"...Not big enough for the both of us," said Humphrey with a rather down-in-the-dumps look on his face. To re-emphasize his point Humphrey continued, "You're going to have to pack your bag and clear out of here by tomorrow morning."
"Awww, come on now... you don't realize the drastic nature of what you're saying, Humphrey. You're forgetting who made you into what you are... a really big kahuna in a really small town," was the quick reply. "In fact, what could you really do without me? It seems to me that you've tried to 'go-it-alone' before... have you not?"
Humphrey's initial momentum had begun to waver... it was always obvious as soon as he began to go 'red as a Macintosh' and start to sputter incoherent drabble. "You little %^#@... Who do you think you are? When I picked you out of a garbage can three years ago, I had no idea that I would be in for so much of a bloody painful headache, dealing with your lies!!!" , retorted Humphrey, a little too late.
The battle had already been won.
Humphrey whacked his mushroom against the wall and stormed into the house.
The black sky started to let go of it's rain and the heat started to release it's hold on the earth.
The purple and pink Cheshire cat faded into the shade of the elm tree and things returned to the way they always seemed.
Until the growling of a rather large Irish Wolfhound created a situation that made Humphrey's words seem agreeably decent.
2 comments:
Humphrey is a metaphorical person for us all... I guess one would read into him as the archetypal chooser of what we value. The Cheshire Cat, to myself anyway, always symbolized what we don't need in our lives... what we are fighting against... although maybe we don't know it at the time or we don't even want to fight it because we like it or want it. The Irish Wolfhound to me symbolizes the action of a choice put into motion... the power of a choice once we know that it is the right thing to do and are no longer looking back behind us to see if that choice is correct or not. This will continue in my next post. I'm glad you found it interesting.
Anders.
Okay, I had to create my own blog to post this, but I just have to say that your post about the metaphorical chesire cat made me laugh! That was totally confusing.
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