Once I attended an A.I.M. meeting,(Agoraphobics in Motion), in Flushing, Queens. I struck up a conversation with a man, called "Jay", we talked about the past and then he invited me to party in Long Island.
The very next morning I embarked on a journey to see "Jay" in Long Island. I passed a advertisement sign for an optometrist "Dr. T.J Eckleburg", along the way. The sky had an ominous pastel hue of green and yellow.
I arrived at the party it was at a mansion, a factual imitation spanking new under a thin beard of raw ivy. Jay greeted me awkwardly, "Can't repeat the past?" he cried incredulously "Why of course you can!". He smelled like mothballs and Makers-Mark, and he was debonair.
I walked down the veranda to a patio by the pool, where J.Edgar Hoover, Truman Capote and Kaiser Wilhelm sipped on "Belize Rum Punch" poured from an "Art Deco" decanter. "I'm parched" I thought as I spotted the bar by the pool-house. When I noticed Lt.Uhura, and Amelia Earhart sitting in some chaise lounge chairs next to a dough-boy with alabaster skin, who smelled like mustard gas. Furiously chain-smoking filter-less cigarettes and laughing as they exhaled. Amelia said "Remember picking lemons with William Randolph Hearst and sipping consomme with William Howard Taft? We... we stopped for coffee in the Redwood forest it was near the giant drooping leaves, and spoons of powdered cream?"
Lt Uhura nodded and replied "Yes, and soon afterward we saw the giant of Illinois, he died from a blister on his toe. After walking all day through the first winter's snow, and throwing bits of stale bread and old seeds to the last speckled doves. He never even felt his shoe full of blood and was delirious with pain, his bedroom walls in the log cabin had began to glow and he felt himself soaring up through falling snow." and he paused and looked up and said, "The sky was a woman's arms!".
I walked to the bar near the pool-house and asked the bartender, "Andy", for a "Mojito". "Sure thing!" said Andy, and then he reached across the bar and whispered,"In the future, everyone will be world famous for fifteen minutes, but... don't... tell... Jay!"
Soon afterward, Ric Ocasek arrived, and some curious sounding music began to play in the background. He then promptly walked onto the water in the pool and all the guests jumped in to touch him, it was magic.
Edited, Jul 30th 2007 11:51pm by Redjed
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