Found!

I found Reggie swinging on railings with a song to be sung. Rap, in his case, a rap to explore what he half knows or doesn’t, fears but doesn’t understand, using language picked up from others, like the lager cans he finds saves to help his new friend, Ernie. Ernie is a grumpy allotment holder suffering with slugs. It is the beauty of the white trumpet flowers adorning the chain link fence which lures Reggie over the road to see them up close. It is Sonia coming out of the station after a difficult day at work who sees him and thinks that he’s serenading his lady-love. And so it goes on …

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