GIVE ME PAUSE

19. GIVE ME PAUSE:

“A mentally challenged man named Sam strolled right in said ‘strike up the band’ and the crowd went wild or so it seemed as stagelights flickered and the piano man preened” but that was all I heard of the story because they were passing the hat and I hadn’t any unnecessary money to give them so I moved on but kept wondering on the rest of that story or at least what it could have been and it MUST GIVE ME PAUSE to even stop to think what I might have missed but oh well anyway now it’s over and done so when I saw the stone roses on that churchyard wall I stopped just a moment to stare and my mind RUMINATING upon itself said to me wordlessly ‘I could have lied but who would save the world?’