Far yet close.

by Jonathan Engstrand
11th September 2022

It is now a new morning in the city.  There is the aftermath from when the supporters have wrecked the place, now extraterrestrials have wreaked havoc, and people are fleeing, but in some parts people are coming home from work where the calamity had not happened or had much of an impact.  There are concerns that Dictator's supporters will go rampant yet again and extraterrestrials will return.  People who live in their cars and more so those in tents are very worried about the supporters wreaking havoc and what do they do? 

People who have been working at night are coming home from their night shift; when the daytime worker come in, they talk to the ones leaving about the dream of that blissful place, this goes on for a few minutes, then go home, before getting back home  to bed some talk to people they meet, those who have got out of bed to embrace certain uncertainties of the new day talk about the dream, calamity had not happened, some say yet in that sphere, and which point she finishes what he was to say.  The night shift workers say about how nice that is but are glad for their jobs.  Some are having these conversations, but as the city lies in ruin, they talk about how pleasant this dream is.  Then go on home and have a sleep before the new shift, and they dream that. 

The day passes and there is news about that dictator and how he will not yield.  The news is about these aliens and what they are doing.  There is so much pandemonium, and people living in their cars are looking for work.  Some people who live in their cars are worried about their cars being repossessed.  But asleep in the car they have this pleasant dream.  Some of these people have followed news on that dictator and hope to find out more; have even had a good hearty laugh; follow his sports and wonder what will be coming into his complexes and from where, in desperation they start to go out and seek things, and plan if someone should try to snap of their mirrors.  In the city and round the world many see things just decline and think about the ground going from beneath them.  As they laugh at this there are some who wonder will it be them and they will be laughed at.  

Back at work on the jobs at night, many talk about the dream, and to their amazement, they all had the same pleasant dream and the power and beauty, and no one heard of that dictator.  Conversations develop into what people in the dream asked and that dictator and what they said.  The dream people say that is a terrible place.  Some embrace these dream people as if they were real and talk about them like that.  Some work in warehouses, other in offices, and some work in hospitals, and they talk of this dream and what is to come, those that arrive talk to those that are leaving about the dream and wonder how this happened.  There is concern of what is ahead.  Bills have gone up. 

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