Title:
'' (2009)

Author:
Endre Ruset

Publisher:
tekstopia.no

Place:
Jens Bjelkesgate 16B in Oslo

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Jens Bjelkesgate is a mainly residential street in eastern Oslo. This text was written by the poet Endre Ruset, for the Norwegian tekstopia writing competition in the fall of 2008.

Now you're the one walking here, past Lakkegata school on the way home to a shining room in a shared apartment, on the way to a party with a bottle of wine in the one hand, on the way away never to return: London, Paris, Brussels, Alta, Nowhere. Maybe this street, this stretch, just after the Botanical Garden, between the junction with Sarsgate and the junction with Lakkegata, is just a vague memory of something morbid you read in the newspaper, the rape of a fifteen year old girl, a brutal assault on a retired person, or just something trivial; how the man who passed you by with his dog, a cocker spaniel, was swaying in his walk. It's snowing. It's cloudy. The sun is shining and it's hot. There's a hail storm. My voice holds four seasons and any weather, it will always stay here and never know who you are. And yet something may be staring at you just now, from a window you can not locate, unreal, like Lee Harvey Oswald in the dark.