LEMON AROMATHERAPY CANDLES

Despite my careers as a dogkiller, CIA operative, superhero, wanker, demagogue, pedagogue (policeman, construction worker, sailor, Native American chief, biker) I have always harboured one desire. I dream, nay would like to be, a freedom fighter. Preferably a Mexican one so I can turn up with a smelly friend who, for the sake of humour, I insist on calling Bachiss. National boundaries are, however, unimportant in my desire. Anywhere freedom is being fought (for?), I'll be there. Anywhere the weak and feeble are being oppressed, I'll be there. Anywhere there is [funny thing], I'll be there. Anywhere I get to hold a gun and go without washing or changing my clothes, I'll be there. I want to kill a genuine bad guy. All my myriad of kills, both false and imagined, have been bad guys, but whatever it is I'm standing for at that time (the police, the navy, the construction industry, etc.), when viewed in the cynical light of savage dissection, can be debated into evil. Every single one of you that reads this - especially the vegematarian, pacifist, hippies - harbours the need to kill another human. We all need to do something to benefit the human race, society, Mexico, at some point in our feeble, mundane, Mexican lives. How better to improve society than killing its evil majority? Yes, I am advocating a killing spree. Yes, I am telling you to kill as you see fit. Fly, my precious beauties, fly. Fly monkeys, fly!

While you're doing that, I'm heading to wherever there in injustice in this world, purchasing a weapon, heading to the hills (every night I pray to God that Norfolk or Holland aren't being oppressed) and making daring raids, attacking the machinations of the totalitarian regime and accidentally killing a few people in the process, before my visa expires and sadly I must return home. I always get dreamy like this whenever I read about Nelson and Umkonto we Sizwe, homages to catatonia, Xanana and others being shot by British planes, and Fidel and Che (you Americans were with me up to then, weren't you? Even the Alabama goatfucking bigotted rednecks...) They may have been grittily written about, but time and again, the French peasant girls float to the surface. They usually turn out to be fat, hairy, sweaty French peasant girls; the fantasy is shattered and the reality of being a freedom fighter still manages to sound appealing. Ennui seems to win the fight against my hippy pacifist lesbianism, but an overriding sense of malaise frips me and frips me again until I can be fripped no more. My dream retires into the recesses of my quaking chest and I am left gazing into the flame of the aromatherapy candle (lemon for lung cancer and genius. If you want one, you must put up with the other).

I am fully aware that it has been done before, but I am fully aware that I am considering creating a minor culture of oppression in my fully aware, minor sphere of influence. There are no election years for me; I can conquer 'oppression' whenever I feel like it. I may not be able to go the whole hog and kill as indiscriminately as I would care to, but maybe, just maybe, I can reach out to one of you who can. Un-tss un-tss un-tss un-tss Kill anyone (un-tss) who doesn't think. (Un-tss un-tss) Kill anyone (un-tss) who is evil (wakkabowwwwww un-tss) and oppresses others. (Un-tss un-tss) Kill anyone (un-tss) who tells you what to do. (Un-tss wakkabowww un-tss un-tss) Just kill. (Un-tss). Just kill me. (Wakkabowww). If in doubt, resort to killing. It worked for [insert funny name here].