Now with surprise and sadness, I have realised–

Thanks and hoping to hear from you soonest.Rita Benson ‘

sunlight glinting on their sparkling lap-tops..in cool rooms, breeze moving the curtainslike a seductive dancer,a thousand hands of hope,fingers of illusion,tap out letters of beseechmentto the greater worldpolitely, generously, asking for supportto release for a substantial sharethe huge but tied-up inheritanceof the late father who so sadly…and hope springs eternalas the gullible gulp and gaspthis…

you’d abandoned long agosuddenly goes clickety out of nowhere, and throws upan image you didn’t particularly wantto remember. And you wonder whyit’s still there, and why now, and why then?I was cast as the visiting celeb in Midsville, whenall I wanted was to drink it all inwithout being anything excepta privileged observer, fly on the…

It’s all world trade: their export crop isin high demand – it’s opium poppies,passed via equivocal Pakistan,who somehow fail to impose a banon this corruption, which is widerthan any doings of Al Quaeda:the most effective tool, the best,for the moral self-destruction of the West.

And that’s all really:no need to dress it up,make a poem of it,claim it, as ifI thought of it first..And anyway it’s personal:you and I could spend daysdiscussing what the last word means;finish up hating each other.It happens. And they havea rifle in their hand, a bomb.It’s a divine game,the game God plays.You know the…

what’s in a name? A meal by any other namewould smell as good…In 1765, M. Boulanger (well named) , a humblesoup-vendor, opened an establishment,whose soups and broths he rightly called‘restaurant’, for they were restorative…Watch this old French film: its very flickeringand jerking seems to give it life: waitersin their long aprons, whisk in and outto…