Athens Descent Page 16

The Surveyor
Two bald men pass each other by a wall of green leaves, one of them talking with his hands. A woman with a pearl necklace walks by on the phone, trying to end the call. Beside the kiosk, a man rubs his nose and waits; a young woman in round sunglasses floats past without noticing anyone. Then, at the foot of the green-leaf wall, a grey-bearded surveyor in a yellow vest bends to his instrument. He squints into the eyepiece, measuring a street everyone else is just trying to get through.