Thoughts of a minibus traveller

  Weaving dry leaves   Saturday afternoon and sun hot. There is bench with shadows of the leaves of a nearby tree on one half, and light on the other.  Sit on the shadow on the bench.  Looking to see when the others will come for the meeting. We decided, fresh air and outdoors, Botanical Gardens.  Two people sitting under another tree. A lot of blue and pink balloons around, look like gender-reveal parties are a thing in the gardens.  Ice cream music far away More shadows of leaves appear on the bench. Time reaches for the meeting. Plan to come and be creative , in community.  T No one comes. I have a pen,and a small notepad. I have work to do at home I pick up a dry leaf and shade the texture on a paper, then take a blue ink pen to trace out veins and so.  Finish that and no one still coming.  Place not too hot.  Take out a page from the pad. Remember high school 'clothing and textiles' with warp and weft. Decide to weave the gra...

(This is not a review of Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson )  Guard The business place invited me and a lot of others to come  and do a transaction so we could continue doing business with them.  A lot of us probably would go elsewhere but like so many relationships which are bad, leaving is not always easier than staying. I pass one guard , not really seeing him as he is shorter than me and he tells me to go to 'the woman there' .. "the woman there" - another security guard, smiling , polite, tells me 'don't worry it wouldn't take long', relaxed stance.",, and 'you here , might as well stay.." when I realise that I am in the black hole of customer waiting. Sit down and take out Open Water.  I have started, stopped, started many times since I got it over a year ago. Place nice and cool with the AC, some children running around.  TV has cricket India and Bangladesh silent silent. Ads and so for 'NRIs' .. and loans and so. Radio ...

 Pink grapefruit  "Dem is one fuh 200, 3 for 500, dem is One for hundred" the man shouted at me in the market after I stopped and looked at the two baskets of pink grapefruit. I started picking up the smaller onesit to feel them , he continued 'three for two hundred'  Different sizes, some have the pale yellow skins , others the green skin with splotches of pink.  Teeth and so been giving me some issues and I wonder if something is wrong because in this oil and gas , climate changed economy is rare to find citrus going 'cheap'  and some are not juicy or not 'sweet'   I feeling to see if anything wrong, fingers working the fruit while mind going through all kind of things that .. dis can't be true.. I wonder if exxon people reject them and send them back, or if is Brazillian extras the man get.. or is it stolen property and the man hustling to sell off before police come .. (There was another man who used to sell ortanique cheaper than everybody els...