Stupider

We’re sinking. We’re giving up. Letting ourselves be swallowed down and down. As by some mighty sea serpent. As Jonah was swallowed down by a Leviathan.

We’re being swallowed by the Newcastle earth. Gulped down. We’re sinking.


A vortex of the earth. A kind of earthquake.

Hardly an earthquake – a really well built tunnel. The Victorians built things well.

Cheap labour. Lots of poverty.

And skill. And pride.


Can’t you feel the gravity? Pulling up downward. The earth’s tractor beam. Wouldn’t you just like to be lain down in the sod?

And sodomized. Yes please.


You must feel at home here, Helmut. The Heidegger likes to be close to the soil. A bit of blood, and that would complete things, wouldn’t it?

Who’s your favourite fascist? If you had to pick one? Would you rather be ruled by Hitler or Mussolini?


Katabasis. Are we getting more stupid as we descend, do you think? Are we drooling more? Dragging our knuckles? Are our IQs dropping a point every hundred meters? Saying duh more often?


We are stupid and growing stupider.

Is that a word?

One only the stupid would use.