it wasn't that nobody understood what happened at the Memphis Ohio Bridge
and it wasn't that nobody saw the strange light beam that seem to come from the heaven's above to cause the explosion of the bridge .It was that the people of Memphis Ohio had come to understand that not only were they not supposed to see anymore what occurred in from of their eyes but they also were not supposed to speak with others about strange occurrences that did not quite gel with the Mayor of Memphis Ohio's explanations. There seemed to be some agreement in the last decade or so that if one spoke about certain things not only might they be asking for trouble by the Powers that Seize .
And also that the mere mention of discordant facts would be
intruding upon some new plan ,some new order of things
that most citizens had embraced - in fact made it RIGHT- not to see and hear or think about things except based on the "facts" one was told .
Congressman Ken's Ex Wife Petra felt she would be breaking an unwritten rule if she dared
speak about her misgivings concerning the tragedy to a friend or neighbor
For if she did she felt she would be intruding on another's new permission to completely overlook not just one's common sense but one's very senses.
For 2 days Petra watched the big story on TV
that had nothing whatsoever to do with the explosive of the Memphis Ohio Bridge that initially a newscaster she would never see again had said was done by perhaps a Kinetic Space based weapon
Instead the Big Story concerned a young man stealing a golf cart from the municipal golf course
and going on a Low Speed chase with the golf cart's trunk reportedly full of stolen gold balls
Petra pressed button after button on her remote
to find serious coverage of incident at the Memphis Ohio bridge
but on every channel was the Golf Cart caper
on every other channel coverage of some man running for office who used to be on some program called "Crawfish Bosses"
it seemed to Petra that the news now was not reported or covered by grown ups
and grown ups were to learn how to re-align their desire to know
the truth
towards the need to understand the reason certain truths were somehow meant to be suppressed.
Petra almost felt complicit watching the newscasters reporting all the wrong stories.
Somehow childish and reduced .Patronized
.As if only the grown -ups
.The real grown ups with
the real money and power and facts had the right or disposition to handle "the truth"
for days the helicopters followed the golf cart from the air
where one could see a seemingly endless swarm of police cars chase the young man in the cart
for hours the areal view of Memphis Ohio was captured like never before.
However every time the pluming smoke from the still burning Memphis Ohio Bridge entered the cameraman's frame the helicopter and hence the over head view swerved back
and back to
the driver of the runway golf cart who ,as if on cue would stop the cart momentarily and throw out onto the road
a large handful of stolen golf balls
Presumably meant to stop traffic or injure other drivers.
And also insinuate the danger and importance of this being The Big Story
-
And the chase continued.
Well into the evening news cycle.
and it wasn't that nobody saw the strange light beam that seem to come from the heaven's above to cause the explosion of the bridge .It was that the people of Memphis Ohio had come to understand that not only were they not supposed to see anymore what occurred in from of their eyes but they also were not supposed to speak with others about strange occurrences that did not quite gel with the Mayor of Memphis Ohio's explanations. There seemed to be some agreement in the last decade or so that if one spoke about certain things not only might they be asking for trouble by the Powers that Seize .
And also that the mere mention of discordant facts would be
intruding upon some new plan ,some new order of things
that most citizens had embraced - in fact made it RIGHT- not to see and hear or think about things except based on the "facts" one was told .
Congressman Ken's Ex Wife Petra felt she would be breaking an unwritten rule if she dared
speak about her misgivings concerning the tragedy to a friend or neighbor
For if she did she felt she would be intruding on another's new permission to completely overlook not just one's common sense but one's very senses.
For 2 days Petra watched the big story on TV
that had nothing whatsoever to do with the explosive of the Memphis Ohio Bridge that initially a newscaster she would never see again had said was done by perhaps a Kinetic Space based weapon
Instead the Big Story concerned a young man stealing a golf cart from the municipal golf course
and going on a Low Speed chase with the golf cart's trunk reportedly full of stolen gold balls
Petra pressed button after button on her remote
to find serious coverage of incident at the Memphis Ohio bridge
but on every channel was the Golf Cart caper
on every other channel coverage of some man running for office who used to be on some program called "Crawfish Bosses"
it seemed to Petra that the news now was not reported or covered by grown ups
and grown ups were to learn how to re-align their desire to know
the truth
towards the need to understand the reason certain truths were somehow meant to be suppressed.
Petra almost felt complicit watching the newscasters reporting all the wrong stories.
Somehow childish and reduced .Patronized
.As if only the grown -ups
.The real grown ups with
the real money and power and facts had the right or disposition to handle "the truth"
for days the helicopters followed the golf cart from the air
where one could see a seemingly endless swarm of police cars chase the young man in the cart
for hours the areal view of Memphis Ohio was captured like never before.
However every time the pluming smoke from the still burning Memphis Ohio Bridge entered the cameraman's frame the helicopter and hence the over head view swerved back
and back to
the driver of the runway golf cart who ,as if on cue would stop the cart momentarily and throw out onto the road
a large handful of stolen golf balls
Presumably meant to stop traffic or injure other drivers.
And also insinuate the danger and importance of this being The Big Story
-
And the chase continued.
Well into the evening news cycle.
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