Anton's Pique

By dawn we were fading fast

Anton had smoked the last Gauloises

Hours before in a fit of pique

When we stopped him from going to sleep

B.R. sometime in 1998

The picture is of German character actor Anton Diffring (20 October 1918 - 20 May 1989) as Fabian in Francois Truffaut's Fahrenheit 451