I hated writing and I hated reading.
DG Readers and Benjamin Zephaniah, The Guardian, 14 October 2014 source ↗
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Growing old alone.
In 1985, in St Elizabeth, Jamaica, sitting on the veranda with my grandmother, people-watching, and listening to poetry and local gossip.
Not having children.
I tested whistles for the police.
I was at an Aston Villa match and when Villa scored this stranger of a supermodel kissed me.
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