Losing It by Moira Burke

Author:Moira Burke
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Text Publishing Company
Published: 2017-04-20T04:00:00+00:00

You end up going to the baths anyway at least it gets you out of the house. You take the short-cut way today, the back way around corners hot streets walking in the road you can dawdle counting the steps from house to house looking at the gardens sniffing roses. The house with lions perched on either side of the gate. The house with grapevines like a jungle. The house on the corner with the big cactus and stones all around, lots and lots, beige and cream and soft-looking. There’s an old grandma who’s out there sometimes standing in the stones with a scarf over her head and socks and thongs just standing there still, dark eyes with a shine on them not looking at you. Once you heard a sheep bleating behind the back fence you think it was a sheep you’re not that sure you didn’t know what it was, it was a hot shimmery day and that noise like a baby but not coming from behind the back fence eerie in the heat. You told Linda, she reckons it must have been a sheep what else could it have been? they would have killed it they don’t buy meat from the butcher’s they do it themselves they’re Muslims. She reckons the grandma’s a witch. You wish you had a grandma. You’ve never had one. Your mum’s mum went up the shop one day and a big black Rolls Royce that didn’t even stop knocked her over and killed her, your mum was only fourteen that was in Newtownards in Ireland and your dad didn’t have any parents he was brought up in an orphanage in Liverpool so you’ve got no relatives on his side. It’d be good to have grandparents you could go and visit them for a holiday get presents from them at Christmas money on your birthday and you could learn how to knit. Linda’s nanna who’s really a nonna is teaching her how to knit. You wish Linda was going to the baths too but she’s going with Sylvio now and she’s over at his place today but she might show up later. Things are different since she’s been going with him instead of Rocka you don’t see that much of her except at school mostly. You don’t like Sylvio not since that time you were coming home from the baths and he drove by in his station-wagon and stopped and said he’d drive you home. He didn’t drive you home he drove down to the horse paddock instead and said it’s all right we’ll just smoke a joint. You said come on take me home and he said relax have a smoke. He passed you the joint so you had some even though he’d pigsucked. So are you missing Dave? he said. I’m not going with him any more, you told him, you know that Sylvio, and you looked out seeing the grass noticing how it’s not green really but bits of yellow and lilac and blue waving about.

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