“X-masis Coming” – Michael Sowa
by richibi
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last week I interpreted for a man
from Morocco, his French wasn’t
sufficient for him to hold an
interview with his insurance’s
medical examiner, I was the
intermediary
he’d been hit by a truck, a
“camion”, he called it, not at all a
small vehicle, sustained bruises
and chronic pain that significantly
restrained him, he was 63, the
driver, turning right against his
red light, hadn’t seen him
a few days ago on my own way to
the airport, a man got onto the bus
in a wheelchair, found his assigned
place behind the wall of the driver’s
seat, at the next stop another man
got on with a cane and a metal brace
along his lower left limb, and sat on
the bench in front of the first man
jovially the two began to compare
each other’s situation
both had been hit by a car turning
right on a red, neither would ever
walk right again
drive carefully, the one you hit might
be an angel, trumpeting, ironically,
caution to the world
or is it, tragically, irony
Richard
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a friend replies:
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2015 09:42:37 -0800
Subject: Re: “X-masis Coming” – Michael Sowa
From: ………..
To: ………..
RB,
When I was 16, I got hit By a 1964 valiant. The woman was driving at 60 mph in a 30 mph zone. It was a hit and run but she got caught a short while after. My dad was sitting on the porch of our house which was facing the highway and saw it happen. She demolished me, it took three years to get back to normal. Broken leg, shoulder, fractured skull, amnesia for a few months, etc. I lost a year of school because of it.
Today I suffer from a very bad back and mostly from a very bad leg due to the fracture of it. I still have nightmares of the hit by the car. A month or so ago, I saw a Valliant pass by my house and the sight of it brought it all back again. It lives with you all your life.
Joyeux Noel mon ami,
NNN
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