chimpanzee_monkey

..............feeling both a sense of deep excitement and simultaneous trepidation as the names of my then peers, contemporaries and there respective places and achievements in this life, this world were detailed upon the screens. It was startling and surprising; names that I'd almost forgotten I'd not heard of or seen for so many years came up under the lists of schools, workplaces and universities. Babies had been born, marriages and divorces, things in essence so simplistic but so essential to fundamental humanity were all scribed

A girl - perhaps, of no more than nineteen years of age - but her face already lined, ravaged and worn - is handing the crumpled tenner she's just sold herself for- now to seek her reward down a litter strewn alley off 'St Anns Chase.' A man in sports gear, his body adorned with the gaudy gold jewellery of greed takes the note and hands her the one miserly cellophaned wrap of Crack Cocaine. Life lived out through the white smoky haze of the gauze pipe ' the exchange of a never-ending agony.