Olive the Jerk 2

X The freezing Mistral wind was blowing over the city. The central district, where I had booked a room, was offering the vision of an end of the Western civilisation : neglected buildings, pervasive poverty, invading dirtiness, loads of homeless, starving migrants begging for some food... Was that what was remaining from the second town of France ? A kind of Third World city? Add to this that Zemmour , the neo-fascist guy who would probably become the next French president, was also in town, blaming all politicians and shouting after fifty years of French social-democratic carelessness, and the punk frame was all set down.  Lollipop Music Shop Between two wobbly buildings covered with scaffolds and forestays, the little Lollipop Music Shop   x was still standing up, facing up the global collapse. Rock'n'roll was said to be the last adventure of the modern world, wasn't it ? The shop was the kind of friendly, warm place that immediately made me feel better : goo...