Rear view _ Phil Kay
A journey from hell for the luckiest man alive.
oday was fathomable. I could fathom it. Which is to say that I could think about it and. with intrinsic ponder. explain it. It has just ended with the one pound cheesecake and coffee I have just eaten. So this is all about being lucky and how to arrive at the seam of it. in at the
face of life.
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The radio is on from which I hear Muriel Gray’s dulcets and I am musing on the particular tones to that dulciloquy.
I am lucky. The other day I turned to look for a bus to catch after trying to alleviate back-muscle rupture pain by walking. Now it is worn off and I need to travel across town. Yet looking back for buses while walking strains it
a bit. I turned to look for a bus and thumbed a Porsche
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George was driving it and he kindly agreed to accelerate quite swiftly in order to relax my spine against the bendy contours of the cranio-sacral-
ergonomic sportsseat.
Today I went through the journey from hell. the flight from hell. a hell-flight: the journey as hell. Not your run of the mill. the-kids-were- awful aeroplane journey. though. no. because the kids are not awful. No matter what they do. they are not awful. They are kids in an
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received greatly reduced coffee and cheesecake upon request and Muriel Gray was on the plane too. up the back. and I imagine her beautiful through a time holding her kid and crying.
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