i came home

1 july 2006
i came home to a strange sight last night. i walked up our street coming home from work. it was a cold night. we are having our coldest winter in 30 years. there was nothing but stars and my own breath in the air. as i approached our gate i saw an odd hobbled over figure in the blue moonlight rummaging through the rubbish bins opposite our house. and on our side of the street there was blue smoke wafting and then chugging and wafting and disappearing and back again, coming from beneath the trees, coming from the earth. it was so strange. like i was watching my own dream but i wasnt in it. it was michael in the bin taking souvenirs of the gay men who are moving out. he found you some nice salad bowls and a strange big soup mug a box of kath and kim dress up fridge magnets and some austin powers fridge magnets, and a seiko watch in perfect working order and a lot of things he should have left there. and in the top corner dad had dug a whole about a metre down into the flower bed and started a fire beneath the fence to burn away the tree root uprooting the brick fence.