by Henry, ©2025
(Jul. 9, 2025) — “The Surrey with the Fringe on Top” (4:53)
“Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to ‘The Pulse of the Nation,’ the place to hear it here first. We persuaded the Chief to do another interview and he agreed, so here he is, take it away.”
“How.”
“Alright, ‘how.’ Would you please share the American Indian’s point of view of life?”
“Most certainly, but don’t be surprised if you go away more confused than when you asked.”
“I’ll take the chance.”
“Okay, then try this on for size. Your universe has a start; where my universe never started, it always was. I know, you’re convinced that the universe had to start sometime, even somewhere, as if you knew the coordinates would make sense to you.”
“But it had to have a start. What about the singularity, the ‘Big Bang’ and all that stuff?”
“Look, that’s in your belief system, not mine. But, not like some others, I’m not going to kill you just because you don’t believe exactly what I believe.”
“That’s a relief; thank you.”
“So no start. Just ‘is.’”
“So that’s your belief system, ‘is?’”
“’Just is.’”
“I don’t get it.”
“No, you don’t, and that’s how you live your life, going through each day like a bull in a china shop.”
“I don’t get it.”
“Sure you do; it’s all around you, in every country, your somewhere.’”
“I still don’t get it.”
“So you have a piece of land to build upon. First thing? Clear-cut it; level it. Oh, I know, getting rid of the trees makes it easier to build, you know, drainage for sewer and rain run-off, roads and sidewalks. After all, we want the largest profit margin possible; we have investors to satisfy.”
“What’s wrong with that?”
“Well, I’ll tell you what’s wrong with that. The earth, the whole earth, all of your spaceship, is your Garden of Eden, not just one location on the surface of the planet. You breed like gerbils.”
“Gerbils?”
“Think ‘rats’ if it makes you feel better.”
“I’m going with gerbils.”
“I thought you would.”
“Excuse us while we pause for a commercial.”
“Try a Little Tenderness” (3:48)
“And we’re back with the Chief who is explaining how the American Indian views the cosmos.”
“That’s right. You’re focused on the ‘beyond’ when you can’t even focus on what’s in front of you.”
“You mean ‘can’t see the forest for the trees.’”
“Precisely. Our squaws have two kids while you behave like rats — oops, sorry, Gerbils. You pollute your water and end up with ‘Love Canal.’ You set ‘safe limits’ on allowable radiation limits servicing nuclear reactors, warheads and X-rays, but every couple of years or so those ‘limits’ keep rising and have been since 1948.”
“I never knew that.”
“It’s true; look it up. You’re all upset over red and yellow dyes in your food but find no fault in relying on extremely limited seed choice of wheat, soybeans, corn and other cash crops. And the way you treat your fowl and livestock you should all be arrested for animal cruelty.”
“I suppose so.”
“You used to act as if a human life was worth something; you used to execute murderers, child molesters and rapists. Nowadays, all you do is send them into a ‘Muslim Recruitment Center (prison)’ for a few years and let them out so they can do it all over again. Prisons are ‘Big Business’ so they like repeat offenders. No one mourns for lives ruined and lost.”
“Is this the point where you mention judges being the ‘weak link in our Republic?’”
“Most definitely. And I’d like to add that if you see a wolf spider, don’t kill it. Wolf spiders kill the poisonous spiders and large bugs.”
“And I would like for this discussion to continue but, unfortunately, our time has expired, so this is Henry, along with the Chief, wishing everyone a goodnight: Goodnight.
“Good show. Sliders in the freezer; you can nuke them. I’m having a mixture of centipedes and millipedes with croutons, side of mosquito larva in pond water. Meet you out back at the picnic table.”
“Cherokee Morning Song” (3:00)