Dear Mr Hargreaves, I am writing to inform you that
deep deep under the great bramble pile in that allotment
your application was successful. As of today you will be
for which he’d been paying on direct debit ten eleven years
joining millions of other melancholy men across the country
now without so much as picking up a spade or ripping open
in providing a viable alternative to non-sustainable energy
a packet of radish seeds we found aside from the usual
sources. Our company refuses to deny that there are negative
shopping trolley drinks cans syringes and hedgehogs a small
emotional aspects to longing and, as such, we do not insist
square cabinet Japanese in style painted gold and encrusted
that you indulge in it. On the contrary, a very little goes a
with small coloured stones precious perhaps like pearl or else
long long way! Every time you think of her longingly you
the prize was in the time it would have taken to make or
will create enough energy to light up ten bulbs, or to
the eyes that went blind in the process this and other things
keep a garden sprinkler going for fifteen hours. With our
we learnt from the antiques man who ought to could have
numbers growing by the second, this rate of exchange means
fooled us easily given us a crisp twenty pound note
that we do not expect anything of the extraordinary, though
we’d both have been smiling for fools we most certainly are
– if you will permit us to be so bold – we are not beyond
we didn’t even look in the top drawer of the cabinet though
suggesting a timetable. Think of her before you sleep, and
it was a secret door to which we were directed and I
first thing in the morning. Take a longing hour in the afternoon.
did the honours pulling out a photograph of our dad as a child.
(Pierre Monceau and Jean-Pierre Sertin)
