Thursday, November 5, 2015

Just Trying to Survive


Excuse me, I’m just trying to get my life lived between
epochs of epic destruction. Fortunately for me, I have
somehow sandwiched my existence in between two
crusty slices of species extinguishing events.

I barely missed those Hiroshima and Nagasaki things. Just
Two years and 6,500 miles of separation between me and
being blasted into oblivion. (As I see it, those atomizing in-
fernos were far too close for comfort.)

And I consider myself lucky indeed to have been elsewhere
during tsunami-swept destruction and volcanic eruption.
Unwittingly, I have managed to dodge those destructive tor-
nadic pathways which plow annually through the Midwest.

I’m just a regular guy trying to get through my life before some-
thing disturbingly dark and sinister engulfs and eradicates the
heartland of my existence. From a personal perspective, I have
managed to evade Armageddon all my life.

Historically speaking, however (and even Vegas odds-makers
would agree), my chances of survival have dwindled to less than
a fifty-fifty split. And my forecast for bright and sunny days re-
maining here on Planet Earth are at best dwindling in number.

Somehow I have managed to make it to the gray stages of old
age with my two dogs in toe and wobbly ways. I have survived
thus far through traffic’s flow of annihilation which I have faced.
Shh, do you hear that roar?

Methinks the asteroid of inevitable change is approaching.


Chris Hanch11-5-15

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