TE20 Migrant Mosaics

Disappearing

MAX : after a while

edgar was summoned less and less often to the police and the black car vanished from the front of the house

yet fear continued to stay with martha wrapped around her neck like a scarf in the street she sometimes seemed to hear footsteps behind her back

when she turned around there was no-one sometimes when she was talking on the phone she seemed to hear some kind of rustle she didn’t understand why all emigration requests were turned down but edgar managed to stay calm and just sat there on the sofa pouring brandy in his glass saying

EDGAR : we must carry on waiting

KATHI : just one last joke

so they issue a stamp with ceaușescu’s image ceaușescu goes to the post office in disguise to find out how well the stamp sells it doesn’t sell says the post office clerk why ceaușescu asks it doesn’t stick

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