Peter Wyton
At the End of the Killing Line
Age: 15. Height: 4’9”. Status: executive. Evidence:
tie, shoes, clip-board, nervous tic. Duties: weighing
(in transit, right to left) wheeled vats of kidneys,
hearts, heads, trotters, sweetbreads. (In transit,
left to right) wheeled trolleys, stacked with
shop-bound products. I subtract tare of vehicle
from weight of quivering offal, push periodic slips
through pigeon-hole to super-exec, in portaphonebox
with own stool. View: tiles, hooks, swinging carcasses,
flashing knives. Leisure activities: lunch break soccer
in loading yard with vat and trolley shovers, all twice
my size, clog shod, with socialist principles, or
watching older men play billiards, in a Capstan full
strength cloud, amidst a grunting, coughing scrum.
Places I seldom go, if I can help it: 1. Upstairs,
where there are people in suits. 2. The opposite end
of the killing line, where pigs are individually
stampeded through a channel, underneath a rusted stile,
where the man stands with the fag hanging from his lip,
one eye closed, the long mallet arcing over and down.
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