male voice:

T/C in 10:00:28:06 At school they showed us pictures of a rocket with a man and a woman on

the side. They put them there so Martians could see what we looked like

T/C out 10:00:36:03 with no clothes on.

female voice:

T/C in 10:00:38:14 Jumble-sale children; shapeless, sexless,

T/C out 10:00:43:00 like a jumper.

male voice:

T/C in 10:00:45:15 We would eat processed cheese triangles, and play together under the flyover.

We wanted to be deep sea divers which were underwater spacemen

that went exploring. Our teacher said that was a lovely

T/C out 10:00:57:15 thing to want to be.

female voice:

T/C in 10:01:00:19 Red Admiral, cabbage white, fallopian tubes, protrusions,

T/C out 10: 01:15:05 a split, a parting.

male voice:

T/C in 10:01:33:00 Mom said how are you supposed to be a diver

T/C out 10:01:35:18 when you can’t even swim.

female voice:

T/C in 10:01:53:10 Species: human. Gender: male. Inventory: spirit level, nosebleed. Magazine; dirty tape of swearwords. Donkey Kong video game,

T/C out 10:02:14:12 unwanted present with a leaky battery and no instructions.

T/C in 10:02:50:00 Geography D plus, big bang, continental drift, tectonic plates, eventually

T/C out 10:02:57:04 began to walk upright.

male voice:

T/C in 10:02:58:00 Mom said It’s no good trying to tell me anything. "Do what you like, but don’t come crying to me if you get some girl in trouble. I’m not gonna clean up after you." I told her "How was I supposed to get a girl in trouble when she didn’t

T/C out 10:03:08:10 even bother buying me the right trainers."

female voice:

T/C in 10:03:08:18 Maths C minus, Venn diagram.

T/C out 10:03:12:00 Probability, law of averages.

male voice:

T/C in 10:03:17:14 She re-appeared years later, my childhood friend.

T/C out 10:03:23:20 She was a woman now, but drunk and in need.

T/C in 10:03:36:10 I decided that in the morning I would show her that I wasn’t like those guys in the porn films. We’d talk about when we were small and how we wanted to be deep sea divers. We’d say that was a lovely thing to want to be. She’d see that I

T/C out 10:03:49:16 was sensitive and had depth and wasn’t going to get her in trouble.

female voice

T/C in 10:04:11:11 Woke up,

T/C out 10:04:13:04 sat up,

T/C in 10:04:23:20 Drops of sperm

T/C out 10:04:25:00 on leg.

T/C in 10:04:37:20 Baggage uncovered

T/C out 10:04:40:00 and categorized.

T/C in 10:04:46:15 We found traces of matriarchal

T/C out 10:04:49:20 mishmash and guilty residue.

T/C in 10:04:58:06 I took my old ammonite to bed with me.

T/C out 10:05:08:06 I felt like a confession booth with a bouncy castle inside.

male voice

T/C in 10:06:02:20 It lasted four years,

T/C out 10:06:05:05 We grew apart.

female voice

T/C in 10:06:06:08 Then he walked back home

T/C out 10:06:08:03 through the park.