lady day...

...the wry smile of a man that missed his
bus, compared to the belligerent swear words of a
corpulent Chinese man, coarsely shouting into the
afternoon with the lingering smell of duck and
plum sauce emanating...
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AA
..age occurring in thighs, with slight
cellulite...
...the contours of freckles around pubic
hair, soon shaved...
...again, Claudia emerges from out of the
darkness, light yellow dress under a long hooded
jacket, arpicot coloured, where she is now sat on
the sofa speaking of eternity as if a walk through
Dalston Market... an Argentine man with a caged
blue throated macaw buys seeds before boarding a
Bus in Stratford towards Romford... two women,
Polish and Russian, decide to quit their jobs as
Lawyer and Shop assistant, respectively, to
become strippers... a breast outside Bethnal Green
Tube Station is vehemently grabbed with
sandwich meats residue caressing the nipple,
before the hand is pulled away and the lady moves
off hastily down towards Hackney Road... three
candles are purchased by a junky for a crack den
near Queensbridge Road with coins stolen from a
Muslim man, that moonlights as a pimp on the
week days, mostly Thursdays after Eastenders...
four discarded sheets of off white wood panel lay
on the ground, having been placed there by
Claudia's landlord, who she comments of as,
absurdly misogynist for reasons she fails to
disclose... though Melania can fail to pin point
what she is supposed to feel? how she is supposed
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