The Pother the Moon is in

The ‘Moon’ has its phases. Well, who doesn’t know that! It’s only ‘full’ on a single day of the month and some say it is the salary day of the Moon! Arrant nonsense, doesn’t the moon have a responsibility towards the family and children. Are there any bigger duties than taking care of them properly and shunting them to school/workplace and back every day? And what wonder, the Moon is involved in them all the other days of the month. Tell us, where is the time to go to work? Of course there is the wireless communication to rule remotely, isn’t there?

No one would dare to say anything about the Moon’s absence too, if they fear their lives!

But curiously, on the calendar the Moon attends his office every single day. Well what of that? It has a duty to ‘be present’ everyday even if it’s not around anywhere in the sky. Who can blame the poor Moon, he is doing his best, and can you imagine the trouble he undergoes to climb up the sky once a month to its place in the heavens? But what about the vigilantes, who are entrusted with the duties of over-seeing even the Moon? Well what about them? They are in the payroll of the Moon too, it is rumored. It’s them that give the courage to the Moon to stay absent, the grape wine whispers.

Not even the Sun blames the Moon. At least they both practice the same trade, so naturally they have to back each other up, don’t they? Okay there could still be some fools who murmur against such things. But who cares as long as the Sun and Moon are in power and as long as they have money to eliminate those who speak against them!

And the Sun is also reported to have given the go-ahead to the process of elimination, some say. Naturally the Moon has passed it on to his goons who are fattened by long periods of inactivity allotted by the Moon and are ready to murder anyone who goes against the wishes of the moon, for money and favors of course! They have recently been given chairs and tables in open places to read their glossies, can you beat that? You think it’s brazen and that they would shrink before visitors who come to the place? You dream, they are the new working class who rarely attend work. They know how to get by in life claiming only the rights and ignoring their duties. The Moon, being a terrible “populist’ is all in favor of the philosophy.

If you don’t believe this, come to the heavens and have a see! These goons are turning into proper heller’s and some of them are turning on sheer and pure terror. They couldn’t be proper terrorists could they be? One misdoubts but then who knows? Man, one has to fear to write these. You can imagine the kind of faces and animosity these goons can exhibit. They ooze murder and mayhem and are protected by all the absentees who are out there.

They have even started threatening the other heavenly bodies who try to do their duty, if possible, in the murky atmosphere. Poor dutiful heavenly bodies, they are currently quaking in fright, it is reported. These lovely goons come in all colors and shapes and are further backed up by the ‘sodalities’ that are supposed to represent the rest of the work force in the heavens other than the Moon and Sun and the major heavenly bodies.

Well the Moon can do it all alone without any help, his deputy whispers. So okay, the Moon has several interests that mint money like rabbits and is the lord of underworld wealth! What of it? It can remain in its home and construct palaces in other places. It is the master of health and can even spring magic mansions up in the heavens if it wants. It even burns its chariots down and gets fresh ones if need be, with the kind help of the Sun of course.

The only ‘pother’ the Moon has experienced in the recent times is the trouble it gets from misguided ‘right to information’ fanatics! They would seek information on everything that the Moon or his satellites has a mind not to approve. One would wonder why such trouble makers are there in the world at all. What if the great Moon declined permission to start an honest business? If it is a business shouldn’t the business-man do ‘business’ with the Moon first, otherwise how is Moon to know that it is a real business?

We should feel sorry for the Moon and its vassals. What if the last 18 years have been not productive for the Moon’s office? That’s how the intelligent guys run things, is it not? Bother about social responsibilities. Is it not enough that one gets paid every month even if one stays at home? That’s how socialism is going to come. Is there any doubt about that?

One can’t really criticize the Moon, he has a kind and large heart and he permits everyone to be errant too. Even if you are going to be killed, do nothing worthwhile at all; does the world need our efforts to make it better? The only real option is to make it worse, let’s check if the world can come back from what we do! We dare the world to ever come back; we have wrung its neck!

The Moon’s advice is, If possible use only off color remarks to those who come to work regularly, punctuality, as you know, is not welcome in the holy heavens! Promote such behavior and that is the only social service one can do. There could be those who are against this policy. But that is holy Moons policy, and who would dare oppose?


The Sun had once tried its level best to get it across to Moon that there are other ways to do things “you got everything here except productivity”. The Sun is said to have remarked to the Moon when he came for a visit to his sub domain. But as you would know, the Moon has something called the ‘gift of the gab’ and immediately retorted, ‘what work is possible here in the hellish ‘Heavens’?’ The shocked Sun did not even venture to speak further. And of course the vassals of the Moon clapped their hands in delight till they swooned off.

“It’s our master the great Moon, whew”, they murmured. “No one can put our moon to his place. Not even the Sun, not even the government of the whole world, let someone try! We will do away with them all, we swear on our dearest god Groucho Max.”

For they all belong to this same ‘Old faith’ you know, the Moon and his vassals. One of these days they are going to raise their banner in the most reverent of places, they are sure of that! They don’t wish to raise other flags, it’s a majority decision. They would decimate everyone who oppose. They of course don’t have to fear the bloodshed, for it is they who are planning to shed the blood of others, what if innocent blood is shed, it’s for a great cause, that of ruining the world.

At certain locations the ‘training’ for the takeover is progressing it is rumored in the highest of places. There is said to be a convergence of all the necessary elements in the heavenly fields and some fear that another revolution is in the offing. It’s going to be ‘the dictatorship of……’ (You know what) from then onwards! Man, the way we are trying to change the world!

If the Moon and his vassals ever learn about these lines they might murder the writer. It is learned that they have already sought the help from all quarters, even that of alien gods to get even with everybody that criticize their “good work”.

The writer is verily shitting in his pants, is there anybody to help!

Anyway long live Moon and his intelligent cronies!