#disgusting cliche and excessive alliteration ? call the police

[misfortuning]

@newspapcr │ (ʜᴇɑᴅ ɪɴ тʜᴇ сʟᴏᴜᴅѕ)

      The man stands in the middle of the sidewalk, utterly unaware of his surroundings, gaze sky-bound. Perhaps he’d caught sight of a bird and become lost in the brilliant, boundless blue above, or forgotten something just as he remembered it and now struggles to recall it once more. A tumble of white hair brushes his neck, supporting the lost memory supposition with suggested age, yet his build and posture imply youth and strength. 

      (The man stands easily, unwisely, statuesque. With face upturned his eyes focus homeward—what he knows as home. But it is closed to him now, now until he has fulfilled his duty, burned into him as surely as he has burned from the day he was brought into existence. As surely as this gravity shackles his form, holds him down.)