We come down from a walkway, turn a corner, climb a slope, among the walls of desolate grey, under the sky of desolate white stained with black (call it... grey), to achieve the vantage and vista of the broken heart of things. On our right, the Primark where it seems he used to work, maybe when it was called something else. (All is memory; some of it seems to have gone unactivated a while.) Ahead, an elevated clock ticking the town's time. Right here, sight's first challenge: a warping moulded erection of granite, marble, charcoal, whatever. He tells me it's called 'Joyride'. It turns out to be an image of mother and child, nothing to do with naughty drivers. I take a couple of pictures. There are plenty more where this came from. For instance: a few hundred yards later, an inhabited, stained block of concrete that seems to be getting ill. The health centre. A little way up this street parade, a half-fabled place. The Library. Its name's white letters descend the brick wall. I need to frame this to get them all in: and him, standing outside, looking away, not quite like he's just come here from the dole office and is about to depart with a battered random acquisition, a Frank Kermode nobody else wanted this week, or this year. There's another where that came from. It's not as good. I didn't quite get all the letters in. The rest of them are even more interesting than this. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Send Flowers for Valentine's Day http://shopping.yahoo.com +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+