Heidemarie Al Richter was walking the streets of London<\/p>\n
Seemingly lost<\/p>\n
She was an Hungarian national and was unaware of the geography of the large city<\/p>\n
Everything seemed so mysterious<\/p>\n
So she turned to the paving stones for help<\/p>\n
But received no guidance<\/p>\n
Although she did notice near to the drains two poems almost obscured<\/p>\n
London Rhymes<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
Isapara isapara<\/i><\/p>\n
Why is the street so narrer <\/i><\/p>\n
It used to me taxi a treat <\/i><\/p>\n
But now its been reduced to just free feet<\/i><\/p>\n
London Rhymes<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
In Trafalgar Square <\/i><\/p>\n
People often go bare <\/i><\/p>\n
In them two damn great fountains <\/i><\/p>\n
Me and Al <\/i><\/p>\n
Mandy and Sal <\/i><\/p>\n
Have always preferred to climb mountains <\/i><\/p>\n
She thought the poems poor but was rewarded when the paving stones started to speak<\/p>\n
They discussed their Hungarian ancestry with her<\/p>\n
She was from a small town on the Serbian border<\/p>\n
Whereas the paving stones originated in Budapest<\/p>\n
Heidemarie Al Richter sat down and shared a glass of wine with her new friends<\/p>\n
They chatted for an hour until it started to rain<\/p>\n
It rains frequently in London<\/p>\n
She was aware of this and had purchased an umbrella at the airport<\/p>\n
Which she gave to the paving stones<\/p>\n
As a parting gift<\/p>\n
Paving stones on the whole do not like getting wet<\/p>\n
Soon Heidemarie Al Richter found a hotel in Kensington<\/p>\n
It was called<\/p>\n
The Hotel Kensington<\/i><\/p>\n
She booked the largest room which had a king size bed and a view of the park beyond<\/p>\n
It also had a bathroom finished in powder blue and pink<\/p>\n
So she decided to take a bath choosing the deep blue bathwater from the menu<\/p>\n
Magenta was her first choice but this colour had been discontinued<\/p>\n
Her bathroom had no door and as she bathed the hotel maid listed the names of libraries on the long steamed mirror<\/p>\n
The hotel maid who was from Peru then stepped into her guest\u2019s bath and discussed the libraries she had visited in North-West London<\/p>\n
The mutually decided to visit the main library in Neasden because it was opposite a candle shop<\/p>\n
And its wall were covered with the writings of Cornelius Tacitus<\/i><\/p>\n
It was as she was showering with the hotel maid that she noticed than on the maids back there were the addresses of many libraries tattooed in red and mauve<\/p>\n
Both in the north-west and in the east of the city<\/p>\n
Libraries of Lebanon<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
After a night of love the hotel maid left for Peru on a silver bus and Heidemarie Al Richter made her way to Neasden by tube<\/p>\n
She became hopelessly lost as before and ended up in Canning Town where she met a sign writer whose tag was Stan-Les Steel<\/i><\/p>\n
He showed her examples of his work<\/p>\n
Visit the Halls of St Paul\u2019s <\/i><\/p>\n
Obey the rules in St Paul\u2019s <\/i><\/p>\n
Velvet stools are for sale in St Paul\u2019s<\/i><\/p>\n
Were the outstanding examples<\/p>\n
He drove a navy blue Volkswagen with pale blue stars affixed to the roof and apart from being a sign writer he was also an expert in animal locomotion<\/p>\n
Heidemarie Al Richter kissed him on the lips as she considered him the prettiest boy in the world<\/p>\n
It started to rain again<\/p>\n
Heidemarie Al Richter embraced the rain <\/i><\/p>\n
Stan-Les Steel embraced the rain <\/i><\/p>\n
The Hungarian visitor suggested that he should return to her hotel room as the hotel maid had left for Peru<\/p>\n
He declined noting that he was gay and that although she was lovely she had no spice in her<\/p>\n
As they parted he gave her a small gift a rift of paper which read<\/p>\n
The Mexican war of 1861-67 was in its final stages by 1866<\/i><\/p>\n
Britain,Spain and France had sent troops in to challenge the new president <\/i><\/p>\n
President Juarez <\/i><\/p>\n
Who had founded the republic and refused to honour foreign debts <\/i><\/p>\n
Britain and Spain made peace in 1862 <\/i><\/p>\n
Leaving Napoleon the Third to continue the war <\/i><\/p>\n
And impose an unpopular puppet emperor <\/i><\/p>\n
Maximilian of Austria <\/i><\/p>\n
In 1867 the United States forced the French to withdraw<\/i><\/p>\n
Leaving Maximilian of Austria to his fate <\/i><\/p>\n
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