All of my life I have stared at you, listened to you...and yet here you are and you are a complete stranger".
Already the crowds seem darker and more hurried and the slang grows stranger and stranger, and you do not understand what you love, yet here, rounding a corner in mild sunset, is the world again, wide-eyed as a child holding up a toy even you can fix.
In case you missed it yesterday (why haven't you subscribed yet?), here is Andy Bull's Spin: Forty years of ODI cricket Pakistan won their first Test series since 2006, drawing the second test at the Basin Reserve in Wellington, to win the series 1-0.
I'm aware of the fact that you have a child, yet here you are again, with another actor, pretending to be prostitute".
Here, for instance, is Bush the huckster-showman, wielding a distorting funhouse mirror to vastly magnify the small, torpid rat labelled Saddam Hussein, and inquiring of his audience, "Are you scared enough yet?" Here's Bin Laden on his prayer mat, addressing a shopping-list of requests to God, and finding that George W Bush is the answer to all his prayers.
I don't think you would, and yet here we are, after Austin Wilkerson did so maliciously and without forethought murder a part of his victim.
Of course you wouldn't, yet here we are being buffeted by the likes of Cheney, Wolfowitz, Bremer, Kristol and other architects and apologists of a policy so fraught with miscalculation that in another setting it would qualify for criminal prosecution.
This was your idea and yet here you are, thanking me for inviting you into my "lovely home".
Yet here you have Shimon Peres talking nukes with a nutcase white supremacist government.
Yet, here you are, a promoter in the supposedly bloodthirsty world of bareknuckle boxing.
