Crossing the carpark of earthly dilemmas, Rhiannon Really satisfied Snickersbar, third of her name, paused before the bastion of discounted accessorisations, its rarefied air dry with artificial coolth. How long the days were now, and how short the night’s satin PJs this season. Fashion as with weather, had taken another wheel-turn; the innovative passports of youth belongings reconstituted into a bus pass of togetherness. Consumer-grade congruence within the accessibility – excessibility duality, teeth filed flat. Transmutation. Symbols of yore pressed into graphics, unburdened of meaning in solvent rivers of the Global South. Where was that exactly? Somewhere near the equator? Hard to say. Was lobbying from Big Dictionary responsible for the decline in the permanence of terms? She would have to do her own research. Imagine her relief on finding a bench vacant, anti-sleep armrests segmenting its swollen flesh-body. Still cautious, she ran a SWOT analysis. STRENGTHS: tensile, structural WEAKNESSES: communal, lack of economic imperative OPPORTUNITIES: A state of half-rest calling to her in the memory of a breeze spilled from a square vent. How quaint, a square vent, the kind with concentric fins, relic of simpler times. THREATS: nostalgia, romanticisation of an imagined past.