the thomas hardy book

So I’m lying there on the beach reading a magazine And two male nudes are playing Frisbee. One of them stands right close over me like this ‘Want a game of Frisbee?’ And I say (after a pause, brightly)

‘No thanks.’ I go in the café. There’s a girl (All the girls were stunningly beautiful, from France, Germany mostly) – sitting at a table Immaculately groomed, maybe lets part of a dress fall

To show a bit, you know, just a little Then puts her head forward into the soup and ravels all her hair And tosses it back to make it look dishevelled. It was, you know, all right.

You had to have the dishevelled look in Bali. And the good looking men, Adonis style, A bit too good looking, you know? A little bit too much body sway for Frisbee throwing.

I must give you back the Thomas Hardy book Before it gets covered in yoghurt.

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