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Beggar's Belief (2005)

After a few minutes had elapsed I dragged myself kicking and screaming up the stairs and back to the cold familiarity of my little abode. Keeping a close eye on proceedings I positioned my muzzled physicality at the window and draped myself over the windowsill. Sacks of folks, pair after pair made purchases from the ice cream truck and took a well-earned rest back to their daily lives.

My room was on the thirteenth floor and let me assure you getting up that flight of stairs to that floor was quite some epic struggle of Homeric proportions. Rice egg and fish (kedgeree) was the fuel needed for these struggles; fortunately my appetite was small and my struggles petty.


The black night and the white moon were my companions that night for no wooden stilts could hold me up any more. The broken television emitting a blue light and a stormy din and the previous nights rain still dripping onto the logged carpet. “At the end of the day who am I, the spokesperson for economic rationalism, to argue with a little exploitation.

On every wall of my room was a fire extinguisher as pipe ash causes fires in the home. Inside my head depression spot fires were put out with a little fire from the belly.
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