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Excuse me, I have to get off. I think I have got lost
in the wrong novel, or am I in a weekly magazine? I get off
the 66 bus and walk across Västerbro Bridge through the park and along the lake,
drink a Vichy Nouveau, the terrace is almost deserted, the sky overcast
and the wind cold, by the table peck young wagtails that do not yet
have clear markings, pale grey as though they had been lying in developer
gone wrong. One day I wanted, I wanted to be, to be
someone else. So many summers that went by, so
many summers that I went, went far far away
in expectation, floating. Now I take the 48 home. A little girl
gets on with me, rushes through the bus, rejoicing
“I got the last window seat! Life – a treasure!”
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