After another Google session I discovered that Bryant`s is the best breakfast place in Memphis ... voted on by those who go there I guess ... we`re talking biscuits ... home made biscuits ..., cornbread, pulled pork, potatoes ... and ... gravy ... is gravy a beverage .... there`s nothing green on this plate ....
I drove over there late in the AM .... I mean the cycle does get to you .. especially the `repeat`part of it .. the drive took me through parts of Memphis that I had never seen ... lots of ribbon wire, dust and decrepitude ... it looked like a former war zone ... and just maybe it was .... the `Jesus is lorders` vs. those who just want to live their lives in peace ...
I ordered a ham and cheese omelet and sat down at one of the booths .... and ... BAM ...it was there ....
I started eating it ... waiting for the obvious sign or clue that I was supposed to be there ... I am sitting back to this lady who is having her breakfast, lunch and dinner all at once ... so nothing is happening ... no dead phones ringing ... no turned off radios talking ...I finish the omelet and get up to leave ... I trip over the outstretched leg of the woman who was dining just behind me ... and down I go like a sack of potatoes ... for the second time on this trip ...
She is all apologetic ... I am as well ... and then I notice she has a Jackson Delta CD on the table ... she is reading the booklet ... I asked her where she got the CD ... she said Bobby Watson gave it to her ... I said Bobby Watson .... I know him ... in fact I am currently living in Peterborough ... she says Bobby and her husband used to play together ... her husband is a bass player ... I was just about to say it was a small world when over comes another diner .... did I hear you folks talking about Bobby Watson ....
I sad yes we were .... he says ... I knew Bobby when he was here in Memphis 10 years ago ... I`d do anything for Bobby Watson ... in fact I have some of his gear .... well what is it ... it`s a guitar and amp ... well I could take it back with me .... no shit ... I just happen to have it with me ....
We all break out in laughter .... life is funny that way he says .... funnier than you think or even know I thought ... we spent the next few minutes chatting about Bobby until it was time to move on ... I moved the gear into the truck ... said goodbye .... and headed on down the road .... which as we all know .... goes on forever ...
Oh yeah .... I`ll be hitting repeat a lot tonight .... I`ll probably only have one last thing to say tomorrow ... as for the `watcher` .... well ... `it`s` still there ... waiting to test me again on the next adventure .... like Stephen King has demonstrated again and again ... you can`t defeat evil ... you can only push back on it ... and when you do push back, it pops out somewhere else ... for my `friends`on the road ... I don`t know who they are ... but it is comforting to know they exist and are out there .... and for the `watcher`s` sentinels ... they are always out there ... reminding me that the road is never solitary and that they also go on forever .... and beyond ...
To quote from verse 1666 of the Krome Koan,
`Jesus saves .... you from thinking for yourself ....`
Looking down the road,
Forever Man
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