Sep. 16th, 2021
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The fountain in the centre of town had frozen over and the cold had made the things that lived below it listless and sluggish.
Sluggish, but still hungry.
The sanitation engineers - the title was an important distinction in a town where Garbagemen were not men and collected things that were not garbage - used pool hooks to tug the larger pieces free from the pink-stained ice. The smaller parts, fingers, toes, teeth and the single still-blinking blue eye that bobbed, untethered, in a shallow pool of melt-water, would require the use of a shrimping net.
A shrimping net, and much caution.
Ongoing Verse: The Powers That Be
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Sluggish, but still hungry.
The sanitation engineers - the title was an important distinction in a town where Garbagemen were not men and collected things that were not garbage - used pool hooks to tug the larger pieces free from the pink-stained ice. The smaller parts, fingers, toes, teeth and the single still-blinking blue eye that bobbed, untethered, in a shallow pool of melt-water, would require the use of a shrimping net.
A shrimping net, and much caution.
Ongoing Verse: The Powers That Be
( Read more... )