Girls-Modern

Completely F***ing See-Through

Completely Fucking See-Through by Francesca Beard

Melanie
Look at that cow, on that hill.  All the others are by the fence, and he’s just there, hanging out by himself.  Why?  That’s cool.  If I were a cow, I’d stand on top of that hill.  I bet you get a great view up there.  You know just before, I heard all these cows mooing, but really loud, I mean they were bellowing and I thought shit, I wonder if they’re being slaughtered.  You know, you go into Burger King and your Happy Meal all comes in this neat little wrapper and you never have to think about some poor cow screaming its tits off in a shed.  And I imagined men in green wellies with electric cattle-prods, sticking them up the arses of those poor cows – ’cause that’s what I think about the countryside – it’s a nasty violent place where stuff goes on that you wouldn’t want to know about, stuff that’s hidden away in all this open space.  Mind you it’s nice to have open space around.  In London, there’s no space it’s all bought up and scrawled on.  See, to me, that’s nature, that hill.  It just Is There.  So real.  No one owns it.  (Beat)  Except, actually, some fucker does probably own it.