THE LEAVES WERE APPLAUDING ...

PERHAPS BECAUSE THEY KNEW SOMETHING THAT I HAD YET TO DISCOVER -
IT'S A PERFECT SUNDAY - THE AROMA OF PURE FRESHNESS FILLS THE AIR WITH A BREEZE THAT GENTLY KISSES THE SKIN -
THIS IS AMERICA! -
THE UGLY STEPCHILD THAT THE REST OF THE WORLD LOVED TO PICK ON- MANY LIVES WERE LOST EMBARKING ON AMERICA COMING FROM EVERY PLACE IMAGINABLE - CHINA- EGYPT- INDIA - ALL OVER THE GLOBE IN ORDER TO LIVE THEIR DREAM THAT AMERICA HAD PROMISED TO THEM- FREEDOM!
THEY, THE IMMIGRANTS, HAD BEEN UNREASONABLY PATIENT, THEY LABORED HARD, AND STRUGGLED TO SAVE TO BOOK PASSAGE, A ONE WAY TICKET TO AMERICA!

WHILE OTHER, PLOTTED TO DESTROY ONE OF THE BEST DREAMS THAT MONEY COULDN'T BUY; THOUGH THE DEVIANTS WERE OUT TO PROVE OTHERWISE - AND THEY WERE ALL-POWERFUL, FOR THEY WERE LIKE HUMAN TERMITES - THAT COULD CHANGE THEIR STRIPES IN AN INSTANT - WITHOUT WARNING, FOR THEY TOOK THEIR ORDERS FROM A RUTHLESS BUNCH SCATTERED THROUGH EVERY CONTINENT FAR AND WIDE - WITH LOYALTY TO NONE - EXCEPT FOR ONE INDIVIDUAL.

A QUEEN WHO DOMINATED NOT WITH WISDOM NOR WITH AN UNDERSTANDING KIND HEART, BUT WITH AN ABRASIVENESS THAT WOULD MAKE THE DEVIL HIMSELF SHUDDER IN HORROR.

IT DID NOT LOSE ME, THE MAN SITTING AHEAD ON THE LEFT, WEARING A BASEBALL CAP - THAT WAS NEW, PART OF HIS COSTUME. I DOUBT THAT HE WAS A FAN OF BASEBALL AT ALL, LARGE EARS TO MATCH HIS MAGNANOMOUS NOSE - AND THE QUEEN MOTHER HAD NAMED HIM, "PRINCE CHARLES", SITTONG ON THE #9507 BUS GOING TO SANTA MONICA BEACH, YET HE GOT OFF BEFORE THAT, PICKING UP MY BRAIN WAVES KNOWING THAT I WAS WRITING ABOUT HIM. WE GOT OFF AT THE SAME STOP, HE, AND ANOTHER GENT, WHO HADN'T SAT TOGETHER ON THE BUS, BUT I SENSED THAT THEY WERE CONSPIRATORS, AND THE ONE WITH THE LARGE EARS HAD TURNED BACK TO SEE IF I WAS CHECKING HIM OUT. I QUICKLY TURNED AWAY, AND HE WALKED LIKE ANY OTHER ORDINARY CITIZEN FOR HE NOW KNEW THAT THE CHARADE HAD BEEN DISCOVERED, THE JIG WAS UP FOR HE AND ALL HIS COHORTS. NO ROYALTY, NO MORE UNDESERVED TTENTION THAT HE AND HIS, HAD BECOME USED TO, WHILE THEY THREW THEIR FAR REACHING NET OUT ACROSS THE WORLD, DICTATING THEIR CASTE SYSTEM.

AND THEIR PALACE, IT WOULD BE DEMOLISHED, FOR THE GLOBAL CITIZENS WERE TIRED OF PAYING FOR IT, AND ALL THE POMP AND CIRCUMSTANCE AS WELL, WHICH WAS NOTHING MORE THAN SMOKE AND MIRRORS.

THE STEP CHILD WAS FULLY GROWN!

(C)COPYRIGHTED BY GWENDOLYN MITCHELL ON SUNDAY, AUGUST 28,AT 2:08 ON THE 704 METRO BUS, DESTINATION, SANTA MONICA BEACH. UPDATED AT THE SANTA MONICA PUBLIC LIBRARY, AT APPROXIMATELY 3:04,3:15PM. USA.

THANK YOU FOR LISTENING AND HAVE A SUPER DAY, I WILL, I'M SPENDING IT AT ONE OF THE HILTONS, PERHAPS!