Einstein's Riddle, Mash-Up

This is a dedication to 2014.

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A fellow encountered a bear in a wasteland. There was nobody else there. Both were frightened and ran away.  

Fellow to the north, bear to the west. Suddenly, the fellow stopped, aimed his gun south and shot the bear. What colour was the bear?

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Close my eyes in the shade.

Hiding downstairs, did I catch a glimpse of the summer before it faded?

 

The good Lord will take me before I give up, but beneath my mind is an earthquake.

Shimmering behind doors, because the good Lord is not yours, would anyone even believe?

 

Wish for what you want to be, dare not to deceive, the truth seeker.

 

‘Who are you? Einstein?’

 

Nah, because day by day, I fall.

Open my eyes wide from far too many close calls.

 

I'd better run fast:

The Hunter is coming for me.

 

The past was forecast years ago when I sold my soul to drugs and rock n’ roll.

I pray, smoking cigarettes in city pubs and nightclubs, I guess.

Watching me from afar, all could see my sweating regret that I emit in a karaoke bar.

 

It’s anything but the gin for me, camarero.

I imagine the barman smiles at my wit behind the vodkas that I down.

 

I’d better run fast:

The Hunter is coming for me.

 

Tears are lashin’; it’s a sanity-thrashin’

A heart slain.

 

I should sing another, again.

Duet in vain at how I ain’t a soldier;

I’m a fighter.

 

I should know by now not to go looking for trouble.

I’ll have a double this time, camarero!

 

Everyone but me says I could stay away to keep myself alive at twenty-five.

 

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A fellow encountered a bear in a wasteland. There was nobody else there. Both were frightened and ran away.  

Fellow to the north, bear to the west. Suddenly, the fellow stopped, aimed his gun south and shot the bear. What colour was the bear?

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The sky shifts, shapes, and alternates in the hemispheres. 

Imagine encountering a wasteland in the constellations. 

 

The Hunter Orion, as the fellow, and Ursa Major, our Great Bear in the sky, otherwise known as the Big Dipper. 

The Hunter to the north and the Great Bear to the west in the northern hemisphere.

 

Both the Great Bear and the Hunter are frightened by the east as they run westwards on the Earth’s rotation, and the night sky reveals the Hunter’s celestial equator chasing the Great Bear.

 

There is nobody else there, high in the sky, shining down on us as our constellations.

 

Suddenly, the Hunter stops as the Earth rotates west. 

 

He aims his bow southwest as the sun sets and heralds in the winter for the northern hemisphere.

 

What colour is the Great Bear once the Hunter aims his bow at the southern hemisphere, as the sun starts to rise in summer?

 

Invisible. Out of sight, nowhere to be seen.

 

Whereas the Hunter shines bright everywhere for our eyes to see.

 

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