tales from an ordinary world

2002-05-05

Camberwell market, and the things people buy. One walked by with a framed James Dean poster with cracked glass. Another with a vinyl copy of Astral Weeks. Purses, she picked one up and a moment later an eastern European voice said "ten dollars. is good quality," and demonstrated the nice clicking sound it makes when you close it.

...and then there were the things nobody bought : a memorial Charles and Di wedding tray, or a sign with a coat of arms, saying "welcome to Melbourne, a nuclear free city." TVs, radios, board games and other old house detritus. A young man's black and white photographs, in and out of miltary uniform, or holding a soccer ball, but he was always smiling in that happy, early twentieth-century manner. I looked at shirts and jackets, but I'd already bought enough as it was.

so we kept walking, and I wondered about all my friends' stories that I'll never know.