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A woman, slumped in her dull car, peers out, disapproving, making notes with pursed lips; a man in a shabby coat, trading gossip, rubbing his crotch through baggy trousers, looking smug; a cat rolls on a carpet left on a garden path; a dog pisses on a grass verge, wetting the plastic bottle thrown there, glistening now; a blue four wheel drive fails to complete a three point turn; and stalls down in the sunken road dusty in leaves; a house alarm goes off and is ignored; you cunt, shouts a youth to his friend right there, beside him, grinning, compliant, dragging feet as the two torrent downhill noisily. ----- UNFRAMED GRAPHICS by Lawrence Upton 42 pages; A5 paperback; colour cover Writers Forum 978 1 84254 277 4 wfuk.org.uk/blog ---- Lawrence Upton Dept of Music Goldsmiths, University of London