today the friends of the library host a special xmas lunch for under-privileged children in the area. during the event godfrey & myself perform a short morality play he wrote about "hare" (afrikaans - 'hairy') & "smiley"(dionysos & apollo - we've type-cast ourselves, him as the delinquent party-boy & me, uptight; up-right). the kids love it. marlon co-stars as a drug lord king-pin & maureen shines as an oscar-worthy, shebeen queen.

afterward godfrey takes xa home because he misses his playstation & says he hasn't spent xmas with his mother in years, as an excuse.