Halfway Street, Sidcup
We did sums at school, Mummy –
You do them like this: look – I showed her.
It turned out she knew already .
One doesn't have to play well, it's enough to play better than your opponent.
No one is so old that he cannot live yet another year, nor so young that he cannot die today.
Immigrant November '63: eight months in London. I pause on the low bridge to watch the pelicans: they float swanlike,…