Estate

A burnt-out three-piece suite blocks the alleyway. A grey knife fills the plain purple rectangle. Shrunk trees of both standard and advanced nursery sizes bend faster. Store detectives are on duty and the strains of today's lifetime can and do take their toll. She asks people for money so quietly that no one understands a wide-ranging debate in which imaginative and constructive proposals are presented. 'I can't take them off. I've got a black eye.' A dwelling is removed. Hammers bang. A crane screeches. Balconies stack dark grey on the sky. Although the carry-back of tax relief is the raison d'être for these offers, the promoters claim that the slump gives a unique opportunity for buying residential property. Scattering symbols, names and phrases. Mouth, eye, nose and eyelash. A white line wavers up and bends through into the face.