Look down on the sidewalk, streaking along across the firmament, it's a chewing gum comet. Streaming a trail of semi-solid guar gum, artificial flavors and colours it is evidence of life in other dimensions of the universe. This strange visitor from the edges of life as we know it began it's journey inside the crucible of creation for all chewing gum comets.
It's life commenced inside the cataclysmic dark and mysterious orifice of an unknown mouth. And so it is that we see this unique piece of debris only briefly, as it undergoes the tortured journey of all gum comets, it's fate sealed by the heat of an unrelenting sun and passing encounters with errant shoes.
Soon it will fade from memory, a hardened shell of it's former glory pressure washed into the gutter of eternity, replaced by new comets, brilliant, multi-hued fragments of the cosmos, reminders that somewhere beyond our understanding destiny will in time bring them also into our view.
It's life commenced inside the cataclysmic dark and mysterious orifice of an unknown mouth. And so it is that we see this unique piece of debris only briefly, as it undergoes the tortured journey of all gum comets, it's fate sealed by the heat of an unrelenting sun and passing encounters with errant shoes.
Soon it will fade from memory, a hardened shell of it's former glory pressure washed into the gutter of eternity, replaced by new comets, brilliant, multi-hued fragments of the cosmos, reminders that somewhere beyond our understanding destiny will in time bring them also into our view.
