hint
I stood on the overpass, leaning over the rusted railing, the black artery below me pulsing with melted car lights. Each passing car is a separate, lonely soul, sucked into the same directional movement towards some promise that...
like a gentle nothingness
That sound, rhythmic and insistent like an inquisitor's interrogation, long ago became my inner metronome, beating the beat not of prayer but of decay. A drop. Silence. A drop. The faucet in the washroom at the end of the corridor, broken maybe since spring, during the dead of night...
The heavy, like cement dust, the body climbed into a two -storey bus, and every step is a separate breakthrough in pain through the knees and hips as if to rotate the rusty screws in the body joints. The upper floor, as always, stinks…