That Reminds Me by Derek Owusu

Author:Derek Owusu [Owusu, Derek]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781529119053
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2019-11-14T00:00:00+00:00

Act 3

If you lined up TVs tuned to news channels, the flames would blow through the sets. No respite from the pings of broadcasting messages – BlackBerries finally used for the business of organisation – the age of spectacle has no limits, no finish applied to the awards handed out for partaking in the farce of revolution. But we saw the shortlist days afterwards, each face boxed in preparation for the body. Before the skies could rumble like the throttle of a god preparing to speak over what it foresaw as a London pulse starting to slow, I had saved twenty new numbers in my phone, people I recognised in the paper but hardly spoke to, someone had to, although the entire ends would probably see it for themselves soon. The day after the riots, I walked through the streets, wondering where the first bottle was thrown, and had the urge to repeat the action to believe I too had been initiated into history. Dreaming I’d fallen from the mind of Matheson, I carried on walking through the silent district, knowing the roads felt betrayed – dole money not paid so no smoke reached up, as if expelled from the appendix of modern houses, blown from bookie doorways – but the pavement still had ashes to sate its appetite, leftovers from last night’s part piecemeal. Wandering around, I looked for signs of life and imagined the animated street was hiding in the only bus in sight, its black body tattooed by flames not enough to deter my imagination – they’ll take that away too, I thought – and as my memory comes back from these moments, I’m grateful for the words: ‘Where were you?’

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