Distance
Distance
“What about you thinking?” asked Master Satan.
Regarding a meeting that never took place. “Never?”
Never. “I really don’t understand you. There wasn’t a meeting?
She was there. “And?” She sat close to me. A few chairs away.
“Where?” In a church. “ In a church. Where?” In London. Beautiful.
“What is beautiful?” The church. “What church?” The Saint Osmund.
“I asked you, what is beautiful?” I understand. You are wrong. “Why?”
The question failed. “Really? What is the right question?” … Who is beautiful?
“We must differentiate between what and who. And you can. Don’t play!”
With you. “Yes. I am your master.” I am sorry. “No problem. Good student.”
But the lady was there. She was a very beautiful young English lady. “Hmm.”
Yes. A woman. Medium height. Slender. Half-length blonde hair. Twenties.
“Nice blue eyes?” Yes. “And?” I waited for the mass. A few minutes. Only
I was looking for my Catholic Peayer Book in my backpack. I found.
Then I pulled out the book. In my backpack were my work clothes.
“What exactly?” Trousers, T-shirts, a high-visibility vest, and safety gloves.
“But the trousers and T-shirts were hospitality style.” Yes. “Why?”
Because I worked in an agency. Make sure everything I kept was gloves and a vest.
Never know your next workplace.
“That’s right.”
“Then what happened in the church?” The lady saw the contents of my bag. And..
… and she never looked at me again. An elderly couple behind us smiled sympathetically at me.
“Hmm.”
Yes. She was a beautiful English lady. Blonde hair. Blue eyes. Nice shape, legs.
Nice summer dress, skirt.
“Hmm.”
Hmm. Yes. This is the distance. I was well dressed. She saw me as rich.
“What is the lesson from this case?”
The mass
“Really?”
I am not lying
Read my poem
In the Saint Osmund Church
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