England wandering: Showing

35mm film scan photo by Anna Block

I got into conversation with a stranger in Manchester and he took off his shirt to show me his birthmark. He told me he had been drinking for 30 hours by then. I guess we both felt somewhat meaningless and lost: me - two years away from home doing my MA, him - a fatigued and bored office clerk. It was a moment of pure and playful connection, and for a second we probably were not astray any more.