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Sport 39: 2011
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A geographer once told me that running soothes the tidal fluctuations of the human brain. It helps focus the body until the mind spins like a wheel in water. In the blue light of the morning the pavement is broken with mirrors. The sky is an airless shield over the streets. Outside the Supersaver a queen sucks and balloons a bag like a throat. His mother had a throat of pearls. At the funeral my Aunt Shirley ate sausage rolls and told stories. Your Gran loved her stilettos, Shirley said. She wore a fur cape while doing the hoovering. The geographer stood pressed and grey at the coffin in his double breasted suit.
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The first day I met the geographer: ‘Here she comes, the Queen of Sheba,’ my mother said.
‘It’s the clothes that make the man,’ I said.