This Is Memorial Device

by David Keenan

  autumn, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  avant-garde composer, Swedish, 1

  average book, 1

  avowal, an, 1

  awe, jaw-dropping, 1

  awful tranny, 1

  Ayler, Albert, 1

  Bachs, The, 1

  Back to nowhere, 1

  backwards, illiterate, repressed motherfucking viper pit (in the west of Scotland), 1

  bacteria, 1

  badges, 1

  Baillieston Road, Shettleston, Glasgow, 1

  baked potato place in Airdrie, 1

  ballerinas, overweight, 1

  balls, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

  balls, freezing them off, 1

  balm for the wounded, 1

  bandana, wearing of in order to combat baldness, 1

  Bangs, Lester, 1, 2, 3

  Bangs, Lester (going on the advice of), 1

  Bangs, Lester (secret shrine to), 1

  bank heist, 1

  barber’s shop, Clarkston, 1

  bare light bulb, single, 1

  Barlinnie Prison, Glasgow, 1, 2

  Barrel Vaults, The, Airdrie, 1

  Barrett, Syd, 1

  Barrowland Ballroom, Glasgow, 1

  baseball boots, 1

  baseball cap, ill-advised, 1

  baseball cap, repellent, 1

  basements, unlit, 1

  bass, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13

  battleaxe, wife as, 1

  Beasts, the, 1

  beat literature, 1

  beats, primitive, 1

  beautiful young starsailor, 1

  bed, unmade, 1

  Bedknobs and Broomsticks, 1

  Bedouin, 1

  bedroom, messy, 1

  bedsit(s), solitary, 1

  belch (that stinks of cigarettes), 1

  Belfast, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  bell, ringing out at a funeral, 1

  bell, rusty, 1

  Bells, The, 1

  Bellshill, 1

  benefit gig, 1

  ‘Bengal Lancer’, 1

  Benny’s chip shop, Clarkston, Airdrie, 1

  Berlin, 1

  beyond understanding, 1

  Bible, the, 1

  Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, France, 1

  bicycles, abandoned, 1

  Big Brother and the Holding Company, 1

  Bigfoot, 1

  biker jacket, three times too small (at least), 1

  birds, flying towards their death in the sun, 1

  birds, rising up like the first morning through the waters, 1

  birth canal, trauma of, 1

  birthmark, 1

  biscuits, soggy, 1

  bitch, vacuous, 1, 2

  bitches, cynical, 1

  black sand, 1, 2

  Blackened Rod, The, 1

  Blackpool, 1

  blah, blah, blah …, 1

  blockhead, presence of, 1

  blonde, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  blood, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18

  blood, real versus fake (controversy), 1

  blood, speaking, 1

  bloodstains, maybe, 1

  blow job, 1, 2

  ‘Blowin’ in the Wind’, 1

  Blue Cheer, 1

  blue skies, pale, 1

  blue velvet couch, filthy, 1

  body workings (extreme), 1

  bogeyman of Airdrie, the, 1

  bogus, completely, 1

  bohemia, anticipation of arrival there, 1

  bollocks, 1, 2

  bollocks hanging carefree (see also: no underwear, aesthetics of explained), 1

  bomb shelter, 1

  bookmarks, 1

  books, as living things, 1

  books, life damaged by, 1, 2

  books, thrown in a skip, 1

  booze, 1, 2, 3

  ‘Borderline’, 1

  boredom, give me a fucking break why don’t you, 1

  Borges, Jorge Luis, 1

  Botanic Gardens, Glasgow, The, 1, 2

  bottom of the ocean, the, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

  boulangerie, 1

  Boulevard de Sébastopol, Paris, France, 1

  Boulevard de Strasbourg, Paris, France, 1

  bouncer(s), 1, 2, 3, 4

  Bowery, Leigh, 1, 2

  boxing match, 1

  bozos, two, 1

  bra strap, 1

  brae (next to the River Calder), 1

  brain, in a jar, 1

  brain, petitioning parts of, 1

  brain death, 1

  brainwashing, ripe for, 1

  brambles, 1

  Braxton, Anthony, 1

  breakfast bar, top off at the, 1

  breast(s) (see also: tit(s)), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

  breasts, pushed up, 1

  Breton, André, 1

  British psych, 1, 2

  brother, identical twin, 1

  Brötzmann, Peter, 1

  Bruce’s, Edinburgh, 1

  Bruce’s, Glasgow, 1

  Buckfast, 1

  Buckley, Tim, 1, 2

  Budapest (in the spring), 1

  Buddhism, 1

  Buddhist, 1

  bugger this, 1

  Bukowski, Charles, 1

  Bulgakov, Mikhail, 1

  Bulgarian, 1

  bullshit, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

  Bullshit, Bullshit von fucking, 1

  bullshit, man, 1

  bum-dungeon, King’s Cross, London, 1

  bungalow(s), 1, 2, 3, 4

  bungalows, secret (in the shadow of tall hedges), 1

  bunnet, 1

  Bunting, Basil, 1

  Burgin, Diana, 1

  burn, secret, 1

  Burned Earwig, The, 1

  Burntisland, 1

  Burroughs, William, 1, 2

  bus, late-night (George Square, Glasgow), 1, 2

  Butler, Octavia, 1

  buttocks, firmest ever grasped, 1

  Buzzcocks, 1

  Byrds, The, 1

  C (in woodwork), 1

  cadavers, puffy, 1

  cadavers, strange, 1

  cafes and bars (that all the musicians liked to hang out in), 1

  Cage, John, 1

  Cairnhill, Airdrie, 1

  Calais, France, 1

  Calder, The (river), 1, 2

  Calderbank, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Calderbank, hotbed for mods (back in the day), 1

  Calderbank Gala Day, 1, 2

  Caldercruix, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  California Good Guys, 1, 2

  Cambridge, 1

  camp (in the sand dunes), 1

  Camus, Albert, 1

  Can, 1

  can of beer, bitten through in a rage, 1

  can of beer, crumpled, 1

  capacitors, 1

  Capocci Man, The, 1, 2

  caravan, filthy, 1

  caravans, damp, 1

  Carbeth huts, the, 1

  Carlisle, 1

  Carlisle Road, Airdrie, 1, 2

  Cars, The (!), 1

  Casino Royale, 1

  cassettes, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

  castle, Gothic, 1

  castle, medieval, 1

  cat burglar, 1

  Catholic(s), 1, 2, 3

  Catholics, damn them, 1

  CB Radio, 1, 2, 3

  CCTV, 1

  celebrities, minor (on the local underground scene), 1, 2

  Céline, Louis-Ferdinand, 1

  Cendrars, Blaise, 1, 2

  Centaurus (constellation), 1

  ‘Chance Meeting’, 1

  chanters, heartbreaking, 1

  charges (positive and negative), 1

  charity work (fake), 1

  Charlotte Street, London, 1

  Charred Twig, The, 1

  chatterina, 1

  Cheap Thrills, 1

  cheesegrater, thing with a, 1

  Chekhov, Anton, 1

  chemistry, 1, 2, 3

  Cherry, Don, 1

  chib merchant, 1
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  child-killer, 1

  childhood memorial, haunted place of, 1

  children, with pale wooden faces, 1

  children’s book, 1

  Chinese hermit, talking like a, 1

  Chinese restaurant, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Chinese restaurant joke, attempted, 1

  Chinese takeaway, 1

  chip shop(s), 1, 2

  Chocolate Watchband, The, 1, 2, 3

  choking (on a truck driver’s rancid cock) (all the way from Carlisle to Hamilton), 1

  Christ, Jesus, 1

  Christ, Jesus fucking, 1

  Christian faith, 1

  Christmas work do 1983, the, 1

  Christopherson, Peter, 1

  chug (see also: masturbation; tossed off; wank off), 1

  cigarette, flagrant, 1

  cigarette, stubbed out in your mum’s flowerpot, 1

  cigarette burn, 1, 2

  circuit board(s), 1, 2

  Circuit Rider, 1

  City Lights (bookshop and publisher), 1

  city of the pyramids, the, 1

  Clarkston, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

  Clarkston, crumbling mansions in, 1

  Clarkston Parish Church, 1

  classic newsprint threat, 1

  clichés, 1, 2

  Clichy, Paris, France, 1

  clothes, filthy, 1, 2

  clouds, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

  clowns, two, 1

  Clyde, The (river), 1

  cooperative grocer’s (in the East End of Glasgow), 1

  Coast, The, 1

  Coatbridge, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18

  Coatbridge College, 1, 2, 3

  Coatbridge College Athletics, 1

  Coatdyke, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Coatdyke, cement factory in, 1

  Coatdyke cenotaph, 1, 2

  Cochran, Eddie, 1

  cock (see also: penis; dick), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11

  cock, immaculate, 1

  cock, up the ass, 1

  cock and ball torture, 1

  cock ring, heart used as, 1

  cocksucking, possible regret over/lack of, 1

  coffin, cardboard, 1

  Coleman, Ornette, 1

  collectors, most obsessive, 1

  Colliertree Road, Airdrie, 1

  Coltrane, John, 1, 2, 3

  comics, 1, 2, 3

  communal shower room, 1

  communists, 1

  Como, Perry, 1, 2

  Comotherapy, 1

  complete contentment, 1, 2

  completely in his power, 1

  computer protocols, 1

  conception, 1, 2

  Condition of the Non-Form, 1

  condom(s), 1, 2

  confused girls, sex with, 1

  contact mics, 1, 2

  continuity, manufacturing of, 1

  coq au vin, 1

  Corpseless Head, The, 1

  cosmic suffering, 1

  cosmonauts, 1

  cottages, dreamy, 1

  council house, made up to look like a classy hotel room, 1

  council house, semi-detached, 1

  County Armagh, Ireland, 1, 2, 3

  court orders, 1

  Covent Garden, London, 1

  Craigneuk, Airdrie, 1, 2

  Crane, Hart, 1

  Creature from the Black Lagoon, The, 1

  Creedence Clearwater Revival, 1

  creeps, 1, 2

  Crete, 1

  crime report, 1

  Crowley, Aleister, 1

  Crown Court, 1

  crude samplers, 1

  Crumb, Robert, 1

  crutch, writing as, 1

  Crux (constellation), 1

  cum, 1, 2

  cum, silver, 1

  Cumbernauld Road, Glasgow, 1

  Cunningham, Merce, 1

  cunt(s), 1, 2, 3

  Cure, The, 1

  cycling into a hedge when you’re half-cut, 1

  Czechoslovakia, 1

  dad, died, 1, 2, 3

  dad, smell, 1

  daft song by a bunch of hippies, 1

  Daily Record, the, 1

  Dallas, 1

  Daltrey, Roger, 1

  damaged boy, some young, 1

  Damned, The, 1

  daring, pointlessly, 1

  dark places, laughing at them, 1

  darling girl (with circus tattoos), 1

  darts player, resemblance to, 1

  Davis, Miles, 1, 2

  dawn chorus, the, 1, 2, 3

  Day of the Frozen Vampires, The, 1, 2

  Day of the Silver Sun, The, 1

  Days Have Gone By, 1

  daytime radio presenter, name like a, 1

  daytime rodent persona, 1

  Dead Sea, the, 1

  death, thinking about it constantly, 1

  death in life, 1, 2, 3

  December, 1, 2

  declarations of instability and poetic madness, 1

  deep freeze in the garage (packed to the gills with fish), 1

  deep shit, 1

  Defender, The, 1

  deliberately vague comments, 1

  deliverance, 1

  denims, drainpipe (see also: jeans, skintight), 1

  derring-do, some kind of, 1

  despair, total weeping, 1

  destitute, 1

  destroyed by madness, 1

  detention centre, 1

  devil of Airdrie, the, 1

  Devo, 1

  Dharma Bums, The, 1

  Diary of a Madman, 1

  dick(s) (see also: cock; penis), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

  dick, big, 1

  dick, lubricated, 1

  Dick, Philip K., 1

  dick, working in a bank, 1

  Dictaphone, as a memorial device, 1

  digestives, in tea, 1

  dildo, plastic, 1

  diorama, 1

  Dire Straits, 1

  ‘Dirt’, 1

  disabused, 1, 2

  disco music (awful), 1

  distant lights, 1

  disused railway bridge, 1

  divine retribution, extremely petty form of, 1

  DJ, 1, 2

  DNA, 1, 2

  Do you remember?, 1

  dolls (see also: mannequins; dummies), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  dolmen, 1

  dominatrix(es), 1, 2

  doppelgängers, 1

  Doray, Philippe, 1

  Dors, Diana, 1

  dosshouse, 1

  Dostoevsky, Fyodor, 1, 2, 3

  dotty old dears, 1

  double-mindedness (of dreams), 1

  doughnut, 1

  dove with a leaf between its beak (still missing), 1

  Dover, 1

  Downie’s Department Store, Baillieston Road, Shettleston, 1

  Dr Martens (boots), 1

  drag, 1

  drama teacher, 1

  dream, as a computation, 1

  dream bride, 1, 2

  dream lover, 1

  dream role, 1

  dream within a dream, 1

  dreaming the entire thing, 1

  dreams, as the language of the organs, 1

  dreams of hotels, of left luggage, 1

  dressed to kill, 1, 2

  drinkers, heaviest, 1

  driveways, red-chipped, 1

  drone, 1, 2, 3, 4

  drug use, indiscriminate, 1

  drum machines, primitive, 1

  drum stool, still vacant, 1

  drums, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  drunk, again, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16

  drunk, pretending to be, 1

  drunk and disorderly, repeated, 1

  dry ice, 1

  duck or emu = emu, 1

  dull lefties, 1

  Dumbarton Road, Partick, Glasgow, 1

  dummies (see also: mannequins; dolls), 1

  Dunbeth Public Park, Coatdyke, 1

  dungeons, interc
onnecting, 1

  Dungheap of the Living Flesh, 1

  Dunoon, 1

  dying alone, 1

  Dylan, Bob, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Dylan, Bob (female), 1

  Dylan, Bob, ’ 1, 2

  Earnest, 1

  East End (of Glasgow), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Easter Everywhere, 1

  ‘Easter Island’, 1

  Easter Moffat Golf Club, Plains, 1, 2

  eccentric characters, escaped from some kind of novel, 1

  eccentricity, 1

  ectoplasm, 1

  Edinburgh, 1, 2, 3, 4

  eggs, tortured, 1

  eggs and salsa, possibility of, 1

  Egyptology, 1

  eighteen (inches of shared dildo), 1

  ejaculate, 1, 2, 3

  electromagnetic radiation, 1

  electronics, home-made, 1

  elegant kitten heels, 1

  eleven (o’clock in the morning drinking a can), 1

  Éluard, Paul, 1

  empty (like a tomb), 1

  empty space, 1, 2

  encounters, dedication to, 1

  end credits on a romance, 1

  end of the world, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  endings, invented, 1, 2

  endless loop, 1

  endless sexy moan, 1

  entry-level shit, 1, 2

  Erotica, holidaying in, 1

  eternity, 1, 2

  Etruscan tomb, 1

  eunuch, 1

  Europe, 1, 2, 3

  Everly Brothers, The, 1

  everything is fixed, 1

  Ex+ (condition), 1, 2

  ex-girlfriend, 1, 2

  exclamation marks, 1

  excuse, lame, 1

  exhibit an uncommon degree of zeal, 1

  exhibition, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  existence, inexplicably mundane, 1

  experimental, 1, 2

  exploitation, accusations of, 1

  expression, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  eye infirmary, the (Glasgow), 1

  eye make-up, dramatic, 1

  eye make-up, like an Egyptian goddess, 1

  eye make-up, smeared, 1

  eye make-up, turquoise, 1

  eyebrow, weird thing with, 1

  Eyeless in Gaza, 1

  eyeless sockets, 1

  eyelids, bulbous, 1

  eyepatch, 1

  eyes, big Bambi, 1

  eyes, big blue, 1

  eyes, dark, 1, 2, 3, 4

  eyes, green, 1

  eyes, like a tightrope walker over a deep dark lake, 1

  eyes, like blank diamonds, 1

  eyes, owl-like, staring out of the past, 1

  eyes, red, 1

  eyes, scientific, 1

  eyes, silent, 1

  eyes, sparkling, 1

  eyes, with cataracts like strawberries, 1

  facts, very few, 1

  Fahey, John, 1, 2

  failures, greatest, fairyland, 1

  falling in love in slow motion, 1

  family (what do I know about), 1

  fantasy, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

  fanzine, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

  ‘Fate is Only Once’, 1

  father(s), drunk but loving, 1

  favourite record of all time (cards on the table), 1

  feather boas (as lava), 1, 2

  feelings (carefree) (post-alcohol), 1