Hitotoki-Hankou and Jiangxi Rds, today

by hellowatch

I saw a dead guy today. He was in his early forties, dressed in the collared blues of a workman’s uniform. He was lying on the pavement at the base of an office building. I stopped to watch him from behind the fence. His legs and arms were bent and contorted in such an odd position that to see them, one just had to stop. If you can imagine: his left elbow and right knee were pointed directly upward, as was the limp hand of his right arm, on which his head had fallen, and his left knee was bent and flat on the ground. It looked like he might be a swimsuit model adjusting her pose for a steamy photo shoot. That is, if you block what you’re really seeing and feeling out and keep your shallow wits about you. Continue reading…