't But once I set a task, Well, there ain't no back. And I am there, I am, nearly, anyway, The is, I kinda had to push all of my away. I can't have Knowing I'm up to I keep it very but the thing is I love to, for one day, You know, live like any guy. I have a girlfriend, you see 'Cause I don't to lie. It's safer all That I keep my head down. And, yeah, the is booming, Yeah, the business is booming. But my family I work in recruitment So, I get up every And I put a and suit on And I get on a train, I go up town. It's all users. I sell in the and not the boozers To, like, and these modern day Scrooges Who get secretaries to bring me coffee, so stupid. Meant to be hard times, right, a But these guys are more than ever, I reckon And I...
He's got eyes, Shame his issues, though. The party pushes on, her getting vicious, Show nothing, smiling.
She the eye of her mates, dancing by the bar in a state. Nod for me' understand, dance over, Put their arms around her - 'Becky, we're bored, go'. His mouth to a stop, He to lose his composure, She at him 'Yeah, was nice to know ya.'
No, not like that, leave. Please. make her go, we've just got started.
Their teeth are bare, their feet are Their at him like he's dirt, And now his is Damp with the of Finding and This girl. He feels with confusion, like What had he How had he talked? He watches them walk to the His roars.
In the back of the cab, the girls sit giggling The driver them smoke out of the window So shivering. They pass a bottle of back and forth Let it clash their teeth. The cab moves fast the streets. 'Who was guy you was with?' Becky shakes her softly, 'Him? I don't know, alright, But I could he was one of them "save me" types, And I couldn't be with that. Not tonight.'