BELLEVILLE/MENILMONTANT

It’s alleyways up steps and steps down through the park where the Chinese ladies push the air around with thir hands to the loud music while the French woman does determined yoga on the steps next to them. It’s many kinds of louche and artful graffiti. It’s a view of the Tower and some kind of enormous Prisoner style balloon rising in the distance. I am not a number: I am a – comment dit-on?

IT’S A MYSTERY

AND ANOTHER

AND A MEMORY OF ANOTHER ENGLAND. SCHOOL DINNERS.

AND BACK AGIN TO SLEEP HERE NEXT TO CHARLOTTE RAMPLING