This Is Memorial Device

by David Keenan

  feelings (cheap), 1

  feelings (shop-soiled), 1

  feet, big white, 1

  feet, enormous, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  feet, like flippers, 1

  Feldman, Morton, 1

  feline women, sex with (kidneys talking), 1

  fellow hobbyists, 1, 2

  Fenric Wolves, The, 1

  feral child, 1

  Ferris wheel, 1

  fifteen (minutes), 1

  fifty (per cent), 1

  fifty-nine, 1

  figure of the writer, the, 1

  final recording, the, 1

  Finlay, Ian Hamilton, 1

  Finsbury Park, London, 1

  Fire Engines, The, 1

  fireflies (in Airdrie), 1

  First Hegemony of the Pussying Father, 1

  first morning on earth, resemblance to, 1, 2

  first summer after high school, the, 1

  fish hooks, 1

  fish out of water, 1

  fishers of men, 1

  five (-foot-high black hole), 1

  five (foot one), 1

  five (hours), 1

  five (pounds), 1, 2

  Five Keys, The, 1

  flashbacks, 1

  flat(s), abandoned, 1

  flat(s), grim, 1

  flat(s), modern, 1, 2

  ‘Flood Water Blues’, 1

  Fluxus, 1

  flyers, wad of, 1

  Flying V (guitar), 1

  foetus, 1

  fog, 1, 2, 3, 4

  foibles, zero, 1

  footnote (now), 1

  footprints, enormous, 1

  ‘For the Good Times’, 1

  forehead (regal), 1

  forever, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11

  formal European romance, 1

  Forrest Street, Airdrie, 1, 2, 3, 4

  forty-five (degrees), 1, 2

  forty-five (minutes), 1, 2

  foul bread and beer (presiding demons of the east), 1

  fountain in Kelvingrove Park (fucked for years), 1

  fourteen (years old), 1, 2

  Frankenstein, 1

  freakbeat, 1

  freaks, 1, 2

  freckly complexion, 1

  free jazz, 1, 2, 3

  free jazz (German), 1

  free vegetables, 1

  French new wave movies, 1

  fried breakfast (stale), 1

  Fripp & Eno, 1

  frog, leaping mechanical, 1

  frog face, 1

  frog torturers, 1

  from out of no history, 1

  fuck knows, 1

  fuck off, you geek, 1

  fuck off, you loser, 1

  Fucked in no way, 1

  fucking Atlas come to smother the world, 1

  fucking barbarians, 1

  fucking black box, 1

  fucking cannibals, 1

  fucking choirboys, 1

  fucking concrete house with four windows, 1

  fucking decapitate me, man, 1

  fucking Dion and the Belmonts, 1

  fucking Holocaust memorial, 1

  fucking inflatable nightmare, 1

  fucking instant hamburgers, 1

  fucking job like a jail sentence, 1

  fucking National Lampoon, 1

  fucking skint, 1

  fucking slugs, 1

  fucking social experiment, 1

  fucking Space Invader, 1

  fucking think about it, 1

  fucking top hat, 1

  fucking Watts Towers, 1

  fucking white leather trousers, 1

  Fun House, 1, 2

  funeral pace, 1

  furnishings, drab, 1

  Futura, 1

  future, chosen representative of, 1

  gah, gah, gah …, 1

  Gala Day, 1, 2

  Gallic tongue, 1

  game of moments, 1

  Gamma Productions, 1

  Gang of Four, 1

  gangsters (see also: toughs; hoods), 1

  gaps in continuity, 1

  garden, back, 1, 2, 3, 4

  garden, rock, 1

  gardening, 1, 2, 3

  gardens, overgrown, 1

  Gare de Lyon, Paris, France, 1

  Gare du Nord, Paris, France, 1

  garrotte, 1

  Gartlea, Airdrie, 1, 2, 3

  Gartlea Gallery of Geomancy and Geographic Speculation (G.G.G.G.S.), 1

  garlic, romantic and sophisticated, 1

  Gartness, Airdrie, 1, 2

  gay magazine, 1

  gay speculation, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

  gays, subterranean, 1

  Gaza Strip, the, 1

  GBH, 1

  genitals = beasts of burden with heavy eyes, 1

  genitals = circus animals, 1

  genitals = elephants, 1

  genius, as accidental, 1

  genius, as plain fucking wrong, 1

  genocidal conflict (phantom), 1

  George Square, Glasgow, 1, 2, 3

  German history, 1

  ghost(s), come back to the scene of their own murder, 1

  ghost galleon, 1

  ghost movie, 1

  ghost story, 1, 2

  ghoul, would-be, 1

  Gibson, Mel, 1

  giggling (over a sandwich), 1

  gin, 1

  Ginsberg, Allen, 1, 2, 3

  girlfriend, bitchy, 1

  girls, walking past, 1

  giro, 1

  Giuffre, Jimmy, 1

  Give Us Sorrow/Give Us Rope, 1

  glacier water (as blue as), 1

  Glasgow, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32

  Glasgow Green, 1, 2

  Glasgow Technical College, 1

  Glasgow University, 1

  Glasgow University Union, 1

  glass bottle (up the ass), 1

  glutinous, 1

  go-go dress (short black-and-white), 1

  ‘God Moves On the Water’, 1

  godforsaken hellhole, 1

  gods, the inscrutable way of, 1

  Gogol, Nikolai, 1, 2

  ‘Goin’ Down to the River’, 1

  going nowhere, 1

  Golden Dawn, 1

  Gor (books), 1

  Gorgon (in a snooker club), 1

  Gothic fantasies, 1

  grace, definition of, 1

  grace, suspended, 1

  Grahamshill Avenue, Airdrie, 1, 2

  Grahamshill Street, Airdrie, 1

  Granada, Spain, 1

  Grant, Kenneth, 1

  grass (see also: marijuana), 1, 2

  grass bags, 1

  Grateful Dead, The, 1

  gratitude, importance of, 1

  gravedigger, 1

  gravestone, as a memorial device, 1

  graveyard, at the bottom of the sea, 1, 2

  gravitas, 1

  gravity, 1, 2, 3

  great gift, the, 1

  Great Society, The, 1

  Greek baby, the (with the big eyes), 1

  Greek myth, some kind of, 1

  Greengairs, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

  Griffin, Glasgow, The, 1

  groover, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  guardian angel (holy), 1

  guilt, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  guitar, played with a bow, 1

  guitar, slide, 1, 2, 3

  guitar chord, most beautiful of all, the, 1

  guitar chord, one, 1, 2

  Gulag Archipelago, The, 1

  Gully, The, 1

  Gun Club, The, 1

  gunrunners, 1

  guy, creepy-looking, 1

  gymnastic displays, 1

  gypsy, 1, 2, 3, 4

  hacksaw (between the legs) (really gently), 1

  hagiographers, 1

  hair, artificial, 1

  hair, blue, 1, 2, 3

  hair, classic bowl cuts, 1

  hair, dark, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  hair, ejaculated in
(like), 1

  hair, greasy, 1, 2, 3, 4

  hair, greasy curly, 1

  hair, like a dark silent river, 1

  hair, on fire, 1, 2

  hair, silver, 1, 2

  hair, synthetic, long, black, 1

  half Japanese, 1

  half Swedish, 1

  Halhul, Palestine, 1

  halo, bendy, 1

  hamburger patties, 1

  Hamilton services, 1

  Hamlet, 1

  hammock, 1, 2

  hand, like a flatfish from the bottom of the ocean, 1

  handbag(s), tiny, 1, 2

  hands, enormous, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  hands, like shovels, 1

  hands, like tennis rackets, 1

  hands, lily-white, made for slow strangulation, 1

  hands, tied, 1

  hands, tiny, 1

  hangman knots, 1

  hangover (daytime), 1, 2

  Hansel & Gretel, 1

  Happy Sad, 1

  hard cases, 1

  ‘Harm That Foot Down’, 1

  Harvest, 1

  hat, tight woolly, 1

  hateful wives, 1

  Hatfield and The North, 1

  headcase(s), in Airdrie, in Scotland, 1

  heart, as hotel, 1

  heart, as left luggage, 1

  heart, broken, 1

  heart, failure, 1

  heart, faithful, 1

  heart, stalked, weighed, examined by night, 1

  heart of the wood, the, 1

  heartbeat, 1, 2, 3

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

  Heaven, London (nightclub), 1

  heavy metal, 1

  Hebron, Palestine, 1, 2

  heels, black strappy, 1

  heels, delicate buckle on, wounds inflicted by, 1

  heels, held in hand, 1

  heels, smacked in the head with, 1

  heels, stiletto, 1

  hegemony, banging on about, 1

  helter-skelter, 1

  Hercules (constellation), 1

  hermeticists, the, 1

  hermits in the desert, like, 1

  Hesse, Hermann fucking, 1

  Hickory Wind, 1

  hieroglyphics, 1

  ‘High Water Everywhere’, 1

  Hindu, 1

  hip flask, 1

  hippies, 1, 2, 3

  Hirsch, Shelley, 1

  hissing of the earth, the, 1

  historical gambits, 1

  historical shit, 1

  history buff, 1

  history of drug use (implications of), 1

  Hitchcock, Alfred, 1, 2

  Hitler, Adolf, 1

  Holehills, Airdrie, 1, 2

  Holehills, Airdrie, philosophy of, 1

  Hollywood Hills, the, 1

  Holytown, 1

  homosexual(s), strange, reclusive, 1

  hoods (see also: toughs; gangsters), 1, 2

  Hooker, D. R., 1

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

  hot mess, 1

  house breaking, 1

  how the fuck could I possibly go on, 1

  Howletnest Road, Airdrie, 1

  huge gulf of silence, 1

  hung over, 1, 2

  hunger striker, looks like a, 1

  hypnotise the horizon, attempt to, 1

  I am a sick man. I am a spiteful man. I am an unpleasant man. I think my liver is diseased., 1

  I Love New York, 1

  I-N-D-I-V-I-D-U-A-L, 1

  ice cream cones, 1

  ice cream van, 1

  idiot, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

  idiot savant-style playground, 1

  Imagination (band), 1

  Imagination (band) (controversy), 1

  Imaginorg, 1

  immortality, or forgetfulness (toward), 1

  imp, wee, 1

  Imperial War Museum, London, The, 1

  improvised rock music, 1

  ‘In My Magic Garden’, 1

  incubators, 1

  indentured to death, 1

  Indeterminacy, 1

  Index, 1

  India Pale Ale, 1

  indie label (surreptitiously funded by a major), 1

  industrial, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  industrial estate outside Holytown, 1

  infants, 1

  inner circle, the, 1, 2

  inoculation, 1, 2

  installation, 1, 2, 3, 4

  intellectuals, most committed, 1

  International Artists, 1

  International Times, April 1971, 1

  interpretive dance, 1

  Interstellar Space, 1

  intimation from the future (so much as a), 1

  into the depths, 1

  Ireland, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Ireland, Southern, a pox on it, 1

  Irish hitmen, pair of, 1

  Irish joke, best ever, 1

  Irish joke, second-best, 1

  Irish Republican Army, The, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Iron Gates, The, 1

  ironing board, permanently set up in the corner of the room (pet peeve), 1

  Isle of Man, the, 1, 2

  Israel, 1, 2, 3

  It Came from Outer Space, 1

  ‘It’s Impossible’, 1

  Italian chocolates, lovely, 1

  Italian sandwiches, weird, 1

  Italian superstitions, a plague on them, 1

  Italy, 1

  jackals, 1

  jacket, black leather, 1, 2, 3

  jacket, dad’s old, 1

  Jaffa (slang), 1

  Jaffa cakes, 1

  Jaffa oranges (seedless), 1

  Jam, The, 1

  jaw on the floor, 1

  Jay, Abner, 1

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

  Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, 1

  Jefferson Airplane, 1

  Jehovah’s Witnesses’ Kingdom Hall, 1

  Jerusalem, Israel, 1, 2, 3

  Jesus, face of, melting, dripping, 1

  Jewish, 1, 2

  Jewish Museum, Camden Town, London, The, 1

  Jews, the, similar to, 1

  jiffy bag, 1

  Jim & Moira (babe), 1

  job, another fucking miserable one forced on me by my parents, 1

  Joes, ordinary, 1

  Joey’s (or Machiavelli’s or something), 1

  jogging pants, tight, 1

  John the Revelator, 1

  Johnson, Blind Willie, 1

  Jones, Brian, 1

  Jordan, 1

  Jos, Nigeria, 1, 2

  Josef K, 1

  journalists, 1, 2

  jowls, cut of, 1

  joy, in life, 1

  Joy of a Toy, 1, 2, 3, 4

  judgement, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Judy the huge friendly German shepherd, 1

  jumper(s), big black woolly, 1

  justifications, manufactured (inevitably), 1

  Karloff, Boris, 1

  Karpelson, Michael, 1

  Katherine Park, Airdrie, Katherine Park, Airdrie, haunted, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Kaye, Lenny, 1

  kebab(s), spicy, 1

  Kelvingrove Park, Glasgow, 1

  Kelvingrove Street, Glasgow, 1

  Kenilworth Drive, Airdrie, 1

  Kenilworth Hotel, Airdrie, the old, 1

  Kenji, a mulatto boy, 1

  Kennedy, John F., 1

  Kerouac, Jack, 1, 2, 3

  Kesh, Abe ‘Voko’, 1

  keyboards (minimal/droney), 1

  keyboards (with keys taped down), 1

  kick, scissor (badly executed), 1

  kidneys, language of, 1

  Kilmarnock, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Kind of Blue, 1

  King’s Cross, London, 1

  kingdom of passion, 1

  Kings Cafe, Clark Street, Airdrie, The, 1

  kinks, 1

  kinky, probably, 1

  Kirklee Circus, Glasgow, 1

  kiss, salty (result of pregnancy by another man), 1


  knife, blunt, 1

  Kowald, Peter, 1

  Krautrock, 1

  Krazy Kat, 1

  kung fu guru, 1

  lake (of terror), 1

  Lakes, The, 1

  Lamps, The, 1

  Lanarkshire, 1, 2, 3

  landlord, 1

  Lasch, Christopher, 1

  lasers, home-made, 1

  Laurel and Hardy, 1

  lawns, yellowed, 1

  lead figures (painting of), 1

  leather boots, quasi-military, 1

  leather boots, thigh-high, 1, 2

  Lebanon, 1

  lebensraum, 1

  Led Zeppelin II, 1

  Leeds, 1

  leisurewear, distressing nature of, 1

  Lennon specs, irritating, 1

  Lennon specs, nun in, 1

  Leo (star sign), 1

  leotard(s), 1, 2

  Lermontov, Mikhail, 1

  Les Paul (copy), 1

  lesbian speculation, 1, 2

  Levene, Keith, 1

  libido (policed at a distance) (by your own family), 1

  life as a series of internal disturbances, 1

  lifestyle, the, 1, 2

  lighter fluid, 1

  ‘Like a Virgin’, 1

  Like Flies On Sherbert, 1

  lingerie (see also: stockings; nylons; tights), 1, 2, 3, 4

  lips, immaculate and blood-red, 1

  lips, perfectly made up, 1

  lipstick, 1, 2, 3

  lip-syncers, bunch of, 1

  Listen, Glasgow, 1

  literary fuds, 1

  literary Paris (you know), 1

  Little Nemo in Slumberland, 1

  ‘Little Rain’, 1

  Live 1969, 1

  live-action painting, 1

  ‘Live to Tell’, 1

  Loaded, 1

  local legend, 1

  locks to die for, 1

  logbook, the, 1

  London, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

  ‘Lonely Planet Boy’, 1

  longing, 1

  Lorca, 1

  Los Angeles, 1

  Lothar and the Hand People, 1, 2

  loud, 1, 2, 3

  love, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46

  love, lack of, 1

  love, on the fly, 1

  ‘Love in Vain’ (misremembered), 1

  love song, the greatest that has ever been written, 1

  Lovecraft, H. P., 1

  Lowry, Malcolm, 1

  Lucky Star, Forrest Street, Airdrie, The, 1

  lunatic, 1, 2

  Lundtoftbjerg Compromise, The, 1

  lynxes (prowling in the light of the moon), 1

  M8, the, 1

  McCormack, Mr, check this out ya prick!!!, 1

  McDowell, Mississippi Fred, 1

  McGuinn, Roger, 1

  macabre, 1, 2, 3

  Machine Gun Etiquette, 1

  ‘Mack the Knife’, 1

  mad dictator (in a science-fiction novel), 1

  mad stuff, 1, 2

  magic, career in, 1

  magic, the most efficacious, 1

  magician, practising, 1, 2

  maggots, 1, 2

  magic squares, 1