Meteors

Had a cool encounter with an old man on a street corner (wipe those filthy thoughts out of your mind….) I’d given up on seeing the shooting stars tonight, but when I saw him with his binoculars in the centre of London, I thought why not cast my gaze heaven-ward.
And lo, It came to pass, that a star was born in the north, and the wise old man did utter - ‘look, this is a sign, verily I say to thee’, and the young man nodded in agreement. Then, another star burst forth into the heavens, and the young man was confused, and the old man was confused - and both were more confused as the third bright star leapt across gods theatre. And they did gnash their teeth,and tear desperately at their hair. And the young man did wail ‘why God has thou confused us so, are we not worthy of your divine hand’. And the old man wept in multitudes. At this moment a taxi-driver stopped, and shouted, ‘it’s only a fucking meteor shower, you idiots’. And with this sudden jolt, both the young and the old man verily did come to their senses, and they did rejoice and laugh and hug, knowing they weren’t in Arabia 2002 years ago waiting for divine providence but were two rationalist atheists living in metropolitan London.
The End…

Posted by Ian at August 12, 2002 04:26 PM | TrackBack §