Lawrence
Hall, HSG
Dispatches for the Colonial Office
Southern Belle Antiques
‘N’ Stuff
(Slow sibilant bathroom-slipper-shuffle)
“Oh, don’t close the door, honey, oh no
If the door is closed no one will know I’m open
English Romantics? Here’s an Edgar Allan Poe
I read lots of books myself; do you like westerns?”
(Dark narrow paths tunnel through dark moldy heaps)
“I paid fifty dollars for that bolt cutter
It’s almost new; I bought it for my daddy
My brother locked him out of his own house
You can have it for twenty; I live upstairs”
(The shambling slippers follow me to the door)
“It’s a shame that girls don’t play with dolls anymore
Come back anytime; I’m mostly open”
