My Thoughts Exactly

by Allen Lily

I felt like a beating heart and pile of skin, but nothing more: nothing substantial or filled up or whole.

Hear My Song, my mum’s first film, by the way, was a success. Diana, Princess of Wales came to the premiere. I was a flower girl and gave her a posy. Alfie had a box of handkerchiefs to give her, but somehow he got his knob caught in his trouser zip moments before meeting her. He was crying when she approached him. ‘Are you OK?’ she asked him. ‘No,’ he replied. ‘I’ve got my willy caught in my zip.’