SPACE SHIP  (in the It Happens series)

It happens.

We imagined if we hid in the back of a space ship at Cape Kennedy or Kazakhstan as a astronaut

or cosmonaut we could actually fly to the moon.

We corresponded between two countries as pen pals. Yet as we attempted to board with our home

schooled passes we met other creatures who where none too friendly who captured us, put us

on the back of the bus and the world never heard of us.

But one of the most outrageous creatures with strange features called up the C I.A. and K.G.B.

respectively saying we were kidnapped and taken in for questioning and sent to the opposite

country all the years of the cold war.

Igor become Jimmy and I was Igor. I was sent to Cuba with the Venceramos Brigade to cut

sugar cane and met with  members of the Fair Play for Cuba committee and Jimmy was aligned

with Progressive Worker Children as spies.

Jimmy met a guy who the press claimed killed a president and I met so many red diaper

babies who were in the nuclear freeze movement and almost sent to Siberia.

We found a neutral place to meet but the creatures were still around, snapping our pictures

for their files now hopefully in the dead letter box.

We learned each others languages and the authorities knew what we liked in bed. At every job

interview or on any date the weird creatures showed up to hypnotize us. They despised

"earthlings" as they called us.

They tried to make us as the enemy and pretended to befriend humanity. Jimmy got a hold

on their space craft and blew it up. The next hour it was back.

No one would believe our story in the literati or the daily press.