a car and a park in autumn — Part 1

Sing he no longer…

After walking to the car and sitting in the passenger seat: (1.) telephoning Bertolt Wilder’s office, (2.) leaving the park through the West entrance, (3.) crossing the Delancy Street, (4.) Driving along the A4201 past the Neuendorf Arms, where Lenin drank, (5.) Turning left onto the A502 (Camden High Street) driving north towards Hampstead, across streets through Chalk Farm towards Belsize Park, stopping in front of the house in which he had a flat, (6.) looking back and forth, past the station,(7.) driving on, up Haverstock Hill (8.) in front of the closed police station now an eatery, Hegel and Marx lived down that road (9.) drove on, talked about the the menu in front of the Argentinean restaurant Beef in the North, (10.) at a standstill in front of the shop windows of the bookshop on the hill, (11.) buying brioche and Mille Faire at the bakery, stopped in front of the gallery windows of the Spartakus gallery, (12.) accelerated through the traffic lights by the Observatory, blue lights and siren screaming (13.) crossed the top of the heath at two or three times the speed limit (14.) turned on the media player, Japanese Funk eating pastry (15.) Arrived at the A1, blue lights flashing, 80 miles an hour. Traffic melting away. “I have some reports for you to read, is Osake their? She is…I’ll see you their then…” Knowing looks and laughter after she hangs up (16.) the cloud cover was clearing as we left the A1 and merged with the M1 northbound , (17.) the sun was shining, car traffic in both directions, broken cars under bridges (18.) leaving the motorway heading north on the A41, primitive dual carriageway, cars, vans, a bus and lorries on the road, (19.) several Mercedes and a Citroen coming from St Albans at the roundabout we are waiting for green light, he is amusing himself by flicking the blue lights on and off (20.) A phone call with Dominique Martin( 21.) two old women and a man with white hair and a blue suit, reading the mirror, are sitting on the bench seat on the back of an open top 5 series, a girl with white stockings, a grey skirt and a green beret on red, short-cropped hair is walking across the traffic towards Watford. an elderly couple is sitting on the bench at the (bus stop) in front of the Mosque on the A41 (22.) At the roundabout, red light, blue light flashing, the siren whines, across the traffic onto the M25 slip road 90 MPH… the standard clock points precisely to I7:13 and (23.) leave the motorway at the next junction northwest on the A404 back home nothing pleases at all, so to speak, she reunites with herself.the real social, life as actually lived…