24 DECEMBER 1988, Page 80

Lullaby for a Man Asleep in Brewer Street

I wish you sweeter dreams than you can buy in Soho from Kinky Madam Jo-Jo at Adults Only Peepshow.

I wish you more convincing and better, more entrancing visions than Real Naked Girls all Nonstop Go-Go Dancing.

I wish the Double Bedshow, the Rentaboy Arcade, the Fully Frontal Sideshow were plunged into the shade by an authentic Heaven which each unfolding rose in Golden Square announces, where Second Childhood goes.

I wish the marble doorstep whereon you take your nap would soften, and you waken in your lost mother's lap with all your nightmares broken and bloodshot eyes, grown bright, see shameless angels dancing like dustmotes in the light.

Anna Adams