PPS to crit - I must do this more slowly
I keep seeing different things in this - must be good -
but
If he was always reading last Thursday's paper every day this week, he was
always reading the same paper? Yes? Why? Was it an obit of someone he knew?
Had he carried this paper around with him for ten days? Curioser and
curioser...
bw
SallyE
on 12/7/03 6:35 pm, Bob Cooper at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> One for yr C & C:
>
> Each morning this week on The Circular
>
> He’s sat reading a paper, always last Thursdays,
> at arm’s length, squinting,
> turning pages loudly, then,
> as people nudge past him, he stops
> at a half-page photograph –
> the black and white face as expressionless,
> as grey as his own. Each trembles
> yet neither moves – until he folds it,
> stands, sways towards the door,
> gets off at the hospital then stands there
> and he’s talking, sub headings
> to a story no-one would print.
>
>
> Bob Cooper
>
>
> Oh, I hope y can work it out, The Circular is a Bus!
>
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