6 things I saw today
An up-high window-box
on a honey-stone façade filled with cacti; the sort that look a bit like green Mickey-Mouse
ears.
An old-fashioned marble
counter in Cadiot-Badie, a venerable chocolate shop on the Allées de Tourny. The young woman who served me was wearing yellow-gold
eye-shadow.
A glimpse of long
black hair as the woman sitting behind me on the tram told her friend back home
in Marseille that she was really quite happy, it was just that nothing had
happened in her life yet. Her not-from-here accent rang out like a fog-horn.
“Boats on the Shore”, a painting by Joan Eardley.
Someone tweeted it earlier today and even on my phone screen I loved it: vivid
boat colours streaked across the bottom left-hand corner, the rest a dullish green
sea.
A woman at the tram
stop with a tote bag that declared “J’ai donné/ du sang / et vous?” I can’t
remember if those were the exact words, but the middle line was red and
diagonal, with the whole thing giving off a bit of that seventies aesthetic
that’s popular. They don’t want my blood because I lived in the UK during those
very seventies. Prions, you see.
My daughter’s smudged
mascara. A bad mark when you’ve worked hard is difficult to accept.
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