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Lip and fist

  • Writer: Stephen Hornsby-Smith
    Stephen Hornsby-Smith
  • Aug 21
  • 5 min read

Updated: Sep 6


Abstract painting with vibrant swirling lines in yellow, green, blue, and red. Curved patterns create a dynamic, energetic mood.

- Lip or fist, this is the riddler meets the quip ! I am the 'in your face' to settle who has the strongest non AI chip !?

- You mean, who has the smart mouth and who dies if they don't !

- Do you have a problem with male jibber jabber Mr elusive conclusive ? Aren't you the one who 'spells the crossword?'

- I make up answers to the clues that I can't get !

- They know ! That's why you're up against yours truly !

- They say you're a man of hate without loyalty to your own kind ?!

- That would be me

- Proud to do England proud ?

-Every time , same old answers ! They and I never get tired of them !

-Yeah yeah same tame !

- It would be my pleasure to see you on death row by whipping your ungrateful and treasonable arse !

- Stuff your grammar ! Impress me with your epigrams your epithets , your Oscar Wildes and I'll gladly punish you and all your ancient barbarism ! That's right, Poof the fuckin magic dragon! Mr mighty, magic and empty words, Sandman !

- Okay !! Let's make these bastards spell crooked today !

- That's the way to obey....

- and that's the way to delay !

- For Jimmy?

- For Jimmy !

-Spin the wheel of fortune and get us some' this is not English, but what do they know to the crow !

-Torture them before they torture us ?

- Let's freak them out and stay in the shout !

- And the rules are the same or are we playing the Dane ?

- Lee starts singing ' They say they only learn their English from radio 1 too ,3 and 4 and yet seem to gravitate for some more'.' Any hesitation or deviation...

-..or repetition..

-But be careful and watchful?

- Lee starts singing again..'Ratings are up, pain is in, disdain is finding their reality TV within!

- 'Routines and Arse rapes, traps and earfuls not in Germany ?' sings the prisoner

-Have we acclimatized quickly this last decade ?

- 2 decades mate ! "I've a very important date ! No time to say hello goodbye You're late you're late you're late !

- A tenner for your troubles Sir ? The first ? Were we friends with all our Northies?

- Don't over do the musicals! Lee remonstates pointing and laughing with the guards at the prisoner

-5 or so years near the border and the last 3 years of training will put you in a disorder that makes you a whore with a craving for a raving !

- We have ourselves an ex drug addict Mr Right Charlie !

- You fuckin volunteered for this shit ?

-NO ! Fuck no ! I got into some trouble in Seoul... this was my only way out !

- You've been leveraged !!! What did you do to deserve that ?

-Fuck all ! That was the problem !

- You ratted on your commanding officer??!! He fucked his commanding officer Lee says to the guards , and they mock the prisoner !

- No, I was the commanding officer !!

Both men laugh at themselves, but the guards do not take to their inside joke !

-START NOW OR WE GIVE YOU PAIN !



"- Stop torturing words or they will torture you !

- Never stop, never yield, never end..

- ................................................never delete and never send !

-North Korean roulette isn't about losing, it's about conceding before you hurt someone by refusing !

- There's a lot of counting but not a lot of adding up

- That's not back to the start, that's back to front !

-I'll be back means I'll be forward 1

- In politics your friends are your closest allies and nearest enemies !

Don't tell me what I don't want, tell me what you want and I'll tell you what you need !

Losing is a pretext for winning in the jaws of victory !

- bad behaviour helps us see, our own bad behaviour helps us learn !

- Alcohol helps us restore an absence of alcohol !

- But hangovers require 100% of effort and effort requires 100% of hangovers

- books open the page to look, ending the last page get's us to see !



Pause, the lights go out.. A beating takes place, sounds of grunts, yelps and coughs

SPEAK QUICKLY!! NOW OR I BREAK YOUR FACE

-Still concentrating then ? aaaargh!! LIKE MY PUNCH? FIND MY KICK !!

_All right , all right, let's keep it and him so that you get to learn your English like a private lesson ?

_ WE LEARN !! NO PRIVILEGE !!

-- A page number distorts a page turner !.The popular voice of alcohol sings aloud colour, vigour, enthusiasm and fills company full of depressing and suicidal thoughts ! Try before you buy !

- Thanks mate! Crawls back onto his chair ! whilst spitting blood and muttering 'Life expects, people under deliver !

-Society has at its best the narrative of collision when it refuses any rebelliousness, but that engages subversive behaviour applied against the rebels !

- Yeah easy mate ! Nothing too political ! 'Conspiracies are exchanged as Christmas presents !

- Panic is when there is no one to panic for you !

- You only know when you've lost your freedom when you get it !

-Liberty ? It's take it or leave it !

- Democracy is when everyone gets what they've always wanted but don't like it when they have it !

-The most expensive gift is the gift of subversion !

-Diamonds may be forever, but mortality never ends !

-Expectation is an invaluable commodity but achieving those expectations is a drop in the ocean !

- Money is exchangeable for more of it !

- Guns never fall silent, but people do !

- The air we breathe is not the same colour we inhale !

-Inheritance is expendable, especially for those who can't afford it !

-Carrying a gun is no defence at not using it , but it helps

-Duty and honour don't pay attention to dignity

WE FINISH NOW!

- Hungry lads ?

- Do you need us to be in chains ???

- For me, I'll need a roast ..ing whenever you need me to erm ?????

See you when we next cross the tango with spam !

- You did well !

- You did crap !

- BE SHUT BEFORE I CRACK YOUR CAGE !

- Ribs on the menu then ?

- A BIG SMACK ON UNCLE MACDONALDS !

- Did he spell that right ?

- I don't think he spelt that right ! okay just a joke

YOU WANT JOKE ? HERE IS A JOKE a beating starts on both prisoners, as a noise is heard from the other prisoners bashing their metal food bowls against their prison bars ,as they shout out a football song " For lee's a wanker lee's a wanker tralalalala ! But they all hear the agony of the two men being beaten alive , and only stop their chanting after the beating stops and the screams end !

 
 
 

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