rusted

“I got so little playing time at Oregon,” he joked, “the zipper on my warm-up jacket rusted shut.”

The bottle stopper was cork, which had expanded over time and stuck to the glass, while the wire which held it in place had rusted away.

The road is flanked on each side by rusted four-barred fences, behind which lie a couple of buildings with corrugated iron roofs.

“I didn’t realize at the time,” she admitted, “that it was like putting a high-speed train on a rusted train track, and that the money doesn’t flow, and the systems are very broken.”

A rusted metal contraption sits surrounded by plants.