We were at Stratford Station the other day. We were walking towards the Jubilee Line and we saw a few Police officers with dogs by where the barriers used to be. Keep walking, keep walking!, they shouted at us and other commuters. These are scanning dogs! Keep walking! Cold shiver run down my spine. Fuck, I thought to myself, looked at the dogs sniffing my bag and looked around. There were tens and tens of CCTV cameras all over the place. I saw them before but now it all fell into place. We were most probably filmed from the moment we left our house. We touched in with our Oyster cards so our route was being tracked. Our phones were sending signals so our calls were being recorded. The dogs didn’t detect anything but then, who knows? Maybe they detected my disturbing dreams from November of 2009 in which I was being chased by some strange men wearing black suits. I remembered their faces.
We continued our journey in silence. Loads of images kept running through my head. Keep walking! These are scanning dogs! Is THIS really happening?
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In the Museum I managed to calm down. There are things that just Are.
Am I right, Mar?













