The Poet a Story of Biblical per portions Chapter Two

                                                                                    The  Millennium Man

Mean while aboard a C-5 Galaxy everyone is scrambling about, fiddling with switches, dials, and plugs. A Damage Control team is repairing pressurize hoses from which inert gases  are escaping. Soldiers are suiting up and checking weapons.The Pilots are going over checks and navigation's. The whole bird is preparing to land and secure the Albert  E. 

A young Margaret Beres is still filming the flickering rainbow entity. It continues to repeat the same flashing cycle over and over. The entity looks as any other man would when it is not caged, although when he is caged he has no set appearance. This is one of the very reasons, leading this team of scientist to believe they have caught a ghostly spirit.

Donald is contained by the " Cube"  The Cube is a Laser framed box that contains a gas of unknown origin, This gas was retrieved from a secret space probe back in September  1959 from the tail of the Comet  Alock. On September 11 th 1959 this probe broke orbit and plummeted to Earth.

This malfunction was keep secrete until the year 1997 when it was found by Thomas Detwiller frozen solid in the Atlantic Ocean.
Tom Detwiller was a quiet kid that grew up in Donnie Douglas's very own  neighborhood, Tom was a fun guy to be around back then but, he left right after high school to work with Jac Cuesto as an Oceanographic Scientist. Tom's dad still lives on that same old block in the Town of Hobart, Indiana. 

Margaret knows if they lose this gas contained in  the Cube that she will only have enough  left over to try one more capture. A second attempt and she is unsure if she will still have enough of the comet's gases to contain him until they reach Area 51
Her only hope is they can duplicate this gas.  Or she can decipher her Grandfathers notes left to him by Nichola Tesla on his "Tesla Shield" This Shield is believed to be able to duplicate her "Absolute Zero" device know as the "Cube" But it is still a long way from being understood by any of the current minds of the times.

The pilots voice comes over the intercom: five minutes till we break into the ruff stuff  Margaret spouts off in a worried voice: The ruff stuff, what in the hell does he call this? Captain's voice again : We will becoming in a little hot. Margaret shouting what the hell does that mean? Secure all personnel and all weapons I repeat all weapons. What weapons she shouts but, no one seems to be paying her any mind. 

Again the Captains voice is herd: All safety's on, I repeat that's all safety's on brace for impact. Margaret has worked herself into a small panic attack.  Agent Ty Thomas Ty has come to her aide, he starts to reassure her that everything will work out for the best.

As he fastens her seat-belt he tells her. Don't worry Ma'am the Icelander's have the best snow removal team out of all of the military bases in the world today. They have all the newest equipment and their search and recovery team is topnotch too. Will be just fine The Captain likes to stir up the fear in the men before we land he says it gets the adrenaline flowing. That twisted fuck, says : Margaret are you sure we be okay? I'd stake our lives on it. Oh gee that is so reassuring.

How often has he landed in weather like this? Ty responses, first time for everything Ma'am or at least this bird, it has only been on three missions and two of them were yours. What do you mean were, we are still on this one. My mistake Ma'am my mistake. Oh I am going to be sick! Margaret says to Ty. He hands her an airsickness bag, some of the young Marines start chanting Chuck! Chuck! Chuck! Ty yells out an order to them. Shut up you maggot's! Give the lady a break its her first crash landing. That's an order!
As he finishes. Margaret, blows chunks! The Marines shout out Ooorah! In unison.

Agent Ty calls to  another Agent named Myers, Myers give me your handkerchief. Ty passes it to Margaret she wipes her face off and tries to hand it back to Myers. Keep it Ma'am. Keep it. Margaret asks in a slightly distressed voice when are we going to land? Agent Ty Smiles a shit eating grin we are already on the Deck Ma'am. Confused Margaret st-udders out the word what? I didn't feel a thing. Myers pops off "the Captain is the best there is." Damn you Ty! Damn you all ta hell! After all this is the worlds most advanced aircraft, Albert Einstein seen to that before he passed.

                                                                                         [Flash Back to Modern day 2010]
Donnie is now forty-seven years old. He lives in and old two story house that has been converted into three apartments. In the town of Hobart, In. This is were Donnie grew up and played football when he was a freshman, soft-more, and junior he didn't play his senior year but, he did win a starting position. Donnie left school early to join the Navy with his buddy Tyrone but, Reagan's budget cuts delay him six months. So he ended up being and airman in Iceland instead of, an aircraft mechanic in Honolulu.
    He works twelve hour shifts, driving a taxi for an old pool buddy, he has been doing this for a good two months now and has started doing it seven days a week. He lives alone in this crappy apartment that leans to one side North he thinks. He has gotten most of his furniture from trash  left out on the upscale side of  the neighboring towns. The bed he is sleeping on is and old popped camper bed the blow-up kind. So he bought a sheet of plywood and found an old futon mattress. He is barely getting by his health is starting to suffer again, but he has picked up a pen and started to write his memoirs down a self therapy skill he picked up after his discharge from the Navy.
   He has moved back to town from Salt Lake City Utah wear he had manage to convince a V.A. Doctor he was well enough to drive a Semi Tractor and trailer. He did this while waiting for his eldest half sister to get off her probation for cooking Meth. He returned home to his home town. When he received a call from Laura another one of his half sisters of which he has five total.  He was working about five and a half months for this company with only a week to go before he would be off his probation period and get his insurance. Which in turn would led to his getting of his Social Security Disability But, as usual something came up.

He was down in southern Indiana when he received a call from his ex-wife and she never calls never. He couldn't make out what it was she said so he kind of shrugged it off,  when one of his other sister calls shortly there after.  Judy, she tells him his daughter has been Life-flighted to Chicago's Children's Hospital. So he quickly tries to call back his ex but, his cell phone slowly dies and it was just took-en off the charger, of all the luck he shouts! he is now very worried and pulls over and tries to get in touch with his dispatcher but, no answer on his qual-com or the land-line so he calls Laura one of his middle sisters the one he has been staying with. She doesn't know what is what and can't reach his wife Donna. Now is really in a panic because she always returns Laura's calls. With in an hour he can't take it any more and Decides to drop his load of rubber that was headed to Mexico and heads for Chicago instead. Knowing fully well this could end his Truck driving Career.

While  in the Hospital in Chicago his daughter is slowly dying and they have little hope for her survival, Donnie has always had a sixth sense when it comes to the people he loves and cares about. He has the accelerator mashed to the floor in his semi-truck
But, the damn thing is governed at 66 mph and it is a grueling three and a half hours to get to his home town, wear he can swap the truck out and barrow a buddy's car to get to Chicago. When he finely gets into his daughters room she awakens to see him and shortly there after starts to make a turn for the better. As he sits across from his ex-wife and her new boy-friend whom she has already had a son by. He, Donnie must get out of the room and get some coffee. In he gift shop he is given a pen and small pad of paper from a Veit Nam Vet. with the same exact tattoo of an eagle and a sun on his upper right arm, as does Donnie. Donnie sits and writes the poem Distasteful Lies and Butterflies  one of the first poems he has written since Night School. it takes him about five minutes ta do he lets the Vet. read it the Vet. has tears in his eyes and tells Donnie that he is "The Poet"

Donnie giggles not me brother not me, the vet smiles, he is missing two of his front teeth and one of the wheels on his chair has a distinct wobble as he rolls away. Softly he whispers to himself you are now damn it. Since 1997 Donnie has not worked due to a back injury, he has and still is on Social Security Disability. He has tried many things to get himself off and out  of this shameful position has he thinks of it. everything he has tried has failed in one way or the other. This truck driving thing was the best thing to happen for him in a long long time.