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[BRIGGS] [br]I was standing on a street corner.

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A car drew up.

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It was him.

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He asked me the way [br]to Bolsover street.

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I told him, Bolsover street, was[br]in the middle

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of an intricate one-way system.

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It was a one-way system [br]easy enough to get into.

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The only trouble was that, once in, [br]you couldn’t get out.

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I told him his best bet if he really[br]wanted to get to Bolsover Street

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was to take the first left, [br]the first right, second right,

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third on the left,

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keep his eye open [br]for a hardware shop,

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go right round the square, [br]keeping to the inside lane,

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take the second Mews on the right [br]and then stop.

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He'll find himself [br]facing a very tall office block,

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with a crescent courtyard.

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He can take advantage [br]of this tower block,

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he can go round the crescent[br]to come out the other way,

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follow the arrows, [br]go past two sets of traffic lights

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and take the next left indicated by [br]the first green filter he comes across.

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He’s got the Post Office Tower [br]in his vision the whole time.

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All he’s got to do is to reverse [br]into the underground car park,

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change gear, go straight on,[br]and he’ll find himself in Bolsover street:

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with no trouble at all.

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I did warn him, though,

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that he will still be faced[br]with the problem,

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having found Bolsover street, [br]of losing it.

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I mean I told him I knew one or two people

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who’d been wandering up and down [br]Bolsover street for years.

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They wasted their bloody youth there.

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The people who live there

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their faces are grey,

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they’re in a state of despair,

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but nobody pays any attention, you see:

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all people are worried about[br]are their ill-gotten gains.

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I wrote to The Times about it.

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Life At A Dead End, l called it.

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It went for nothing.

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Anyway, I told him that probably[br]the best thing he could do

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was to forget the whole idea[br]of getting to Bolsover Street.

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I remember saying to him,[br]this trip you've got in mind,

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drop it, it could prove fatal.

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But he said he had to deliver a parcel!.

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Anyway, I went[br]to all this trouble with him

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because he had a nice open face.

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He looked like aman[br]who would do good to others himself.

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Normally, I wouldn't give a fuck.