PERSIAN HOOKAH

    During the 1970's, I collected all sorts of paraphernalia like this.....the depicted hookah, made from ancient iron....inlaid with silver, is the only one that i kept. ....I bought it in London, from a rich Euro-trash hippie that i met in an opium den, a few miles from Windsor Palace.....where, incidentally, we viewed QEII, standing in a window, smoking a cigarette! I hitched a ride to Slough, where we scored some material, from a groundskeeper at Saint Laurence's Church, to waft from the beautiful instrument..... later, I had to attend a dinner at Lloyds of London, and view the Debeers collection of coloured diamonds......through somewhat of a purple haze......

Star Of The Sea by Stellamara