Down the rails, a touch of white
steam spooned itself on the
horizon. At the sight of it, the
stationmasters boy whistled and
now the stationmaster came out
with apple crates and forms to
sign. An outlander waiting
aboard his coffee wagon
dropped out of his seat and
talked with the stationmaster who
listened but shook his head.
There were others but KEVIN
mostly noticed the corpses of
several dead animals--driven
down from Kikuyuland by white
settlers, brought here to these
doorsteps of Valhalla, seemingly
for the purpose of dying upon
arrival--that fumed in great
heaping piles of gristle and bone
astride the station. The dock
about had been made with
planks cut from exotic trees,
railed up from Mombasa, laid
out long and irregular to form a
rough platform over the swampy
mess, and a black man now
stood here, long cock in hand,
pissing openly on the planks.
Yea, this land was a chosen one,
and KEVIN wondered when all
this too would burn.
steam spooned itself on the
horizon. At the sight of it, the
stationmasters boy whistled and
now the stationmaster came out
with apple crates and forms to
sign. An outlander waiting
aboard his coffee wagon
dropped out of his seat and
talked with the stationmaster who
listened but shook his head.
There were others but KEVIN
mostly noticed the corpses of
several dead animals--driven
down from Kikuyuland by white
settlers, brought here to these
doorsteps of Valhalla, seemingly
for the purpose of dying upon
arrival--that fumed in great
heaping piles of gristle and bone
astride the station. The dock
about had been made with
planks cut from exotic trees,
railed up from Mombasa, laid
out long and irregular to form a
rough platform over the swampy
mess, and a black man now
stood here, long cock in hand,
pissing openly on the planks.
Yea, this land was a chosen one,
and KEVIN wondered when all
this too would burn.
drums, drums in the deep ... they are
coming.