First draft.

A place for flash fiction, before the editing/rewriting process.

Sunday, 14 November 2010

Houses of Brick Walls

It rains on the sidewalk where you sit. 
Pitter patter on grey concrete wit. 
Yours are the walls of endless minds 
Casting doubt on the effort of your daily grind.


A soggy brown jumper with worn away threads
of a life that’s lived entirely in shreds
Dirty edged where hands emerge
to beg in kind, from a life on the verge

Your eyes held downward to puddles of slime
shunned by the looks from Victorian grime
A culture, humanity, passing on by
Ignoring the plight on the main street of life

The one who lives his existence
huddled against a brick wall