physicist
it was in the 2nd term.
he arrived from
nowhere;
The ratio of the circumference of a circle
to its diameter.
he took a room next to mine,
he was big
slouched always
never drank
moved like a lizard in the sun
was anti-social,
he shaved at most once a week
when he spoke it was loud and
exaggerated.
he’d moved out from a place where nobody liked him.
he had a brilliant mind,
knew some secrets of the world
but never talked about it.
we often played snooker - I couldn’t beat him,
he would say I was ugly
and I would tell him to get out more.
Somehow we got on.
he spent his entire educational grant on a 40” TV which thundered
during the tense scenes,
and exams.
he once worked in America in a hotel kitchen,
eventually the head chef attacked him with a knife,
he couldn’t understand why.
in the end he made so much noise
stayed in his room too much and slouched so often that I hated
him,
he moved out very quietly one morning.
I helped him with his TV.
The last time I saw him was by accident,
he said we should play a game sometime,
I smiled and agreed,
It was the first time we did that.
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