Outside the front of the place there is an old bus. The door is open and I go and sit down for a cold drink. Blue eyes comes in and sits across from me. This is one of those times where the world goes quiet. Where there are only you and him. You can focus on nothing but his face.
He starts talking. I don’t understand most of it and he had a very croaky voice. I suspect from what he says he has throat cancer. He’s got some gold teeth and I ask him about them. Turns out he was a boxer. I can see it in his nose. You’re so fixated on the eyes you don’t notice much else. I look at his hands. He gabs my hand and he pulls, hard. I pull hard back. He starts to smile. We’re there both pulling against each other, smiling, minds meeting. It’s a rare spell and it’s soon broken by oily chimp coming on and saying the radiator is done. I make bubble noises to ask if he tested it and he just laughs and smiles too. “You think I’m an amateur?”. I dunno mate. I’ll find out later
The driver takes me back to the bike stop. I ask if I can stay a couple of nights. He says stay as long as you like, then buggers off and leaves me all alone in the building.
This would never work in
. There are tools here. There is a kitchen with a fridge and cooker. Washing machines. And a shit load of “hot beds”. Choose one and hope the last occupant didn’t have anything nasty. I’m past caring. Way way past.
He starts talking. I don’t understand most of it and he had a very croaky voice. I suspect from what he says he has throat cancer. He’s got some gold teeth and I ask him about them. Turns out he was a boxer. I can see it in his nose. You’re so fixated on the eyes you don’t notice much else. I look at his hands. He gabs my hand and he pulls, hard. I pull hard back. He starts to smile. We’re there both pulling against each other, smiling, minds meeting. It’s a rare spell and it’s soon broken by oily chimp coming on and saying the radiator is done. I make bubble noises to ask if he tested it and he just laughs and smiles too. “You think I’m an amateur?”. I dunno mate. I’ll find out later
The driver takes me back to the bike stop. I ask if I can stay a couple of nights. He says stay as long as you like, then buggers off and leaves me all alone in the building.
This would never work in
. There are tools here. There is a kitchen with a fridge and cooker. Washing machines. And a shit load of “hot beds”. Choose one and hope the last occupant didn’t have anything nasty. I’m past caring. Way way past.
. The circumference of the word at this latitude is about 24.000km and I’m about 10,000 km from home. I’m about 40% the way round
