Dream poem 89: Disingenuous Back Problems There are three or four of us with back problems. I am across town teaching a community class outside is a ‘Back Problems Van’. Later the van is at Kirkstall Abbey I return with Pudsey people to go to the ‘Back Van’ It is a lengthy day of seeing doctors and nurses and procedures but at l the end of it our backs are better. I am the first one through and I see the assembled doctors and thank them for their intervention. And I say “My back had been previously so bad that I couldn’t even put the handbrake on or lift a child without pain Now it is completely well” Even as I am saying it I felt completely disingenuous. My back had not been that bad for years. As for lifting the kids At thirteen and fifteen I do not carry or lift them at all anymore. I felt it was what the doctors wanted to hear especially the lady doctor. She wanted us to be grateful She wanted to make a dif...