Our distinguished sponsor today is Hugo Williams, born 1942 (England). The poem "Siren Song" is taken from the collection "Billy's Rain ", faber and faber, 2001.

Siren Song
I phone from time to time, to see if she's
changed the music on her answerphone.
'Tell me in two words', goes the recording,
'what you were going to tell in a thousand'.

I peer into that thought, like peering out
to sea at night, hearing the sound of waves
breaking on rocks, knowing she is there,
listening, waiting for me to speak.

Once in a while she'll pick up the phone
and her voice sings to me out of the past.
The hair on the back of my neck stands up
as I catch her smell for a second.

From Page Six
Top fashion photographer Terry Richardson has a new muse. The lucky lensman is dating Elite model Susan Eldridge, whom he shot for the upcoming Eres lingerie and Sisley campaigns. But alluring Eldridge, born 1979, should be careful. Richardson's ex-wife, former model Nikki Uberti, once portrayed him as a heartless cad in a short film called "Faux Pas," which used live cats and stuffed animals to re-enact actual events in their marriage. Everyone parties too much, and when Uberti's character comes down with cancer, Richardson's character deserts her. In real life, Richardson left Uberti and took up with model Shalom Harlow.