Speaking of a strange happening:

In the early 1970s I'm on this crowded bus on my way to work in downtown Pittsburgh and I'm happy to get a seat..

But this woman is standing in front of me and she's obviously seen her better day.

She is dressed like a street person and she doesn't have the cleanest smell in the world-if you get my drift.

But what is even more disturbing is that this woman keeps singing this song:
       Ah Mer Ree KA
       is the last stop
       of the last trip
       of Christ 2,000 year old
       journey through SPACE!

She stands there in front of me staring at no one connecting with no one but singing this verse over and over again while people on the bus try to act like nothing unusual is occuring.

So I sit there pretending to read a book about something or the other but I can't help hear her words
       Ah Mer Ree KA
       is the last stop
       of the last trip
       of Christ 2,000 year old
       journey through SPACE!

Then all of a sudden she stops singing and looks me dead in the eye and says in a regular speaking voice- "You remember this now". And do something with your HAIR!! {I wore a large Afro then which was new style in that city}.

I said "Yes Mam." politely, since she was older than me and I was taught to respect my elders. She nods her head at me. And then- like she had never said a word to me- starts right back into her song.
       Ah Mer Ree KA
       is the last stop
       of the last trip
       of Christ 2,000 year old
       journey through SPACE!

And more than 30 years later I remember that experience and think
"Maybe she's right". Maybe this is the last stop of the last trip of Christ 2,000 year old journey through space. And what will happen when Christ's space ship lands?

I wonder.



Ms. Azizi