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Happy Birthday, Dominic! Audrey ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dominic Fox" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 5:10 PM Subject: Snapshot 29 Oct 03 > Tomorrow I will be 29 > for the first time - > but this is a poem for today. > Today I am 28, ride home > on the X7 from Northampton to Leicester: > icy darkness without, numb > knees and buttocks within, > Locke's treatises on government > in a critical edition unopened > on my lap. A half-hour > doze as the X7 folds the intervening > null space between stops > around the rumble in its innards. > > Kettering passes, and Market Harborough. > It is quarter of an hour > from here > to the Owl at Oadby, then the London road's > sequence of pubs and Indian restaurants; > the shop called "In Harmony", that sells > marital aids, videos and mags; > the railway station's facade, > another sex > shop on the left up Granby street. > Get off at the Haymarket, bus > again - the 25 - to Melton turn. > > The neon diyas > welcome Lakshmi up the Belgrave road. > Harmony is attained as a husband, > 28, comes home > to his wife and children: > Oliver bhai and Ruby ben, bathed > and in pyjamas, ready > for their beds of dreams and bedbugs > too somnolent to bite. > > Dominic >