It was Tuesday but it felt like Wednesday and when it suddenly dawned on me that it was Tuesday I sighed at the thought of the long week ahead. The truck whacked me with such force against the traffic light I hardly felt it. Then it surged over me, the pain, red wetness all over me. I felt high. The pain was indescribable. Everything went into slow motion. I switched off from the noise of people screaming. I wanted to close my eyes and sleep but pinned where I was, I was in no position to tell them to be quiet. I felt the tap on my shoulder. It made me smile. My dad always said that when the man taps you on the shoulder and says it´s time to go, well it´s time to go and that´s that. It made me laugh that he actually tapped me on the shoulder. I couldn´t turn around so he slided up to my face. The sight of her, him or it terrified me. It was an enormous pink dinosaur.
“Hey I thought you´d at least carry a scythe and be dressed in black for the occasion!” I said through bloody tears and some kind of foam and green bile that flowed from my mouth.
“You can´t say anything, you´re no pin up yourself.” replied the disgusted dinosaur. Then it added, “You got the sign so let´s be off. Normally I let inquisitive creatures have one question before we go but seeing as you are an atheist I think you´ve already asked the right questions.”
“No, we most certainly will not.” I replied angrily. “It took a long life of learning and reading and trying out different religions and inventing my own beliefs and suffering from other people´s twisted sadistic ones that got me to this state of calm that I´m in right now. I know there is no life after death and I´ll be damned if I´m going to follow you to a land full of pink cheerful looking dinosaurs. I want it to end, not to continue.”
“ I´m not really a pink dinosaur, I´m a figment of your imagination as is all this. But what I really am is a channel in which the energy that you are can transform into another energy.”
“Oh no, not reincarnation!” I pleaded. “I just want to sleep.”
“Oh you will sleep,” said the dinosaur, “and you will be totally unaware of how your body will go back into the earth it fed off and exploited for years. Your rotting flesh will feed the worms and they will crawl through the earth and it will all go full circle. Humans flatter themselves with notions that they will be reincarnated into higher beings. Well be flattered. Your energy will go into one little earthworm and that little earthworm will do more good than any of your kind ever did.”
“I think I can die peacefully with that thought.” I replied.
“Of course you can, it´s a real honour and this is all only your imagination anyway.”answered the smiling pink dinosaur who was now sponging my face clean.
“One more thing…” I began, but the dinosaur evaporated and with it so did I.