Someone got up in the morning knowing he would do this.
Coming in the front door I can see the back door wide open and beyond that the back gate open to the alley. We’ve been burgled. Or are being burgled. My hands ball into fists and I hiss at Wilma to get her hackles up. Walking down the hall if someone steps from a doorway on my right I’ll throw a left hook, if they step from my left I’ll throw a right. Nobody can parry a punch while being attacked by a heeler.
When they arrive they dust for prints and search for CCTV footage while everywhere our drawers and wardrobes are open-mouthed, screaming silently. Detectives today are stylishly shod in black R.M. Williams boots. Yeah, right. Octogenarian society dames from Toorak are kicking in back doors in Port Melbourne. That would explain the scent of Shalimar in my hallway.
A few days after the break-in I begin to trawl the pawnshops of Prahran and St Kilda, hoping to recognise the earrings she wore to our wedding or the necklace I bought her in Paris. Pawnshops are dusty caves where truant treasure lies in rows spotlit under glass. Down the back a man spills yet another Aldi bag of his “mother’s” heirlooms on the glass. His mother has died more times than a cat, I guess.
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