“AS FAST AS A SPEEDING TRAIN”
by OPOVV, ©2019
(Dec. 22, 2019) — “In its most basic form, existence is the transfer of energy from one state to another. Life, as we know it, is the transfer of energy that replicates the order of atoms so the square peg fits into another square peg. The whole ball of wax is nothing more than the transfer of electrons from one orbit to another, of quarks moving around and strange particles, whether they be in packets, boxes, waves or envelopes, traveling from there to here. And, furthermore, this movement never stops or, if it did, then the book of the universe is closed unless, of course, it’s not. It’s the ‘it’s not’ part that is the question of the day, a day being what we call ‘eternity’; the ‘big day’ or the ‘Really Big Day (RBD),’ if you like. Nothing is not in motion or, conversely, everything is in motion, from here to there.
“Me? I could take it or leave it, but others seem to have a problem with me, or you, taking it and leaving it. But we all should believe in magnetism. Why, all one has to do is look at the Northern Lights to be convinced that that’s where it’s at: the force, the energy, the energy that makes it possible for us to appreciate the intricacies of a swarm of locusts eating us out of house and home, or maybe appreciating the beauty of the Meadowlark’s song.
“Does the gnat gaze up at the heavens and wonder at the phases of the moon or, for that matter, why it rains? I don’t know, but we do know that the migration pattern of many of the world’s different species depends on the uninterrupted flow of magnetism that surrounds the globe, that bathes everything in a protective cover that makes life, as we know it, possible. Time-wise it all happens pretty darn fast, I mean, the beginning and the end of stuff, like space, for instance. Or the universe. It all depends on scale.
“Take those little people who live in that hidden valley in the Adirondack Mountains in the New York area, those people who refurbished Lionel trains they found in some landfill and are using them to great advantage. Yes, they are small compared to you and me, but they have visions just as we. They have song and stories; concertinas and telescopes; éclairs and easy chairs; in short, they’re just like us, but a lot smaller.
“We’re visiting them, now, those Little People, to get their take on what they think of our latest stupidity – impeachment – and what they are most fearful of. It was a very difficult trek — and dangerous, thanks to the cold and the snow, but we came prepared, up to a point. We can’t communicate with the outside world due to magnetic interference, whether done on purpose or maybe just a natural phenomenon of the area, a quirk; I don’t know. Hate to slip and break a leg, but, as I said, we made it in and I’m writing this all down since our camera and recorder don’t work: all we get is static.
“We are limited to this clearing and have been warned to not venture beyond for fear of being attacked by trained Yellow Jackets, the Little People’s sentinels to keep us big people out of their valley. I’m not too sure how it works, but they managed to lay track through mountains to a number of landfills and garbage dumps where they recycle all kinds of things: books, for instance. Somehow they managed to load a whole volume of Encyclopedia Britannica, the Harvard Classics and all our bestsellers for the past 100 years. They lay the book on the ground, open a page and climb up one of these tall oaks, and shimmy out onto a limb and read from above, the print being so big to them, you understand.
“And being so small their day is broken-up by four, meaning for every one of our days they live four, yet their life-span is the same as ours. A Little People who is 50 of our years is, in reality, 200 years old. There are some Little People who are 500 years old, I’ve been told.
“Here comes a train, a steam locomotive, followed by a string of shiny aluminum-clad passenger cars. If I were ever to have a toy train layout, I’d have something like this. And it stops at the station as the whistle toots. Cute. Out step a couple of dignitaries, dressed in tails. They trust hardly anyone, and I had to swear on the Bible and the Constitution that I would never reveal where this place is. Heck, I don’t even know where it is.
“They bow; I bow. How do I do? Fine, thank you. How do you do? I’m so glad. Everyone is fine. And a Merry Christmas to us all. And now they are pointing their canes at me and yelling, ‘Why hasn’t Pelosi been recalled?’ What’s wrong with us, they ask. They have short-wave sets and are tuned into the world. They say if they can make two plus two equal four, why can’t the Democrats?
“They ask why everyone who was hired during the Obama years hasn’t been fired? They ask why Muslims are still arriving every day, and they ask why we don’t have the common sense not to round up the Muslims who are here and deport them. They ask what happened to our backbones; what happened to WWII’s win at any cost and be done with it? They ask why we don’t deal with the Socialists as they should be dealt with: first, censored; second, incarcerated; third, tried and punished.
“They say we coddle the stupid people. They say it’s not our fault they’re stupid; it’s their fault. They have a choice: stay at home and read a book or go to the bar. They say political correctness has done more harm to the USA than Common Core. They say if we don’t act responsibly we might as well hang it up, but there’s too many of us who want to act responsibly to hang it up. They say the backlash is overdue, that the judges, DA’s, police and everyone involved with the judicial system better get wise or there’ll come a time when it’ll be too late to fix it, and that time is approaching as fast as a speeding train.
“They say an indication of how far we’ve gone over the edge is what the Democratic candidates are saying: they can’t stand a person who can’t be bought, is what it comes down to. They cannot accept honesty over duplicity; kindness over underhandedness; and charity over theft. The have the morals of a preacher’s son and the aspirations of a three-time senator. They are at the bottom of the hierarchy of admirable traits yet vision themselves at the pinnacle. They are God’s chosen to be pitied and our chosen not to be trusted.
“They say they are tired of trying to help those who refuse to help themselves. They say we have the power but don’t use it. They say God gave us the tools to do right, but by not taking advantage of our deductive reasoning abilities, we’re shooting ourselves in the foot. They say that the greatest generation may have fought and died in vain if we allow delusional people (such as Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders) to have a public forum, when in actuality they should be sent to China as slave labor. They say Biden and Bloomberg ought to read The Post & Email and maybe learn that the phrase ‘over the hill’ means just that.
“The Little People are a proud people and don’t suffer fools. They don’t hand out syringes and give people help who refuse to help themselves. They enforce their vagrancy laws and wherever it says ‘NO OVERNIGHT PARKING OR CAMPING’ they mean it. They never had a mayor who told the cops to let the bums break the law with impunity. They do not, under any circumstances, coddle and become enablers.
“They don’t have one illegal immigrant, one undocumented alien or one Muslim in this valley, and if one ever did set foot in this valley they would be kicked out as soon as they arrived. They asked me, ‘Isn’t that the reason why we have a government in the first place, to protect us? And how is the government protecting us by allowing MS 13 gangbangers and Muslims in?’ they ask me. They say the proof is that we have allowed anti-Americans in our country, like Ilhan Omar. And they don’t want to talk to us anymore until we wash off the yellow streak down our backs.
“END OF STORY.
“And then we left and it took us twice as long getting out of there as it did going in, thanks to another foot of snow. Burger time: my treat.”
“Funny How Time Slips Away” (4:31)