Some people stopped to talk about the day as if we’d already met before, while others ignored me as if they’d had enough of passersby
There is an art to losing yourself and it’s sometimes a difficult trick: my mind is always faithfully tagging along somewhere just out of sight like a dog going out for a sniff but still keeping track of my whereabouts. And the loss doesn’t have to involve an unseemly struggle with my identity, or even the embarrassment of losing my way – although I’m sure that can be part of it.
It seemed like a simple task: meaningless and yet something to do. But, once outside, the scenery kept whispering in my ears as I wandered along streets so tree-lined and green they could have been forest paths if not for the parked cars. Let’s face it, trees – especially elms – are leathered gods and their bark that day were so deeply wrinkled that I had to reach out and feel the texture and explore the depth.
But I wondered as I passed if they would even deign to look at the houses I had seen on other streets. Houses so bereft of charm, their innards had likely digested entire lives and whose fading doors not only barred entry but made escape unlikely, too. I asked myself what the inhabitants would see if they dared peek out of the cracked and dirty windows.
But the museum was like nothing I’d seen since I was a child. It was a full-sized mock-up of a town with stores, homes, a turn-of-the-century police station complete with its little jail, and even a railway station with a puffing steam engine. I sauntered through kitchens and a Chinese laundry, a blacksmith shop, hardware store, even a funeral parlour with the organ wheezing out a hymn when it saw me standing looking at the coffin lying beside it.
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