Monday, July 27, 2015

Trainspotting

The quotidian response
to a child in its crib
dead from neglect
is in the dirty spoon.

The scene fucked me up all day
I turned off the movie

Today I realized the film
was about the Scottish poor
same country that Jardine and Matheson 
came from
to start the opium trade with China
soon leading to the Opium Wars

Filth and feces equated with junk

If you spill a spot of tea
on your scone, you wanker
tell your lassy maid to clean it up

and be done with it.

- Roger Ebert



Built by Sir James Matheson: Lews Castle in Stornoway, Isle of Lewis.
Matheson purchased the island in 1842.

More genocidal Scottish History at: http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/usscotfax/history/clearances.html