For my last birthday, Dad bought me a pocket-sized Collins English Dictionary. It would only fit in a pocket that had been specially designed.

Write a diary, imagining that you are trying to make an old person jealous.

I took a photo of us, mid-embrace. When I am old and alone I will remember that I once held something truly beautiful.

There will be birds and if they write your name in the sky then you can get on the buses and if they don't you have to die on the floor.

...I want to grab her collarbones as if they were handlebars.

For my last birthday, Dad bought me a pocket-sized Collins English Dictionary. It would only fit in a pocket that had been specially designed.

Exercise II. Write a diary, imagining that you are trying to make an old person jealous. I have written an example to get you started: Dear Diary, I spent the morning admiring my skin elasticity. God alive, I feel supple.