DANCE OF THE 49

She was the apparition that survived the Ghost Wars of Port Moore, the third party in a double threesome with a scientist and a smuggler and the sultry bartender and her nerdy partner.   

She is the Things Heard and Seen, George's paramour from the stables of Chosen, Catherine's revenge sex in the backyard, and The Debt that Rachel Singer finally collected in a Kiev assylum.

She passed by on Thursday night, her flimsy striped duster dress caressing the chicharong baboy, daing na bangus and inihaw na hito of the round table while emitting whiffs of androstenol from her tight flowered boxer shorts where heaven's gate is on hiatus, untouched for years now except by her own hands and wild fantasies.   

Then came The Woman in the Window whose 49th birthday in Bakal 2 was celebrated with a Dance of the 41 by an agoraphobic psychologist with a gay legislator in New York and by the president's daughter and a serial killer in Mexico for the prize of arroz caldo, tokwa't baboy and putong puti. 

But the Phantom Biker don't dance so for her 49th, he asked Egan Bernal to summon Calypso in the dirt roads to Montalcino and tango up the steep gradient of the Zoncolan, Remco Evenepoel dropped in the ride for free range chicken in San Jose, Simon Yates overtaken in the Munoz-Lupao-San Jose circuit, the Phantom Biker wondering how modest and well behaved is the Greek princess in her horny moments, the liquid fire of a Johnny Walker XR numbing the insecurities of a precarious Tuesday in the time of the world's longest quarantine...