When United States
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson found himself wandering
in the woods, having no recollection of how he gotten there, he shrugged his
shoulders and just walked on.
Humming
a gospel to himself, Ben admired the trees and the leaves, the sticks at his
feet and the moss growing up and over it all.
A bird called out and Ben called back to the bird.
The
bird swooped down and landed upon Ben’s shoulder and tweeted hello.
Ben took out his mobile phone and
tweeted hello back to the bird. The bird looked down
at what Ben was doing and then said, “hey dummy, I tweet cause I am a bird and
birds tweet. You are a human being and humans talk, so talk to me, don’t send
me a fucking tweet you dumbass.”
And
Ben smiled and laughed his cute unassuming laugh and said “oh, you are so right
Mr. Bird, I do so apologise. If it had been
God’s will for a bird to send me a tweet via Twitter then he would have given a
bird thumbs. So Mr.Bird, can you
tell me what I am doing out here in the woods?” And
the bird looked at Ben, picked a deertick out of his afro and said “look man, if you
don’t know why you are out here, then you don’t know why you are anywhere.” And the
bird flew away and Ben said “Bye bye, Mr. Bird.
Thank you and tweet tweet.”
Ben
continued walking further into the woods, admiring the sky above him and the land below
him. Up ahead he noticed a full grown
Buck with a head full of mighty antlers. The
Buck stood still staring at the approaching ex-neurosurgeon. Ben stopped about 10 yards away from the Buck
and said “Well hello Mr.Buck, good day to you.
Maybe you can help me. I seem to
be a bit lost and am unsure why I am
here in the woods at all?”
And
the Buck looked at Ben and said, “Hey buddy, you obviously choose the wrong path
to follow and if you’re lost it is probably
your own fault.” And Ben replied, “well
if that is the case then I believe that Jesus will help rectify my situation and show me the safe way out of
the woods.” The Buck who was only half listening, replied, “I am
glad you feel that way buddy, good luck with that.”
The Buck walked off into the woods and Ben began humming his gospel
again.
And
Ben saw that storm clouds above his head were turning the woods darker and
darker. In the distance Ben could hear
the sound of thunder rumbling and a cold breeze began to blow through the
woods. Drops of rain began to fall
through the leaves of the trees. Ben
felt a storm coming.
Quickening
his pace through the woods, Ben came across a small hut built out of sticks and
leaves and mud and moss. There was a
small door to the hut and Ben tried to push it open. But the hut was locked. The rain began to fall harder and harder and
thunder and lightening began to fill the woods with an ominious tension. Ben began to feel a sense of fear overcome
him. With all his might Ben pushed the
door open to the hut. The door gave way
and flew open. Ben fell into the hut and
quickly slammed the door closed behind him.
Using the light from his cellphone, Ben was able to see around inside the hut. The hut was empty. No bed, no table, no chair, no nothing, no central heating. Ben was relieved to be out of the rain and
felt the fear that had overcome him begin to fade away. He felt safe, for shelter from a storm is one thing that makes a man feel safe and secure.
A
bolt of lightening lit up the hut and the thunder clap shook the ground beneath
him. Then Ben heard a knock on the
door. Ben waited, as that sense of fear
crept back into him. The knock came once again, louder. Ben walked over to the door and slowly opened it. Outside the door stood
an American Black bear. “Hello, can I
help you?” said Ben to the bear. The
bear stood up upon its hind legs and and with its front left paw removed a
letter from under its fur. “Mr.Carson," the bear began reading from the letter, "you have illegally taken up residence in a FEMA home not entitled for your inhabitation. As a governmental appointed guardian of these woods, I am hereby
enforced to serve you notice to vacate the premises immediately
or I will be within my rights to either arrest you or maul you to death, as governmental bears are trained to do.”
Ben
stood there in the small hut in the middle of the forest. For a moment he had even forgotten that he
had no idea why he was in the woods in the first place. Ben began humming the gospel again and
contimplated his situation. He was a well educated man and knew that he could either
stand his ground against the opression of this great black bear or run and flee back into the haunted
woods of fear and temptation. The Black
bear just stood there impatienly waiting. From
behind the first bear a second one appeared and asked “hey man, what’s the hold
up?” The first bear repsonded by saying,
“this motherfucker claims that he doesn’t know what he’s doing here and seems
to be refusing to leave.” Ben just stood
there humming his gospel, smiling at the bears. “Well just tase his stupid ass and we’ll drag him out of
here for trespassing.” The first bear
looked at the second, “You know what, fuck it, this dude ain't worth all the paperwork? Let’s just get out of here and leave him be to rot.” The bears snorted at Ben
then turned and walked back into the woods.
Ben
closed the door to the hut then sat down on the ground. Still humming his gospel, he returned to
wondering why in the first place he was out here in the woods. The rain began to fall even harder upon the
roof of the hut. He figured as always
that Jesus had a plan for him. A small
leak in the roof had caused a puddle of mud to start forming on the floor. Ben began to pray that the rain would not flood the hut. Then he began to hum the gospel even louder.