Hair Hair
By Alan McCormick & Jonny Voss.
‘Hello, you must have noticed my hair.’
‘Hair today and gone tomorrow.’
‘The colour is a rust red variation on your dear child’s red balloon.’
‘It’s not my child.’
‘Quite so; but back to hair: it was inspired in part by cranberries, the indigenous American fruit not the faux Irish group from the early nineties, and by a subtle blend of mid-sixties Diana Ross and a drag queen fried of mine, Lawrence un Arabesque.’
‘What?’
‘A burlesque Arabesque friend of mine, Lawrence . . .’
‘Piss off, we’re not interested.’
‘How can that possibly be?’
‘We’re witnessing an execution, friend.’
‘My God, how very provincial! I shall depart henceforth from where good taste lies unnoticed and unappreciated.’
‘Goodbye then …. and good riddance ….. and by the way your wig looks like bunches of old burgundy rope dipped in a bucket of strawberries..’
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Jonny Voss draws and Alan McCormick writes. More of their collaborations can be found in decongested tales, deaddrunkdublin and their website, Scumsters.
First published in 3:AM Magazine: Wednesday, August 4th, 2010.
