Athens Descent Page 14

The Man with the Newspaper
On a shady corner the neighbourhood comes and goes. A man in shorts heads for his scooter, another argues loudly into his phone, a woman in navy walks fast with her leather bag. On a bench, someone lifts her face to the sun and makes a call. Then an old gentleman in a green polo and a cap crosses the street with his newspaper rolled in his hand. He does it slowly and carefully, the way he has probably done it every morning for years.