Slow eyes and morning light. Synthetic tones, recorded voices. Starting and stopping.
Tuesday’s conductor looks exactly like a Vogon. Squared, lumpen head. Fraught teeth in a squashed face under a gleaming comb-over. Swaying heavily side to side, nodding shiny-lipped at tickets brandished like crucifixes.
Is it wrong to select your table based on the female commuters? Tuesday’s view does not engage.
The first herd settle. Dull, bovine women – the younger ones more saddening – unfurling their infant-bright coloured Chat rags. LIFE, DEATH AND PRIZES. Bowing heads over Take a Break, to intently push biro around wordsearch, or arrow-words, or – with a deep breath – Sudoko.
Slow, closing eyes. Synthetic voices. Stopping. The second herd.
Sudden squat, bellowing jewellery-pigs ensconced in thick coats and hair dye. Shuffling, bag-clutching, installing themselves in pairs and coarsely jabbering; crowing their combined social insight toward crescendos of heart-clenching cackle.
Recorded tones. Tuesday starting.
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> Is it wrong to select your table based on the female commuters?
Of course it is you weirdo. They don’t engage because they are afraid to look up and catch you perving over them.
Just kidding, girls do it too, haven’t you seen Before Sunrise?
YOUKENWURDSNTHAT!!
I like these. Nice and otherworldly. Keep em coming, prose-puss.
> Before Sunrise
Still on the To See list amazingly…
> prose-puss
Ha haa
Ahem – where the productivity then, hmmm? Evidently I need to administer more rum next time…
This stuff annoys me. Did any of them ASK to be looked at and ripped to shreds based on pure appearances?
I think empathising with a caricature is a bit odd. It’s an exercise, not an attack complete with victim.
how easily one gets caught up in the big city, mechanically carrying on with chores of the day, not stopping to think, observe, look up and so easily turning into one of the herd… get on the train, off the train, tv on, tv off, eyes open, blink, eyes closed, sleep, coffee, get on the train, repeat.
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