Chapter 5
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Daybreak - 6am. The smell of faeces and cigarette butts filled the air, like fairy floss and corn dogs at the carnival of lost souls. Pounding headache, trundle beds squeaking with disrepair infused with the sound of anaemic Russian murmuring filled the halls, you know a shithole when you’re in one.240Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu62BfYIrjP
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A voice broke into English briefly in the adjoining room, heard in a soft but assertive tone.240Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz19EzjYfYu
“Make my fuckhole suffer you reticent piece of shit..”240Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7l3Kd9PMVW
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Frankie lay staring at the cracked ceiling pondering the worth of extracting meaning from the excrementitious goings on around her. Surely there was something of emotional value to be learned from the black mould infested rooming house she’d found herself crawling back to time and time again. Freaks always find their way home it seems..240Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgdGBiqOcs5
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She recalled a quote from poet Phillip Larkin on the worth of poetry.240Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbgr86SJ3yb
“A poem is like a slot machine, the reader puts the penny of his attention in the slot and pulls the handle and gets a feeling out.”240Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTFEj0XbmI2
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The quote wasn’t really applicable to her current situation, aside from the fact an apparently ‘redicent’ male suitor's cock was being pulled like a slot machine handle in the next room, ‘feelings’ spewing forth from it like a putrid poetry pistol.240Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLevW4zpRSA
There weren't many other meaningful parallels to draw.240Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe8Sb8w1ICX
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Frankie pulled a morphine syrette from her bag and jabbed it into her leg with a natural junkie fervour. Numb. So quickly numb. No more need to think. Russian voices and penile slot machine nonsense fading away. Eyes starting to slowly close, the smell of shit becoming somewhat more bearable. She let out a low energy laugh, more like a whimper, and passed out. An unconscious passenger on the train of life. Destination Pooville.
Frankie awoke after an hours worth of interrupted sleep leaning against a bird bath in Tuileries Garden, a lush green, ornate statue studded public park. Her stomach seared with the absence of food and abundance of semen, or glú as she had affectionately renamed it. 240Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTVCEeZ7NId
It was time to get back work, to jump back on that perpetual and ever replenishable putrid pogo stick and see the Franc’s fly.240Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf3CJmxMCsu
She splashed the fetid bird bath water trying against her vulva, in a feeble and desperate attempt to clean the hole that had helped put food on the table many a hungry night past.240Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYhqSTpXOQn
“The world never permits a good looking woman to starve.” She muttered under her breath, as if to instil herself with some skerrick of hope.240Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡESxbiL5sUn
The discoloured bird water rolled down her legs like a grey landslide of avian secretion, she felt cleansed.
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