Obsession

Obsession The pianist Albert has got a job in Loulé last time I saw him in Faro and fell over a pollard, he said he was not my father. When he spotted me he ran into a café, they let him run through the kitchen into the back, a dead end; I waited for him there. “If you don´t stop following me I will have to call the police, I´M NOT YOUR FATHER.” To mollify him I said: “ I know you are not, but I do admire your piano playing. ”This pleased him and we had a drink and he told me he came from Yugoslavia, had wanted to be a concert pianist, but there was no money, so he ended up as a café pianist… just as my father I thought but said nothing… then he had to leave for work, saw him walk out of my life just as my father did, there was nothing I could do to stop this man who refused to be my dad.