Bare Comfort.

[quote]I remember in the street, thinking about old impressions: how a cheap bed and mattress in a bare room can reek of comfort; the park next to the cinema is well lit, aboriginal youth and young adults mill about loudly; around, people go about their business; 8.15 in <placename>, they decide they want what I have- pen me in- and break me out stumbling into the street through churning fists; then hours of lights, voices and concerns and my world becomes basic, which I embrace like an ascetic: the tenuous hold, the old feeling inside, of a cheap bed and a cheap mattress without a thought to spare [/quote] place name removed for privacy