How to start this little ditty. Thinking-cap on, writers-block pants strewn on the floor.
This is a story about a man. A real man. A man like no other….
I flick my cigarette…
The cabbie is not pleased, he does not stop screaming. The butt collided with his left ear. He has ear lobes like Ghandi’s thong. He doesn’t appreciate when I point this out between his painful wails.
For some reason the man makes me get out, refusing to go any further. I’d flogged the donkey dry, his services rendered useless. Miles from my ‘dwelling’, I continue to stumble.
After completing my studies at the “Derek Zoolander Center For Kids Who Can’t Read Good And Wanna Learn To Do Other Stuff Good Too”; with an open mind and knowing that there’s more to life than just being really, really, really ridiculously good looking; I went travelling.
I saw all kinds of fashion traits, freaks and style gurus from all round. The world was my oyster and I was keen to establish my own sense of style and direction as I wondered through the streets of other worlds.
I look at my watch. Half-past Five in the afternoon?
Is that right… Have I lost a day? I’m so confused now, but I truck on. I would murder every last Panda Bear into extinction for an Aussie meat pie at this stage. God am I hungry.
I pause to take in my surroundings. I don’t even know if I’m going the right way. Where am I? Half-past Five? Is that right? What the fuck have I been doing? I look from left to right. I’m a coiled spring ready to explode at any second, nothing makes sense.
Suddenly something catches my eye; there’s a big glass window up ahead. There’s a skull in it. Completely lost, gathering my nerve I move forward to explore.
Its a Tattoo Parlour. I giggle like a schoolgirl. Pure evil thoughts course through my veins.
Before I’ve even realised it, I’ve walked in. Inside there is your usual kinda tattooists covered from head to toe in the form of human art. The place is new and it has a certain class: polished wooden floors, a large black leather sofa couch and statues of all sorts. “Is that a real baby in that jar?” I wonder aloud as I hover towards the ‘desk’. Buzzing with excitement I ask if they have any appointment. “When?” they ask dryly. My response was prompt with a short “NOW”. Their instant reaction was a simple and conceded ‘no… but you’re more than welcome to make a booking. Sir‘. Sir my arse, I’m going elsewhere.
This always works, turns out all of a sudden some guy called ‘Diamond Jack’ has cancelled. What a convenience.
They politely ask for my piece and what I’d like done. Crap, I haven’t thought this far ahead. Then it hits me!
A nest! Two swallows flying in perfect unison just above my ‘Hoo-Hoo Grub’, protecting my eggs. The equation is right and it all fits. Something that can now identify me in a naked line up.
‘Yeah that’s him officer. That’s the guy that flashed me. The one with the birds. Oh god I cant take this! What a monster…’ (sobs) ‘He was 5 foot 7, dark short hair and had Two swallows above his penis. I saw it clear as day’
Two birds?
A nest?
Is it a symbolic piece about protecting the balance of the family? Two parents watching over their children? Or is it just a sick joke from some weird guy… this weird guy trying to start a weird craze? You decide my friend…. I propose we start a new trend! The early bird catches the worm after all.
Next time someone asks whether you spit or swallow, you think about my birds in all there glory, flying high and proud. As Dave Chapelle once put it, “should I save up to get Botox on my balls so they can be smooth as eggs?” Now that would complete the nest nicely.



