Childhood Memorabilia

The roofs of Central Christchurch is my special place. There's a bottle at my bedside that I found there, down a hole in the building, one with lots of windows but no real way down. it's more than one hundred years old.

In the weekend I went down a new route, because an alarm has been installed down my usual one, And I found a trapdoor to an old attic that clearly hadn't been used for anything for a very long time. There was an inch of dust on all the floors. And a massive old generator. And an elevator shaft, that without my torch I would have fallen down. It almost killed me, so I pissed down it.

I was beginning to get scared of ghosts, so i was beginning to leave.

On a wooden beam there was a circular gap in the inch thick dust, a precise, fresh one. And in the middle of it was a hairpin.

I don't know if whoever left it there would approve of me taking it, but i did, and I put it on my blazer. Because that kind of thing is really beautiful.

Maybe one day I'll be down there, just leaving, and my light will shine on the hairpin's owner. And I sure hope they are as beautiful as their hairpin. And I sure hope that I am as well.

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