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My Policeman

Bethan Roberts

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“I laughed. ‘For a policeman, you’re very romantic.’ ‘For an artist, you’re very afraid,’ he said.”

“We should live here.’ After just two days of the possibilities of Venice, I said, ‘We should live here.’ And Tom’s answer was, ‘We should fly to the moon.’ But he was smiling.”

“Dunno much about art." "You don't have to. That's the wonderful thing about it. It's about reacting to it. Feeling it, if you like. It's not really anything to do with knowledge”

“You were looking at Tom without smiling, with an expression of deep absorption. You considered him, in the same way that others in the room were considering the displays.”

“DUM-de, went my trochaic heart.”

“We sat together in a front pew. Utterly alone. And we kissed. There in the presence of all the saints and angels, we kissed.”

“(...) and of course the sea, always different, always the same.”

“Then he smiled. ‘Were you really dreaming of me?”

“You’re going to make a wonderful portrait,’ I said. ‘Quite wonderful.”

“And I want him by your side, too. I hope that he will join us in your room, if only for a little while. I hope that he will come and at least look at you – really look at you – and see what I can see: that despite everything, you still love him. I hope this will break his silence.”

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