The Temple of the Blue Sky

I believe in The Sky.

There are several Other Crowds that do too.

I do not belong to them, because their activities are suspicious, and because they wear odd garments, and because they have closed doors in their eyes.

Sky Dreams

 

One of them says the sky is purple, and they have all these purple books and purple robes and go to purple church and eventually Purple Heaven. They drag their children to Purple Church on Wednesday evening, because that’s when the Purple god created the Purple Sky.

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This Is A Test.

This is a test, 1-2-3-4.

How many times have you heard that?? You’re at a conference or a performance; there’s the guy has his mike, testing 1234. You think, this is not a performance, this is not a star, this is just “Testing 1234”. This Is A Test

Yet the sound hits your ears, and it hits 300 other peoples’ ears and it sinks in. And they know him, that man with the pliers, with the unshaven beard. That man that doesn’t believe in his own voice. That man that has peanut butter in his lunch kit.

Testing 1234. He has just made his first hit. He has performed as a lead-in for the Stones, he has influenced the neurons of two hundred board directors who shape the corporate planet. He has revealed himself and all his hidden virtues to people who clean chairs and people who sit in Rolls Royces.

But, this is just a test. Testing 1234. This is just a test. And he thinks he is nothing and he knows he is nothing because his world of duct tape and electrical joiners is not on the scale of broadcast news. His wife has a better job. And yet he has spoken; all have heard. He has left his dynamic footprint, as all dinosaurs do, as the coming and going of leaves on millionaires’ trees.

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