September 2007

The city and its strangers #10

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“I’m glad I’ve finally met you”, he said to the photographer.
“I figured it must be you leaving those cardboard boxes.
I’ve been wanting to tell you about the guy who begs here at night.
He sets up just over there, comes over, reads what you have written and if it suits his purposes, he takes it back to his spot for the evening.
I wonder what he’ll make of this one” he mused.

Recycling Stephen Cummings song, ‘It’s not me, it’s you.’ in Bourke St, Melbourne.