The bottom of the escalator where the treads seamlessly disappear is fast approaching, and the brown boy slowly watches and it steps at the final moment. It gives him a nostalgic and childlike joy. The brown boy walks over to the bench in the middle of the platform, and sits and waits. A white man walks by him. He has a passing fantasy, that the man would call him something biting and disgusting, xenophobic, maybe even racist. He buries it.


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