![]() ![]() The wooden stakes of the caged platform wobbled to the point breaking with the additional weight of the cast-off clutter. The grotesque inventory now included bottles of pills that rattled with the contents inside them, shining scalpels and instruments for cutting through bones, needles and syringes stuck together and hung like ornaments on a Christmas tree, and a stethoscope that had been looped about the decapitated dog's head. Countless objects, many more than I saw the previous day, clattered against the bars of the cage. Following this figure was the formation of ragged men harnessed by ropes to a cage-like vehicle that rolled along on wooden wheels. As the creature passed beneath my window it looked up at me for a moment with that same expression of bland malevolence, and then passed on. ![]() ![]() From the far end of the gray, tunnel-like street, the clown creature strolled in its loose white garments, his egg-shaped head scanning the high houses on either side. ![]()
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