Julian George ~ The Servant

The weasel under the cock­tail cab­i­net. – Harold Pinter

How queer.

The Man from Brazil’ a no-show.
Those cities of the plain in the jun­gle so many cas­tles in Spain.
Dishes pile up. Bills go unpaid. The mas­ter of the house sinks into a funk and
Down
The
Stairs
Playing
Endless
Pointless
Vicious
Games
Of
Handball
With
His
Sinister
Retainer, a glass of brandy poured for the winner.

Whither England?
No more Harry. No more God. A stranger to friends. At home to whores.

Jeeves and Wooster on their uppers.

~

Julian George’s work has appeared in the Naugatuck River Review, Perfect Sound Forever, New World Writing, Slag Glass City, Panoplyzine, Ambit, The Journal of Music, Film Comment, The London Magazine, Cineaste and Art Review. His nov­el, Bebe, is out in CB Editions. https://www.cbeditions.com/George.html