Car Sick 3

Cool wintry mornings the reflected heat gives a brief charge of radiance—like coming indoors from the cold and reaching for the burning logs in the grate. A pleasure hit, mainlining serotonin. Sometimes when it’s a B double one gets the first blast and then basks in the expectation of the second coming. No particular glare or signal given. The painted steel doesn’t give off, nor tarpaulin and plastic coated. It doesn’t happen often; no good chasing it on the Freeways and in the jams. On each occasion the gift comes anew because unanticipated. Indeed, the first few times it happens disbelief overcomes.