You broke my collarbone, dislocated my thumb, chipped my tooth, had me hanging on the back of garbage trucks, stamping on the hands of a violinist, sleeping in phone booths, train stations, bundles of rope on harbour walls, waking on the steps of homosexuals carrying poodles, stealing canal boats, swimming through freezing rat shit, wailing [...]

Penzance at night, sickly lamposts, the dock inn, hunched seagulls, broken bottles of rum, blood and cigarette butts on granite, the black sea.  voices singing from long rock beach, devilish silhouettes dance around the light of a fire.  Closer along the cold howling beach, to find drunken men wearing baseball caps, dancing around burning driftwood, their torsos [...]