Five souls on a little boat are floating down the stream, when one of them stands up and exclaims – “I see land”.
Another stands too, and peering into the fog says ----– “ BigD me thinks you are seeing things”.
And Carrot top just shrugs her shoulders, and gazes up to the sky with a “why me” look on her face.
One of the females, a tall Blonde name of Six stands up and looks too, but she just shrugs and says to nobody in particular – “I see nothing”.
"Hey blond hair stacked 6 ft high - you need to look over here" - thus sayeth Ice.
“How bout you Scratch”, says Cake, “you see anything”.
"Scratchomo"? repeats Cake
“I see land my man”, says Colo as she lights a cigarette, at least it looks like a cigarette, and Puppy moves closer - breathing deeply.
BigD says - "I saw blue lightning flashes over there by the Dead Sea".
MamaMiah speaks up with an “I don’t see nothing, either”.
"Where did she come from" - wonders aloud Big D
“Another fine mess you’ve got us into – Daze”, yells Cake and Topaz in tandom both in a matrimonial denial.
“ I don’t think so girlfriends, because joining this blogstream was your ideas you know”. And so speaks BigD.
"They were talking to me you big galluping chowder head" - says Daze.
Ice awakes from a nap, looks around and says – “what’s going on anyway, have we not found land yet”?
“No Ice”, sayeth BigD, “I’ve spotted it twice but nobody listens, and the boat of ideas keeps drifting away from shore”. "Plus Daze is yelling at me again, and I don't know why"?
Ice adjusts the “Durango Kid Hat” he bought at Krougers, and says – “I agree with BigD, I think we should steer toward wherever he thinks he sees land the next time he sees it = if it is ok with the rest of you guys, know what I mean, Vern”?
And Vern says - "hey I'm not in the fucking boat, I'm watching t.v. in the dentist's office, leave me out".
"Who's Vern" -sayeth Puppy
"He's a friend of JimB's" -- says Colo
"Where have I've been, I got lost in the head" -- says JimB
And as Cake moves away from Ice she says - “where did you buy those smokes, Iceman”? "And by the way what's the head"?
To which the PolarB looks away into the distance and says – “for the record, let it be known that I did not buy these smokes from nowhere”.
"No you didn't - I did!" speakath Ice "And the head is the shitter".
"Mind your own business ice cube" - speaks PolarB
"She called me an ice cube, BigD"--says Ice
And BigD says - "she's talking about frozen water, get over it"!
"What do you think Scratchomo"? says- the icecube
And Scratch just looks at the Iceman and says – “he was just a hired hand working on a dream during days gone by”.
BigD smiles knowingly and says – “The Eagles” – “Tequila Sunrise”.
Scratch, scratch’s his head and sayeth – “righto BigD, take another shot of courage”.
To which Daze says – it would be good if we could concentrate on the matter at hand.
To which Ice says - "yeah give me another shot of that stuff".
At this, PolarB stands up in the boat and says – “I think I will swim for land, but first pass that bottle over here”.
Suddenly Pie arouses as if in a stupor, stands up and says – “It might be a good day for a swim after all”.
But then, BigD pauses on his bowl of Wheaties in mid spoonswipe and says, “do any of you recall that at the beginning of this story the keyboard in the sky said there were only 5 people on this boat”?
Colo merely puffs on her pipe, while adjusting her Sherlock Holmes hat, and says – “Diesel, there you go worrying about details again”.
To which BigD peers at the Iceman, while pulling his Ohio State jersey out of his jeans, and says – “Ice you need to defrost a minute”.
To which Ice says - "what'd I say"?
To which Scratch says - "Ray Charles, Shreveport 1949."
At this juncture Topaz glances in her self-attached rear view mirror and hollers out – “there’s another boat approaching topsyturvey”.
To which JimB mutters under his breath, “topsyturvey my ass, what she means is from the port side, I never could teach her to drive much less the directions of a naval ship”.
To which Puppy yelps out – “and there are people on it”.
Colo looks at the approaching boat with mistrust and pokes Scratch in the rib, telling him “get us out of here Scratchomo”.
And as Scratch puts the metal to the Daniel Boone Shoe, he is wearing, thus floorboarding the 327 Chevy that doesn’t use gas, and turns the boat into a “Lowrider” as it squeals out in the water, burning rubber as it goes.
To which Coloconnect says – “hey you can’t squeal and burn rubber in water”.
To which JimB says – “what… you’ve never done it in the shower”?
To which Colo says, hmmm… we will take a break while the great keyboard in the sky decides whether or not we deserve a sequel to this little story.
Everybody in the boat lays about, reading magazines, newspapers and listening to a small transistor radio without batteries as the great keyboard in the sky ponders whether to continue this story or not.
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