He remembers a train platform, a laugh, a promise—now those ghosts ride his shoulders. The city feeds on memory, chews it thin. He pulls a cigarette, lights without thinking; smoke builds like a small cloud in the halo of lamp-post light. His eyes flick to the alley where the old scoreboard bleeds years of faded names. Names that meant something once.
He remembers a train platform, a laugh, a promise—now those ghosts ride his shoulders. The city feeds on memory, chews it thin. He pulls a cigarette, lights without thinking; smoke builds like a small cloud in the halo of lamp-post light. His eyes flick to the alley where the old scoreboard bleeds years of faded names. Names that meant something once.