You can hear me
 
"Can you hear me?"
Voices in my head.
Voices in my head.
A corkscrew would get them out.
3.15 a.m. the alarm.3 nights in a row.Yesterday, the day before, and now - today.
I set it for 7.45.You give it me 3.15.
"Yes, I hear you. What do you want?"
"Look out of the window?"
That pavement down there -three storeys down, it looks hard and cold.
I'd laugh if I bounced, or if it was soft and embraced me like a feathered mattress.
You'd feel stupid then - wouldn't you?
You're buried there. Don't give me that. I don't believe you.
"Why not? It's possible."
I'm going back to bed, leave me alone.
All right, not bed then, but I will make myself a drink and you and me, well, we'll have this out. "One time and one time only. What do you say?"
"So who are you? Have you a name? Do I know you? Have I wronged you?
Do I owe you? When I need you to talk to me, you don't , -... do you?"
OK, I'll be quiet. And wait.
"Your name is Alice, well, that's a start."
Anything more to say, sorry, I'll shut up."You live here - no you don't, mate.You might think you do but you don't"
"Alice girl or Alice bloke? - like that rock singer.You don't know what I'm talking about. Well, you wouldn't, would you?So Alice, what gives? why 3.15.a.m. -that alarm?"
 
Because you can.
 
"It's not funny Alice.
 
You try getting up for work when you can't even get out of your pyjamas, your car window shows you vectors, not streetlamps. And I'm that dog tired I make mistakes in my job."
 
"Have you a message for me? Or a warning? Have you got a message that you need to give me that I have to give to somebody else? Why are you here? Have you a purpose? Once it's done, will you go away? Will you leave me alone, will you leave me in peace?"
 
"That's not fair Alice, I don't mind helping you if you don't mind helping me.
Put yourself in my shoes. Forget I said that. It was stupid."
So you're not going anywhere.
 
"So how does this end Alice?" You don't know. It's up to me-you say.
If I go through the pavement I might join you in your grave
"Is that it? Would that make you happy? Is that what you want?"
   
"Waste of a life."
 
"Do you mean yours or mine?"
 
That window opened easy. It's not like in the movies. In the movies when people throw themselves out of the window, well, they just throw themselves out of the window.
 
But in real life,

" Yes, real life Alice, you have to get up on to the inner windowsill, scrunch down, stretch your legs and your bottom over the outer, hunker down and get your legs to dangle."
 
"Catch me Alice, I'm coming."