Re: Sussurationi - part 1
I move on from bridge admiring, past the kids’ playground where there are rarely more than a couple of children, sometimes with a parent, more usually on their own. Parents round here have a naïve trust in the safety of their offspring - either that or they’re past caring. The funny thing is, none of the kids ever seem to come to harm; it’s always middle class families whose children go missing, get messed up by paedophiles, have road accidents, have you noticed? Maybe it’s true what they say about the devil looking after his own. There’s a small girl now on the slide. As I approach she slips down the chute very slowly, her shoes firm against the sides in case the G-force hurtles her off into space or something. She’s wearing a thin red cardigan, totally inadequate on this cold day, and pink leggings which bag at her skinny knees. When she reaches the ground and prepares to mount the steps again I see that she’s wearing sparkly mock grown up shoes with a small heel. Now that can’t be right, surely? She can’t be more than seven. I smile. She totally ignores me as if I don’t exist. She perches for a minute at the top of the slide in that little cage thing and I see her pinched young-old face and know just what she will look like when she’s grown up, and just what her life will be. Sometimes I could weep, I really could.Re: Sussurationi - part 1
Days do drag though, here on the estate. I mean, what is there to do? All the shops in the precinct are boarded up and defaced with ungrammatical insults and patently impossible gynacological contortions.Re: Sussurationi - part 1
I never see any signs of life though, and the high windows are always heavily shrouded in curtains. Those sorts of people don’t exactly spend their evenings hanging out of the casements on the lookout for their old man to stagger home from the pub, or keeping a sharp eye out for pond feeders nicking their wheels.Re: Sussurationi - part 1
The State of the Estate, it depends what is done with with ones basic training, and what allegiances are formed. Its probably best to fly solo, if full detachment is to be achieved, further down the line, still, semi detachment is good enough, "Lest we Forget".Re: Sussurationi - part 1
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