I will walk everywhere with my toy camera
Which only photographs ghosts
Past the culvert and down the road
Along the perimeter wall of the colony
Where a long ago boy
Hung himself in despair
Over long ago exam results -
The first dead body I saw.
Past the house of a boy
I smoked dope and listened to grunge with
In the 90s
The girl across the street he introduced me to
Fancied me, he later said. I never saw her again.
Past open doors into 40 year old houses
A Chinese restaurant. An ironing shop.
Back in my lair I scroll through the images
Seeing myself. Only myself.
This is what I wanted