There Is Nothing Like a Dame

THERE IS NOTHING LIKE A DAME – and there is no dame like a building society or a bank! There may be nothing like me, but I assure you the world would have gone to hell but for organised sex - if boys and girls were left to nature’s provenance, a person like me would be nowhere at all. Oh, I know how to milk attraction and stabilise what is essentially of short duration: if boys and girls were left to innocence there’d be no delighting old men. If that sounds unfair, I didn’t make the rules - all this spontaneity leaves everyone very poor, the Church, the magistrates and the building societies are all depending on the regulation of love. It’s the people who won’t smile who bother me, hard fitted, easy suited, do they think it’s all for free? (C) Rosemarie Rowley From IN MEMORY OF HER (2008)