Anthony & Daisy Posited An Idea - Once

Okay – so there’s this girl at the Back of the class – and she’s always Got her nose in the pages of a book – I mean he’s never even seen her face, That’s how much she’s literally ingrained Herself into the damn things – and there’s This boy at the front of the class – athletic, nice, Popular, generically handsome – the son only Every humble farmer wishes for when they have Premarital sex with their neighbors daughter And – right now you’re thinking you, me, and Dupree know where this is going – But let me stop you right there – You don’t know crap. Okay – so there’s this dance their little hick School holds every year – the kind of dance they Have at a motel with the drunken community College guys leering at the edges of the vicinity, Trying to catch onto some of their high school Glory years – the boy, Anthony, is in line to get Punch for his date – the girl, Daisy, is at home And deeply engrossed in some Shakespeare While heating up the bottle for the baby And – then there was this meteor that passed Over – it wasn’t anything particularly special or Remarkable about it – just another hunk of rock And ice skirting off the edge of the atmosphere – But something must have been remarkable about It because, suddenly, they’re both outside – he’s out In his tattered Converses and rented tux, crunching on Broken beer bottles and she’s out in her nightgown and Pigtail braids, Shakespeare firmly in hand, and swimming In the high grass – And they’re both chasing this silly, inert Hunk of rock because it’s just so Goddamn remarkable – the Most wonderful thing that’s ever happened to this damn town Since the history of forever – this was going to be the thing that Was going to define them – that was going to tell them what they Were going to do for the rest of their allotted time on this miserable, Spinning, blue marble Okay – so after a buildup like that – This whole thing has got to be some Kind of wonderful – yeah? No. It passed by, slowly, silently – and they kept staring at the empty hollow It left in their vision – hoping that the meaning of it all would just be Suddenly exposed to them – but there was nothing – nothing at all. Time passed. The boy and the girl never met, They never learned some kind of life-altering Message about the meaning of life, how could They? It was just a hunk of rock – how could it Know anything about life? Nothing was learned and to nothingness returned. Some apple that was, huh?