The Big Kettle Drum Is Beating

A man in a dirtied, blue checkered bathrobe stood on a street corner waving a cardboard sign: THE END IS NIGH. The cloth belt of the bathrobe swayed as he pumped the sign up and down and spoke his truth: “The universe is shaped like a kettle drum! Somebody’s beating on it and messing it all up!” How the people laughed. Didn’t he know the universe was a sphere? They laughed and ignored his message…