I was having a bath in Horton hospital when in crawled a cockroach the size of a cat, its antenna sniffed the air. I felt it watching me. Poor thing I thought it does not know that it is in the presence of a living god, a person who through revolutionary struggle had been proclaimed Emperor of Persia, a time traveller extraordinaire who travelled through centuries of human conflict and met the first philosophers Adam and Eve, whose bones were coated with platinum made from the bird of hope that was in Pandora's box towards the beginning of time. A person who blessed the mass in the phlegm that they themselves had spat on me. A person who as an immortal being was once a penguin in the Falklands living on fish caught in the effervescent sea.
But the cockroach was not a person just a bug and when I left that hospital so was I.
Anonymous