A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing by Eimear McBride

Author:Eimear McBride [McBride, Eimear]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781566893787
Publisher: Coffee House Press

PART IV

EXTREME UNCTION

1

Jesus that. Stink of that. City when I got off the train. Get a lungful of that in you and see how you do, she says cigarette filter fraying brown on her tongue. Thoo pthoo. Looking knackered, alright? Not too bad. Come on with me. Thanks for. It’s a good month is it since I seen you last. Is there loads to tell me? Ah there is oh loads. And aren’t you mighty I say. Coming all this way. In. Not much missus. You are. Well fuck and I am.

Now I’d say, a good laugh’s what we need.

Take the skirt off that one says your man. Some man. Later in the night where I am lying. My feet up on top of his bar. We’re all laughing we are. Who. All of us here. Ah now lads my granddad’s just dead. Shall we have a period of mourning? Shall we have a period at all? She roars. We shall we shall. And we’ll drink these whiskeys down for him. A haon, a dó, a haon, dó trí down with it. Ah the neck the poor auld neck. Right in the troat she says. Don’t be splashing they say. Go on lads. Do then. Lock the door. We do. We let them for we’re having such a time. Sure don’t mind the Gardaí they say. They can’t see in. Switch them lights down. I’m dancing dancing twirl my head. On the bar in my slip shoes. Pool and cake of it. Puddles and fag ash stink of sweat. This place smells like shite. Round the I do the rounds on the bar. Kick off that glass now. Kick that one. Into the wall. Would you credit it? One of them says stop. In my burl. I cannot see. Hey stop that you fucking. Fucking mad thing. Them glasses have to be paid for and not by my dad. Not my dad either I shout I say Jesus Christ. Skid the corner wood and almost fall off cut my knees. Easy now. I’ve got you. Easy now there missus she laughs says. Come on the lot of you let’s go up the stairs.

In the dark we are climbing up where electric’s not on. Everyone’s feeling my leg makes me laugh out. Makes me laugh out more and she. Saying cut that quack. Sure we’ll be playing hide-and-seek. And look for me and I am gone. Backing tiptoe. Moving in the dark. Put out my hand but slip and. Go on land. Shhh quiet slither I must. In the dark hands and knees. Find the bath. It’s a warm spot there. Echo. Hands are warm.

Mouths kiss on me. Someone. Faces I kiss though they’re cold though they’re slimy full of tongues. Who. What’s that? They’ll get me will they up between the legs. Who’s there? What’s that? Shall we do in the quiet? Oh now. A mortal sin. You know. Go on empty mouths and tongues and hands and fingers pass me up.

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