The Eaves of Hearing

Eavesdropping

' Hi .. how are you? … been a long time hasn't it? Its strange … that the more things change … the more they stay the same.'

 

' I never thought I'll be back here … not in a million years. Can you imagine the possibility of something like this happening?'

 

' Its a discernment of some kind … an intuition into the nature of things … subtle … like when two people are speaking but it feels like one.'

 

' Or two people doing something together … but we think its only one person … me … I … who am doing these things.'

 

' I don't suppose you could blame a person for the error.'

 

' Certainly not … feels curious … and strange and wonderful in some way though. You think we'll ever get used to it?'

 

' Will take time I guess … so how's life on Kepler-186f?'

 

' Its just mother … Bob and me. And God's helper comes from time to time to meet with mother.'

 

' How's the old dragon?'

 

' Her rabid best … what else. Says we stole everything from her … that its not possible for humans to be intimated into a universal view … without a dream sense. Its only women … that sort of thing … '

 

' I don't suppose you could blame her. Its been quite a twister on her passions. Thank goodness man's able to separate that into logical reason. '

 

' You think we are having this confusion because of our habituation in the passions?'

 

' Oh … just about 3 million years in the making … tieing everything to the heart … and in some sense … feeling to know … about life.'

 

' Will we ever get the hang of it … you think?'

 

' Practice … practice … practice.'

 

' That might do it. Well … Bob's still not speaking … from the … little accident we had with time. But he hangs out with me … and sometimes I think he's the lucky one … given the way mother goes on … all the time.'

 

' But you guys are staying apart?'

 

' Yeah … yeah … Mum's got this huge place … like something out of the Arabian nights. I've moved out … got a place up on the hills. I'm growing some flower plants and vegetables. Its a small cottage … guess I couldn't quit on that life. Bob's mansion is still the same. He made it to look haunted … says … it resembles the city … we left behind … on the North West.'

 

' So its still the IOL?'

 

' Yeah … well … Imagining Out Loud has been fine for what we used to do. Just played with it… mother is still sticking her blade into us for that. But its … IWEWO … these days. Its new … Imaging With Eyes Wide Open. Bob says it makes more sense for him … and I'm hoping  …  its going to make him like … normal again.'

 

' I'll have to take a look at that … IWEWO?'

 

' Its easier than you think … but on earth it feels like … the sky just fell … and everything is in smithereens.'

 

' Like Kepler-186f … you mean?'

 

' Well not all of it … but its nice to be in touch with Earth that way … so that we are in sync with you guys. Someday we are going to meet up again … and live together. But for now … you know what its like.'

 

' I hear you.'

 

' So you're okay with this?'

 

' Do bumblebees fly?'