Last night the clouds were touching the ground
and a rainbow stretched out and upside down. A boxy Volvo with a funny
little old man inside looking cute in a pink suit was sitting in the rear.
I was invited in, "Come Misses Robbins I would like to show you your future."
With the lofty even voice of one in complete control
I replied, "Good sir I was brought up better than this. I can not and will
not travel with a man, even the man of my dreams, with out first having
his name."
Smirking at some inner joke, at least as far as
I perceived. The odd little man in his lavender suit now green chuckled
out, "I fear I can not give you my name as you seem to have a very pretty
one of your own. And, I would no less part with mine than a republican
with his money, but for our mutual benefit you may call me Mr. Biv. Roy
for short, as long as I may be so bold as to address so fair a lady by
her first name."
Now blushing how could I resist. How indeed but
like this, "We shall see Mr. Biv." Almost under his breath I could swear
he echoed those very words.
"Mr. Biv," I started after entering the Volvo, "You
said we shall see my future. How might I ask?"
No longer smirking at his inner joke he flat out
roared with laughter. So strong that the even a sturdy Volvo shook with
glee, "How else but with our eyes? Or, Would you prefer that we try seeing
your future by tasting all the food you shall eat in your life? I must
warn you the last person to taste his future last tasted of death as he
exploded when even his great girth could not hold all the food he would
try."
Without waiting for an answer his asked the driver
to stop in ten years at the corner on the right.
I'm afraid that is the last stop I can transcribe
for you to read. It seems that this was the only corner and the only stop
on the only street. What came after was an infinite blank, or so I thought
at first. But even as I stood at this lonely corner I saw the road before
me grow so that another corner was in place. A puzzled looked must have
crossed my face for the little man chose now to speak, "You see before
you your future. The roads you choose you build. The corners are choices
and chances gone past. Though never going away they just get placed further
behind. With a little work you can build a yellow brick road which takes
you to the answers that you seek. Though if you sit to long the streets
grow dull and narrow and begin to reek.
Would you mind thinking of an ice cream shop I seem
to have grown hungry? " With ice cream in hand the little man in a chocolate
suit, to match the spill on his lapel, guided me back to the car.
The driver brought me to my door. With the ice cream
gone I briskly brushed the crumbs from my hands and thanked the little
man for the trip. He simple nodded with that quirky smirk, waved and was
gone.
Well, I'm awake now. Funny though when I woke and
looked out the window to the start of a new day. I could see but for an
instance. I know you'll think me crazy. The road turned gold. Makes me
wander if the end of a rainbow has a pot of gold or a golden corner.