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In the play, the girl says, why is it that when I remember the garden it is so magical? It was hell back then, wasn't it hell?
I go up and run a hot bath, as hot as I can bear and wash off all the things that are against me. I allow the room to become a jungle, until there are two floating lights instead of one, two moons.
And under the water they are clanking like miners. Go and have a cup of tea, she tells me, when I get out and drip all over her new carpet. Once, Dmitri went swimming in the English sea and came out alive, wrapped himself in a towel like a child and put a big wet hand on my head.
Alastair comes to Bristol with a list of pubs; the Printer's Arms, the Reckless Engineer, the Rope Walk and the Swan With Two Necks. I wish we could go into the printer's arms, he says.
I go up and run a hot bath, as hot as I can bear and wash off all the things that are against me. I allow the room to become a jungle, until there are two floating lights instead of one, two moons.
And under the water they are clanking like miners. Go and have a cup of tea, she tells me, when I get out and drip all over her new carpet. Once, Dmitri went swimming in the English sea and came out alive, wrapped himself in a towel like a child and put a big wet hand on my head.
Alastair comes to Bristol with a list of pubs; the Printer's Arms, the Reckless Engineer, the Rope Walk and the Swan With Two Necks. I wish we could go into the printer's arms, he says.