Wearing a ragged coat he wonders the streets of the city.
Walking softly along them he's alone even in the rush he is alone. He holds the
edge of the pavement as he walks along as if he were on a tightrope. Locked in
a dream he's wandering the seams of his
mind he mumbles the same unintelligible mantra over and over. He carries his worldly belongings in a backpack slung over one shoulder, It's
dirty red hue looks like an open wound next to his dark coat. He is incongruous
in the cityscape, unwashed and unclean with his ragged beard torn and soiled
clothes. Like something old, something forgotten in something new. He is not
the only wanderer there are others, they are treated like weeds invading a garden
path in this utopia. They are the shattered ones broken in the creation of this
new world. The orderly folk steer away from him, some do not even see him
sometimes yet he feels their eyes burning in to him encumbering him with sympathy
or hate. Overburdened by the stairs he stops
bring his head up and clearly utters his mantra
'You can never tell if they are angels or hyenas. People
feed you people eat you. Can't, I can't.'
He falls silent as
his head slumps back before leaning forward and walking on
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