Oscar Wilde wrote: “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
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Wednesday, December 10, 2008
rain falls on a cobbled lane
Standing quite alone near the doorway of a rented room above a quiet, cobbled lane adjacent to the canal in Bruges you watched the rain trickle down a cracked window pane behind which nothing moved except the wisp of smoke rising from a French cigarette held lightly between two fingers of your left hand, trembling almost imperceptibly. Your right hand rested on the glass, pressed against its cold glaze, unable - perhaps unwilling - to wave as you watched her go.
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