0030 Your 'My Life' Exercise Book...

Buy a child's red-covered 'My Exercise Book' like the one you bought all those years ago to build a bridge - now you realise - a warm reassuring bridge between school and home with its firm hand-rail at both ends; the river flowing so fast, so powerful, so beautiful between those different banks in the blank pages of that book with its reassuring tables on the back cover which speak of laws which you may never read then with the sharpened pencil and the smell of cedar flakes faling from the pencil-sharpener sweet and haunting to your nose and breathing heavier now in this exciting, daunting task, your head nearer the paper than old schoolteachers would approve and pencil gripped as firmly as you would your life write so carefully on the first white page as if the beginning holds the whole story intended but as yet unfurled, 'My Life'..