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The Trade

by Dean Kyte

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A park, an overpass, and a Pinteresque dialogue in a Melbourne suburb: a humorous failure of communication turns into a brief comedy of menace in this poetic short story by Melbourne writer Dean Kyte.

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—Look, you either have it or you don’t. If you don’t have it, that’s O.K. We can take it out in trade.

—In trade? What trade? I don’t have that either.

—You don’t have what?

—Anything to trade. I told you; I haven’t got it.

—You haven’t got it.

—No, I haven’t got it.

—Well, it’s no big deal. Spag is not unreasonable. If you haven’t got it, you haven’t got it. If it can’t be gotten one way, it can be gotten another. We’ll take it out in trade.

—But I haven’t got a trade.

—Look, I think we’ve got a failure of communication here. You say you haven’t got a trade.

—That’s right. Can’t you give me more time?

—Look, we’ll come to that in a minute. I just want to be sure we’ve got each other. You say you haven’t got a trade.

—Yes, I haven’t got anything to trade.

—Right. That’s where we’re not getting each other. If you’ve got nothing to trade, we can’t get it from you.

—But if you give me more time; a week, say—

—Look, we’ll come to the time element in a minute. Where we’re failing to get each other is on the trade issue. Now look, Spag’s not an unreasonable fellow. If you haven’t got it to give and we can’t get it from you, we can get it another way. We’ll take it out in trade.

—But I don’t have a trade—

—You don’t have a trade, but I do. You’re out of time. Spag told me to get it from you. You haven’t got it, so now I’m going to give it to you.

credits

released June 6, 2022
Dean Kyte: “Football siren, distant”

Dean Kyte: “Footsteps, underpass 002_sd”

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Dean Kyte Melbourne, Australia

Dean Kyte is a writer, filmmaker and flâneur.

His CD of prose poetry and literary crime fiction, “The Spleen of Melbourne”, is available on BC.

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