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July 22, 2006 There the path turned. The sun shone down through the trees and these trees at once broke the light and divided it into various sized beams. It was humid out, and hundreds of mosquitoes looked for blood. Far off, the stars were waiting for their turn to shine, in the absence of the sun. Later on, at the drive in movie, the sky was there in all its glory. As the movie played, and everyone watched, he watched the skies. There were a few planes that passed by, and later on, a helicopter too. One falling meteorite flashed down in the distance. He kept looking up. Then he saw something odd. A star, as if come to life, seemed to dislodge from its place in the sky, as if it was going to go for a walk. Since he had just tilted his head back after resting his neck, he knew it was an optical sort of trick, because as one stares at stars, they seem to move sometimes. So though it seemed like it was moving, he knew it would, in a few seconds, in a few minutes, even presently, remain in the same proximity to the other stars around it, or even, say, the open hatch of the truck that he was sitting on the back of. But no, it kept moving, in a straight line, and he watched it go for about a full minute. While it was doing this traveling, another star dislodged itself, as if waking up, and began to move in the other direction, at the same speed. He decided to keep his eye on the first one, and it traveled out of site. The second one had done the same when he went to look for it. He wondered what they were, and why they had done that. Later on, while pulling out of the movies, a few horns honked in the distance. All the cars and trucks were so close, and one could hit another at any time. Everyone seemed to go along fine though. If you took a piss down in the bushes, it felt right, because the earth was so big, it could absorb so much piss. He thought that everyone should piss on the earth once and a while, just for good luck. He wondered also about the traveling stars again. He turned right, and accelerated, onto the one lane highway. Roaring down the road with the others, he thought about car accidents and the little memorials people put on the roadside. If life was precious, and everyone gave it lip service as such, then why did people carry on the way they did? He asked a relative once about some trouble someone had had with neighbors. Someone had taken someone else to task about the fact that the someone else had planted vegetables in their front garden. The response he had gotten was, ‘ Don’t you know neighbors are a terrible thing in life, that it is always like that?’ The truck went on down the road. Modern gas stations lit up like angels in the night. There was coffee there and a hundred other things. These things were used to keep reality at bay. It must be like that. He wondered what Henry Louis Mencken would say about these one-stop gas stations where you could buy everything. He wondered what Mencken would have thought about his traveling stars, or the sun beaming through the trees. One thing that he knew for sure, was that the path was always turning, for better or worse. And those traveling stars, those traveling stars had been something to see. ------------ Email Brian Michael Barbeito: Brian1750@Hotmail.com Comment on this article here! ------------ All articles are EXCLUSIVE to Useless-Knowledge.com and are not allowed to be posted on other websites. ARTICLE THIEVES WILL BE PROSECUTED! |
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