With the Animals by Noelle Revaz

Author:Noelle Revaz
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
Published: 2012-05-24T00:00:00+00:00

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The thing is, these days there’s no Georges to be seen about the house no more. He’s off as soon as the job comes up against the dark and it’s no use fancying you can work on. Then Georges he lays down his shovel or his spade, or the big dung-fork, or he gives a slap on the cow’s rump if it’s after milking, or on the side of the tractor, and he says: “I think this day’s about done.”

To which I answer always: “Just one little stab more,” and I carry on a bit longer with the spade, or the shovel, or the tractor, or I milk two minutes more just to see when he’ll crack and ask for mercy: “Are we going for supper, to see what the youngsters is cooking?”

And for another thing, he’s stopped making our portion too. “It takes too much time,” he says. “It’s a waste,” is his excuse with respect to the time he spends filling saucepans for us, so after that the young ones, the ones that’s capable, they make the eggs, the rice pudding, and the stewed fruit, and Georges, as soon he’s done raking up his plate, with never a thought for the dishes or anything else, can say: “I’m off for a bit of a walk,” and there’s never hair nor hide of him about the house till the next day.

At first I thought maybe the bother was the TV, seeing it stays on all evening for the education value, and I asked Georges: “Is it the TV bothers you?”

“No way,” Georges he said, the TV’s no bother: he likes to watch the soaps and what’s on the channels. No, he just has a kind of need to stretch his legs in the evenings, for it catches him here, says Georges, pointing to his hips, and it sort of drives him to exercise them to keep his condition.

“Well if you’re not wore out from walking again evenings,” I say to let him know the weariness he’s piling on himself and that he shouldn’t complain if maybe a little extra effort is asked in the day, but then I let him go, for I don’t give a fig what he’s up to.

On TV after the news there’s movies, the kind Vulva’s wild about but that first you never want to watch but then you wait curious to know what’s coming next. Well I always say on TV you can see some good stuff, but there’s strange stuff on the channels too if you happen across them. Some sights disturb you, so you push the buttons fast, any old way, and the box makes the channel change automatic, but never so quick that your eye doesn’t pick up the pictures that unsettle and roil you all night in your dreams.

Me, them’s things I never let out external: it’s subjects should never be talked about nor ever told out open, and never let stir up the notion of what can go on

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