Friday, 19 August 2016

in a run down hall at the end of town


Friday, 19 august 2016
A big girl on a small slim bicycle passes on down the alley,
turns right at the church and on down the main street.
see her turn left down the Theater street, another bicycle
and cycliste leaves the theatre street and pedals on down The
old town street.
Landshut traffic at five in the morning on a Friday.
See Dolores on her way to the bus stop, slow, almost dragging herself, dutiful on her way to the bus stop.



-at the bus stop the ground is sticky with sap dripped from the lime trees.
A woman with glowing red sneakers walks along
the promenade, past the ducks that are all sitting the wall.
This is the last day at work for two weeks,

There is a poster on a stand advertising Flatley's
Lord of Dance, to take place in a run down hall at
the end of town. There are other posters too.

Dolores remains sitting on a park bench, Thirty yards away.
An orange dumpster passes on its way into town, swerving from the main road into the pedestrian zone.
The waste disposal crew are all peering out at the huge front window of the truck,
probably all barely awake. They are all wearing Their safety clothes, the red ones with the reflective strips.
The bus driver changes the professed note with the remark that it is better to have a lot of large money notes than a small amount of loose coins. A friendly man, good-humoured in the morning.


At the railway station:
The smoker, says good morning, he is in mutual discussion with a tall white haired man, another
smoker.
In y's Cafe the service is a young woman with an Indian face and an absolutely perfect german.
One large coffee, and that will be the last of this tour
for two weeks.
and the train is late.

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