too much reminiscing for 4am brought about this
Date: Jan 11th, 2010 8:34:00 am - Subscribe
Mood: brave
That day, the saucers landed. Hundreds of them, golden, silent, coming down from the sky like great snowflakes. And the people of earth stood and stared as they descended, waiting, dry-mouth, to find what waited inside for us and none of us knowing if we would be here tomorrow
But you didn't notice it because
That day, the day the saucers came, by some coincidence, was the day that the graves gave up their dead and the zombies pushed up through soft earth, or erupted, shambling and dull-eyed, unstoppable, came towards us, the living, and we screamed and ran
But you didn't notice it because
On the saucer day, which was the zombie day, it was Ragnarok also, and the television screens showed us a ship built of dead-man's nails, a serpent, a wolf... all bigger than the mind could hold, and the cameraman could not get far enough away, and then the Gods came out
But you did not see them coming because
On the saucer-zombie-battling-gods day the floodgates broke. And each of us was engulfed by genies and sprites, offering us wishes and wonders and eternities and charm and cleverness and true brave hearts and pots of gold... while giants feefofummed across the land, and killer bees,
But you had no idea of this because
That day, the saucer day the zombie day, the Ragnarok and fairies day, the day the great winds came and snows... and the cities turned to crystals, the day all plants died, plastic dissolved, the day the computers turned, the screens telling us we would obey, the day.... Angels drunk and muddled, stumbled from the bars, and all the bells of London were sounded. The day animals spoke to us in Assyrian, the Yeti day, the fluttering capes and arrival of the time machine day,
But you didn't notice any of this because
you were sitting in your room, not doing anything,
not even reading, not really, just
looking at your telephone,
wondering if i was going to call.
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