we went t...

we went to look at apartments today. one had a balcony that overlooked a dumpster which doubled as a fire escape, another had hallways that reminded you of a steve mcqueen prison movie, and the last, had windows that looked onto brick walls reassembling some sort of internment camp. a tenant told me the government used the building as a fallout shelter for civil servants during the cold war. he proceeded to point to a door leading into the ground in the middle of parking lot. in the past week, time was spent in an office of foreign objects where a man used his softest voice. One floor up, another had an office with windows that might very will see everything. the same man used the word existential while adjusting his lime green cravat. his tie was the same colour i used to shade in damascus. he grinned when i answered his questions, i did not appreciate that. but he did give me a a list of names that may prove to be more useful than the apartment designed to survive a nuclear winter. that, i did appreciate.