27 SEPTEMBER 1986, page 41

Gone

You were always so slow to take your leave, Crumbs and tobacco dripping from your clothes As you wheezed up from the depths of an armchair Like the sea-spilling, barnacled Mary......

Distance Lends (too Much) Enchantment

Victoria Glendinning H.G. WELLS: DESPERATELY MORTAL by David C. Smith Yale University Press, £18.50 T his is, sadly, a bad book. H.G. Wells, old rascal and great man, a......

Computer Love

Someone left the mirror running I pulled the plug out it emptied my face and drowned my reflection I tried mouth to mouth the glass broke my reflection died now there's only one......