Armed

Cars often conceal their occupants with their tinted windows. Some activities however, necessitate an open window.

There are two innocent subjects here. There’s the hand that shows it has not yet been employed, and there’s the new beautiful yet unsmoked cigarette.

A brand new cigarette is a thing of beauty. Held by such a hand as this, what could go awry?

By Five Dock, from Iron Cove Bridge, this newness already will have passed. All that whiteness will have gone away. There will be nothing much to spin between the fingers.