For 10 days it was suspended above the Earth
it cried everyday and night
saddened over the world or confused and scared
who could say
most said ‘both’ with a shrug
they formed religions to it, tossing their Bibles
until the hyper giant tears flooded the cities
and then also the countryside
(which irritated the ones who thought they were the true chosen
you know because the city folk are all heathen sinners, and like
why the thing was even crying in the first place)
and they got over it real fast
and they started throwing things at it
because it also kept them up all day and night
in total, they threw 230,987,124,780,123.5 objects at it
including the Bibles they tossed
they rushed the landfills and found them
and then just tossed them straight up
some people got hit on the head by falling Bibles
and straight up died
those Thomas Nelson ones are heavy
the thing continued to cry
until the world nearly flooded
and then it disappeared
and this also caused a number of bad things to happen
satellites taken offline in such number that
the internet basically died
people threw even more objects, in anger, at the spot where the thing had been
around 345,678,980,342,400.2 objects
and then the tears came again, from the nothing that was there, drowning what was left.
Love the use of numbers in this. Wonder what they mean to the author.