MEETINGS WITH REMARKABLE PEOPLE
Banana aluminum,
Wretched secondhand pressure cooker,
Crucifixions made out of plastic,
Jumbo jet,
Iron grid that is fit for cooking but not for eating, with a permanent
garlic stain,
Rooster with its feathers and flashy crest and waddles of elegant pink
flashy brocade
Sometimes we wonder whether we should be one of those,
Or else should completely fake the whole thing,
The gentleman with slim mustache and note pad under his arm
Told us that we shouldn't fake anything,
Otherwise we are going to run into trouble with BDS as well as IRS.
The gentleman with belly button, weighing 300 pounds,
Told us that if we're going to fake anything,
We had better cut our aortas first.
A lady too told us the same thing;
She was wearing a tigerskin skirt,
She had a giant smile but one tooth,
She had turquoise hair but elegant gaze
From her single eye,
She was drooping,
She seemed to be wearing some kind of lipstick and powder make-up,
Her earlobes were big,
She was wearing giant gold earrings
She told us they were 24 carat
And she complained that they were sometimes too heavy on her
head;
She also told us that her hair was unmanageable,
That her neck muscles have too much blood power;
However, she stood there telling us all those things.
She brought along a companion of hers,
A lovely maiden wearing a necklace of pearl,
Smiling, with a light complexion,
Riding on a white lion.
Then she brought a third friend who was very peculiar:
One wonders whether he was man or woman, human or animal;
He had a most gaping mouth opening at his stomach,
With somewhat polite gaze;
He possessed nine heads,
All of them expressing certain expressions
And wearing conch-shell rings in their earlobes;
When you look at him, his faces have the same expressions,
But with seeming distortion in every face of delight.
Can you imagine seeing such people and receiving and talking to
them?
Ordinarily, if you told such stories to anybody, they would think
you were a nut case;
But, in this case, I have to insist that I am not a nut case:
I witnessed these extraordinary three friends in the flesh.
Surprisingly, they all spoke English;
They had no problem in communicating in the midst of American
surroundings.
I am perfectly certain that they are capable of turning off the light or
turning on the television.
What do you say about this whole thing?
Don't you think meeting such sweet friends is worthwhile and
rewarding?
Moreover, they promise me that they will protect me all along.
Don't you think they are sweet?
And I believe them, that they can protect mc.
I would say meeting them is meeting with remarkable men and
women:
Let us believe that such things do exist.
8 December 1977