The ceiling is freshly poured bitumen.

The raw booths insubstantial as sukkahs.

Giddy bubbles of light

stream

the dying thoughts of drowning children.

Noise booms.

                        Conversations pound.

Cocktail scissored in one hand, she tittle teeters over:

Hiya gorgeous.

Her name is Fay.

Not Faye, but Fayola.

Mum named me after a Nigerian horse. Stupid cow.

I'd laugh

except she is lancing my toes with frightening phallic heels.

Gecko eyes are not enhanced by the DJ's untimely strobe.

Fay

   is talking.

I'm

       not listening.

She 

            doesn't care.

Her lips pout, poisonous and persistent.

They leave saliva on my face, my neck, my hair.

From the niche of my eye I note

my tumbler

tumble.

Red-black liquid 

                          geisers.

Ice cubes - leap

plummet

skitter.             A snicker.

F*%$! Fay redly mouths.

'Geronimo' Music by Sheppard is a Brisbane-based indie-pop band.