Funeral

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Sometimes you glimpse your own mortality.
In the 1980s I shared a flat in one of the South East London's less salubrious housing estates.
Years later, when my wife and I were expecting a baby, one of my ex flat-mates, also expecting, died.
I travelled to Yorkshire to attend the funeral. I stayed with some of my oldest friends, one of whom also lived with us in the same Peckham flat.
As you can imagine, it was a sad reunion.
But a phone call from Kent saying my wife had been taken into hospital also made it all too brief.
I was so tired. Nevertheless, I got straight back in my car and headed back to Kent.
FUCK!
I woke up in the M1, heading - at speed - toward the central reservation.
I turned off the motorway at the next junction and had a sleep.

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It shit me up, I was staring at the central reservation
I was freezing cold, curled up on the back seat in the dark
I was feeling old, eaten up with lack of concentration,
I was all alone, enjoying freedom in my isolation.

The Angel Of Death is broken down and waiting at the roadside
I just closed my eyes, hypnotised by sodium lights and darkness
I left it all behind, I was staring through tobacco-stained glass
It could have ended there... no fear of life, no fear of death.

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from Songs From The VOI-D, released September 27, 2020

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