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An angry sky rained on everybody that day. Businessmen in shiny suits skidded past the homeless, who sat sheltered in cardboard. The rhythmic tapping drummed my skull and hair matted my cheeks while drips ran down the curvature of my ears to form in two unused breast pockets. Puddles erupted under the slowing tyres of the no. 73 and, with the wind lashing my face, I leapt forward into another day.

The man on the bus was lean, his eyes sat far back in his face, pushed inward in peculiar contrast to his other protruding features. A nose that screamed red and purple sat hooked between deep furrows above and a tattered moustache below. Hidden beneath was a mouth of indiscriminate proportions, impossibly thin yet bulbous, two clay snakes rolled onto a putty face. He made his way over to the adjacent seat and squeezed in besides rolls of fat that desperately failed to be a woman. He leant forward, motioning to me. Never one to shy from rambling, I joined him in the space between. Directly into my right lobe he whispered, “If your eyes don’t rain today boy you’ll never grow”. Then he leapt up and dashed for the already closing doors.

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Fri, 21 May 2010 06:23:47 -0700 A New Place to Play http://tomshanks.posterous.com/a-new-place-to-play http://tomshanks.posterous.com/a-new-place-to-play This new blog will be a playground for anything I've been working on.
Taking over from: http://tomshanks.blogspot.com/ and http://tomshanksabove.blogspot.com/
Everything posted here will be unpublished and unpolished.
Enjoy. Join in. Be kind. Shoes off.
B x

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