The Urban Book of the Dead

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them.”
    Judith looked sad, there was just one tear in her eye, all she would allow, she winked and peered at me through it like a broken monocle, magnifying what she desired and intimating hers, she continued, “I liked you, I liked you a lot. But you liked me more; you chased after me like your chasing after her now. Any way you paid for trying too hard. He didn’t send you to Hell, he took away your ability to regenerate and staked you in a town square for all to see, it was crows that time around, not pigeons; and they were like shadows that cut holes in all the good light, everything they covered lost its content and goodness, if they passed over a kind faced girl with mercy it would fill her with black hate as it passed, and they swirled and swirled, the people jeered as they pecked you to death, soon emptied of your eyes you did not have to see them anymore, and when they ate your ears no more did you have to hear them, that was the only mercy shown, it was accidental as well.”
    Not exactly cheered up I put on the bravest mask in my collected thoughts and said looking at jay “I’m off to Hell Jay. We will meet at the back of the club at 12.15 am; me, you, and Judith. We will climb the fire escape and pick the lock and invade the head quarters. The minions of Hell will invade from the front and attack the night club people; who should all be on fire by then; a nice little pincer movement. Both of you take some of the hallucinogenic powder I made, snort it or inject it; or bomb it in some wrapped up rizla; it doesn’t matter.” My mind paused as I was about to set off “Here!” I gave them the ashtray, took a bit out and just bunged it up my nose, “achoo”; I sneezed on Judith’s face; Judith wiped her face with her hand unconcerned and turned away. I felt like we were all high on adrenalin, about to take on the most audacious act in human history.
    Judith dislodged a bit of snot from her lip and said “Do you know how you’re going to kill him? Only you can you know.”
    I nodded my head my eyes intent “Yes I know and I know. I’m relying on the dual nature of some other person; their autonomous action which I anticipate will decide the outcome one way or the other.”
    My concentration was low with my mind filled with thoughts, I needed a boost to get to Hell, I said excuse me and went to the bathroom. I pissed on the floor, pissed it all away and the puddle ate its way to Hell, I pissed a big hole, “Ha-ha” the pleasurable pressure pushed me up by my dick, two feet, as it bent upwards, I held on tighter as it squirmed, warm yellow piss splashing upwards in a fountain, so used to keeping my light body from floating was I, it surprised me, I let myself fall down the hole, my arms waving, I heard Jay say “what’s the commotion?” as I drifted off.
    I landed hard on the wooden jetty, sprawled with my hands on the deck and the cool breath of the other place knocked out of me so I gasped the poisonous fire of this one. Coming towards me on the lead sea was the boat, shadowed against the bright light; it was crammed full of figures, low on the sea and threatening to capsize or let in the hot liquid. A cloud of yellow overtook it and when it was removed the boat looked empty, then slowly figures began to appear again.
    The hand that played with the play doe of real men rebuilt its toys automatically, according to the rules of unconsciousness, the rules of dreams, and unconcerned as the sleepy head of some cannibalising giant snoring on feathers and fantasising murderously over the indelible.
    As the boat rowed closer I realised it was the rule of these creatures, my brave men which is what they were, to reject the human form given by God for those of their own imagination, and to conjoin like the ultimate pack of animals, or; what I had seen in human riots when a crowd does indeed become a single and very different animal than the sum of its parts. I saw men who had formed their joints together to

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