The Einstein Man: Chapter Two Poem by Lonnie Hicks

”Here sit a little closer, ” she said, “this I can see will be a private talk.

So go on stranger, ' she said, 'tell me how you got to be Albert Einstein and mind you this is beginning to feel like a three-beer, two bags of popcorn conversation.”

“Skeptical I see.” he said with mock resignation. “I get that a lot.”

“I bet you do.” she said “call me unsurprised. She stared at him intently peering into his eyes finally saying:

”Now let’s get down to cases. What planet are we talking about here? ”

His eyes got a far away look in them and she could see him trying to visualize something.

He sighed looked at her intently, finally saying:

“Best to show you.”

With that he put his palm out and extended it toward her, looking around to see who else was watching.

The palm started to glow with a greenish tint and slowly a picture of a sun and five planets appeared in the center of his palm.

The third one, ” he said “that is where I am from.”

She was flabbergasted and she two started to look around to see who might be watching the two of them, her face glowing from the light in his palm.

'My God, ' she said, 'I can’t believe my eyes. How, ' she stammered, 'did you do that? '

As quickly as it appeared the image had gone away and he was saying:

“I live in the constellation of Virgo which is what you folks call it and my planet, my sun, my galaxy and hundreds of other galaxies or being sucked right out of our universe into some other universe.

'Your astronomers know about it they call it Dark Flow.'

“You an astronomer.” she said lamely.

“Nope, ' he said 'I am Randy, at least I have his body and ideas, but I am also Albert, I have his brain.”

“So you are Randy Albert? ”

“Well yes, in a way, I have both as part of my atomic structure.”

She ordered a shot of bourbon.


To be continued