Dear Dirty America

DDA

Thin Ray of Hope

Thin Ray of Hope
May 29
14:22 2014

JOHN BENNETT

(originally sent to Bennett’s email list — sign up below for more like this)

If you turn on a flashlight on one side of the universe its light will take off like California Chrome out of the gate at 186,000 miles a second, and 100,000 years later, barring mishaps, it will reach the other side. But there’s curved space to take into account, Black Holes, quasars and NSA interception.

Not many people know about the NSA’s Light Interception Program. Hardly anyone suspects his flashlight is being monitored along with his cell phone and computer. The NSA is capturing light and keeping it in a vault dug deep into granite a half mile underground, ostensibly to analyze it for potential terrorist activity, but the inner circle knows the NSA is looking to the future when the light supply, along with oil and water, will be depleted and we’ll all be left in the dark.

Yes, that brave little flashlight beam will have many obstacles to overcome on its long journey across the universe. It will have to pass thru billions of galaxies and gas clouds lightyears across, it will have to circumvent gigantic suns and be on the lookout for gamma rays and x-rays and extra-terrestrial life forms that will try to chase it down. It will have to avoid the flapping wings of lost angels and the turbulent thought vibrations of the prime mover. It’s mankind’s thin ray of hope, and we should be cheering it on.

SEE ALSO

John_Bennett_Road_RageThe birth of road rage

Capitalism on a deathbed, or: Jesus was an American

In the Prophetic Essence of Visionary Courage, John Bennett Challenges & Incites

What we have to get by on

Waiting mortuaries

Find John Bennett’s novels, short stories, and shards at Hcolom Press. You can contact him, or get on his Shards list at dasleben@fairpoint.net. Read a review of his novel Children of the Sun & Earth here

[‘A Not So Ordinary Sunset’ photo by Faisal Akram]

Tags
Share

Related Articles

0 Comments

No Comments Yet!

There are no comments at the moment, do you want to add one?

Write a comment

Write a Comment

Leave a Reply

Brave Media

Subscribe

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Dear Dirty America Copyright

© Dear Dirty America, 2011-2017. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this blog’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Dear Dirty America with appropriate and specific direction to the original content.