Wednesday, 7 October 2015

2.201232033 yrs, 25.18034826 per day

 weather is colder now, it takes longer for the shower to warm up, the pipes being colder too. Brush teeth, comb him, and find clothes for the day. The cat is attentive, attention- seeking, purring, rubbing its back against legs of people and legs of chairs and other firmware alike. It is waiting for food and, it gets some food. Gather all the bits and pieces needed for work, remememher the small disk with the pictures on it..
                Liken to the rain on the overhead window, a steady patter, interspersed with the occasional heavier sound, perhaps a larger drop, who knows? There must be a considerable physics in raindrop's and water flow of a roof
                The street is glistening wet, a cobbled alley, yellow bags of  laid out to be collected in the course of the morning. At the corner a driver attempts to free her entrapped car,  entrapped by others who had parked later and left no room to manoeuvre. Trouble at five thirty, dark and rainy.
Dolores as at the bus stop, headscarf and hand bag. Her sad serious face turns up as she says good morning, then she looks down again. Her overweight is additionally padded against the cooler weather.
and at the station, they have not faced the doors yet.
Big Blondy in a panic on service at Yorma's, she is effusive and so slow, despite her hectic activity. She calls for help, and it does not come until she has called three times. A young man called Pepe comes out from the back room, wearing a bored expression, and clears up the mess within minutes, only to return to his back room thereafter.

Hail thee, thou who shalt be king hereafter

The coffee and the buttered pretzel are strange today, all the rain- bedraggled people q making the windows in the cafe steam up.
There is a longer wait today, take a train later today, to avoid the discontinuance of local train services as of Freising,. This train will now drive direct.
During this longer wait a group of men come into the cafe, dressed in day glo orange working overalls. They are municipal workers, come in on an early break. Blondy talks loudly to them, joking, laughing, trying to be viable , trying to be fun. They listen politely, smile, then turn their backs, roll their eyes, and continue their conversation.
Unfortunate woman.
Hedgehog was there all the while, reading his paper.   He wears his hair longer now, and no longer looks like a hedgehog. Lets He is a very peaceful person, reading his newspaper.
The extra half hour is up. Leave for the platforms. Water is pouring in through a hole in the glazed  roof over stairwell to the underpass.
It is raining hard. And the train is full. commuters, and fugitives from Syria and Eritrea and Afghanistan.

Fugitives from third world chaos. 

Georgie boy, did you ever think
of the trouble you would cause,
playing with your country's toys?





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