Degenerate

He swears too much.

Fuck me fuck you fuck this fuck that.

He shouts unnecessarily.

He gets drunk and abuses the people he apparently loves.

He kicks and screams and spits out mean observations of people.

People he doesn’t know.

People who apparently love him.

He takes and doesn’t give but started taking his kids to the bookies when they were young to familiarize them with one of things he definitely does love.

Now they’re old enough to sign on they stand next to him every day egging on horses like Drop Dead Gorgeous in races like the 3.45 at Epsom.

Unbeknownst to them it was all part of his master plan to ‘egg on’ his gambling addiction.

The more of him there is, the better chance there is of him winning.

He takes their winnings and loses them.

Does he care?

In his words ‘Does he fuck.’

They’re young and stupid.

He’s old and wise.

He coughs and splutters and doesn’t cover his mouth.

He doesn’t brush his teeth so little remnants of the dinner he demands on the table at 5oclock every day spray like mushy bullets onto whoever has the misfortune of standing in front of him when he shouts.

His favourite thing to shout at people is ‘nob head.’

Even the cat and dog get called it.

He’s used the phrase so much that he expects people who know him to respond to it as if it actually was their name.

He also likes the words ‘cunt’ and ‘daft’.

Can you believe he has a wife?

Sometimes she can’t but she puts up with him.

He puts her down.

Down the road from his house is the pub he calls home.

Next door is the brothel he calls bed where quite often he falls asleep in his clothes.

He doesn’t care if he wears the same underwear for 3 days in a row.

He hasn’t put a dirty pair on so they’re still fresh in his eyes.

Although in other peoples noses they aren’t.

His nose resembles a chewed up turnip

Battered and mauled

All purple and throttled and beaten to a pulp

His eyes

Two holes

If you get close enough without hearing his favourite words you can see through the holes, into his skull and deep into his thoughtssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssshitshitshitshitshitshitshitshitshitshitshitshitshitshitshistshitshitshitshitshitshitshitshitshitshistshitshitshitshitshitshitshitshitshitshistshitshitshitshitshitshitshitshitshitshistshitshitshitshitshitshitshitshitshitshistshitshitshitshitshitshitshitshitshitshistshitshitshitshitshitshitshitshitshitshistshitshitshitshitshitshitshitshitshitshistshitshitshitshitshitshitshitshitshitshistshitshitshitshitshitshitshitshitshitshistshitshitshitshitshitshitshitshitshitshistshitshitshitshitshitshitshitshitshitshistshitshitshitshitshitshitshitshitshitshistshitshitshitshitshitshitshitshitshitshistshit