h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

How do I send a story or a poem to the right place?

Into which world can I place this piece of writing? It's a story, but also a poem.It's a new thing, a true thing, a totally askew thing. It's my thing, with its own ring. It has a need to sing.


BLUEJAY AND THE PINK PLASTIC ROSE

Bluejay stepped out into the new day and attached a pink plastic rose to the inside mirror of his Sundance camper van.

And the sun flashed a laser ray over his face and he was a painted warrior.

"I shall drive this van along four thousand trails" he said "in search of the pattern of music."

So Bluejay drove for four thousand days along four thousand ways.

And there were many times, across many lines.

There were stories and glories.

There was dark and dangerous mystery.

"Oh yes, there were faces and scars and songs and stars, and yet no pattern of music" said Bluejay, as the light turned to indigo night. And the moon flashed a laser ray over his face and he was a painted phantom.

And all the while, the pink plastic rose had remained attached to the miror. Bluejay was exhausted. He tore down the flower.

"So hey" he said "and what are you
You rose which never dies"
And what know you of joy and grief
Beneath these sacred skies?
You have no fragrance, have no thorns
You need not light nor rain
And do you dream your plastic dreams
Eternal life to gain?"

Bluejay stared at the rose. He heard a whisper through the nowhere silence in his head.

"I may be plastic, may be gold
I may be life or wonder.
Some day within another time
I will be death and thunder.
I run through questions, run through blood
I am both pure and tainted.
There is no place of light or shade
My pattern is not painted."

And Bluejay threw the pink plastic rose high high into the sky.

"Fly music, fly" he said.

He watched the rising sun flashing a laser ray onto the inside mirror of his Sundance camper van, and drove into the new day.

END

cactuscafe June 05

I suggest putting it in a Guide Entry and puttingitin the AWW. The UnderGuide might pick it up.

thanks for that - I'm finding my way around the site with the help of you folks -

what a nickname you have - trade?

cactuscafe

No they're all mine!