Tuesday, June 24, 2008

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THAT?

I was taking a photograph when her face, suntanned, got in mine.
‘What you taking a photograph for?’ she said, her atrocious breath.
‘Because it says, “A pillar of the community,”’ I said pointing at the writing on one of the tiled columns at the front entrance to DHS.
‘Oh yes,’ she said and I moved away...
...but not so far I didn’t hear...
‘Oi,’ she said, ‘Oi,’ to the two men she was drinking with on the corner where Hillview, Stokes Croft and Jamaica Street meet.
‘You know why he’s taking a photograph?’ she said. ‘Hey, fucking listen, listen,’ she said. ‘Oi. You know why he’s taking a photograph?’ she said. ‘Hey, listen. It’s because it says, shut up,’ she said. ‘Listen, it says, “A pillar of the community,” on that pillar, the one there, look’ she said. ‘What do you think of that? Oi,’ she said, ‘What do you think of that?’

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