immediate future events

immediate future events

fiction
Edward w Pritchard

Get up quickly from your warm bed when the garbage truck crunches the detritus of your civilization with a loud snap waking you from dreams about mint espresso and discounts on your car insurance and run to the window and you will see the garbage truck is being driven through your suburban neighborhood by good old Jesus who works the route alone jumping up and down from the big truck occasionally to throw a bent discarded baby carriage into the grinding motor of his machine.

Turn on CNBC business news a few minutes earlier and the Arabic guest being interviewed will be Jesus again and he will side step the host's question about when will the Federal reserve definitely state when it will raise interest rates in 2015 and Jesus will look at you straight through the TV and ask if you heard that two or three children over there in Aleppo, Syria had been killed in a bombing raid yesterday morning by targeted bombing.

Head over to the Dollar store later to get next year's planning calendar and while you wait in line at the register to pay the guy working frantically alone to take every one's money and count out carefully the proper change there at the dollar store will be the same blue eyed Arabic guy good old Jesus who drove the garbage truck earlier and was even earlier being interviewed on CNBC and he will tell you that the baby carriage that got crunched up in the grinding machine of his garbage truck in front of your house here in America once belonged to those same little kids who got bombed over in Syria and that you and the pilot who flew the targeted bombing mission that mangled those children near the souk in Aleppo used the same type of day planning calendar to organize your days.