I was four and fell with my scooter
down the stairs with the marble tiles
at home in the sitting room and I fell
hard and with my head back to front on
the tiles and I screamed and Mum saw that
blood was flowing from my head and
Mum screamed and I screamed and Mum ran
into the street to get help and it
was still hurting and our Egyptian
neighbour opposite knew how to make
the pain go away she said she knew the cure
she said that was with coffee from the
coffee package she said and she rubbed the
coffee into the dark hole on my head
and I felt the sting of the coffee
in my entire head and in my body
and it still hurt a great deal and
since then I never drink coffee
and I hardly sleep