sasha, vehicular homicide, jerusalem, dream by jeremy.rutman -- April 8, 2024
I was talking to Sasha W from somewhere in the desert, maybe Sinai. The connection wasn't great and I couldn't make myself understood, or more accurately it seemed she understood me but was responding cryptically or on an abstract level beyond me - I kept asking if this was a good time and whether she could hear me, and got either silence or replies that didn't make sense to me. I got in a taxi that careened through the desert, that hit a young kid after a few minutes. It looked pretty bad, I was sure the kid was dead. I got out of the taxi and it seemed the driver was also a kid - was I going to be held responsible for this? I hung around until a paramedic showed up, but the paramedic was looking at the driver, not the kid who got hit. I walked on and reached the old city of Jerusalem, glad to see Israeli soldier types and not arabs who might hold me responsible. In the alleyways of the old city I saw an old Hasidic rabbi type who gave me a look as though he recognized my ashkenazi look from afar. I went into some felafel place in a spacious stone courtyard - I was wearing the 'little tallis' but not a kippa, so only half the uniform of a religious Jew.
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