The Lemon Affair

The man I am going to talk about here was a major influence in my life. He wasn't a lover and, at the most impotant times, he was scarcely even a friend. He was a leader. He had charisma. He did the most miraculous thing i ever saw another human being do. I t was back in the eighties, you shouild have seen him go. In his time, he had the most powerful constituency I have ever witnessed, at his command. He never took that responsibilty lightly and he brought peace and positive energy into a situation where there might very well have been violence. He is the only Great Man i have ever known of.
But when the dust all cleared, the rest of us had jobs and the Great Man was still on the dole. He was still doing the work for the people who had trusted him, so he didn't have time to get a job. So a few of us got together to do a benefit for him and this is what we did. We challenged him to eat 15 lemons in under a minute and we charged people £10 a head to come and watch. We made him eat lemons until he puked up in front of us and we all said we'd put upm £20 to watch him eat cat food next week. It was supposed to be a satire, but we really did do this.