Art by Milosaur
It’s 11:11 p.m. Sometimes it’s 12:12 a.m. And other times
it’s 3:33 or, maybe, it’s 4:56. These
are clock times which snag my imagination. They happen mostly the dark hours,
when I wake up, check the time, shake my head and stagger off to the bathroom,
or to let the cat out, or to wander around the house for a bit until my old
joints unkink a little so I can go back to sleep. I suppose I shouldn’t waste
time thinking about whether it means anything, but the problem is that during
the 60’s I dabbled in numerology, and that even earlier, sitting on the floor
to the off-stage right of a Barbadian bar, I read books about ancient aliens
visiting earth, prehistoric collisions with Venus, or African tribes who knew
all about the invisible-to-the-naked-eye-dwarf companion of the blue giant
star, Sirius. I’ve been soaking in this other-worldly, one-brick-shy-of-a-load
content since I was a post war child, with predictable results.
Whenever I wake up I always look at the clock, and because
there is usually some variation of what I take to be a “meaningful”
configuration, I’ve begun to imagine these are messages—from somewhere, about
something. Don’t ask me what, although I’ve spent plenty of nights wondering.
Are these omens, messages from a hitherto uncommunicative
universe?
Will the TARDIS land in my bedroom?
Is something from some hideous Lovecraftian dimension with
three toes and along snaky snout waiting just behind the door?
Is my ship—long awaited—about to come in?
Or is it all simply a series of unrelated events, just
“random chaos ”(as one of my friends has it) business as usual on this
particular plane?
Juliet Waldron
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