Escape from the Communist Army

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The time to pick up the passport arrived. Joseph went to the police station. The files were opened and in the side packet was the travel document, but on the right with red letters it was written: ‘a release from the army is necessary otherwise the applicant cannot be given the passport.’ Joseph was sent back to fetch the permit from the army. Another setback, but this time Joseph was calmer, he already saw the passport so all he needed is to create a distraction and diversion. But why would he want to do that?

The day before the date of the passport’s pick up Joseph had a dream. He was in his town where he grew up. He was in the fields when all of a sudden black ravens swooped down on him; he shook them off and ran into the house. But the ravens circled the house crying with human voices, ‘play for us, play for us.’ Joseph ran outside to scare them off, but the birds again flew down toward him. Joseph managed to reach the door and closed it. The ravens then crushed against the window above the door as if trying to break the glass, but the window was reinforced with metal bars. So again they circled the house and spoke with human voices, as if trying to entice Joseph to play in the army. He shouted back, "never!"

After a while the birds seemed to have gone away. Joseph opened the door and ran through the courtyard to the barn. He looked around the haystacks and the farming tools when he noticed a blue coat, which looked like a US navy coat with silver buttons. On the buttons was the »American Eagle. Although Joseph has never seen this sort of a coat he was going not only to see it, but also own it one day.

He approached the foreign looking garment and put his hand in its breast pocket; he touched what he thought was a thin notebook, but when he pulled it out it was a passport. At that very moment he awoke.

Now, for the fourth time he goes to the police station. The lady says, “weren't you here yesterday?” Joseph answered affirmatively.

The young lady opened the file with the side packet holding a passport and on the right there was the writing in red ink. She pointed to the place where he should sign. Joseph leaned over and with his elbow obscured her view to the writing in red, quickly pulled the passport from the side pocket, closed the file and handed it to the lady and kept on talking. The lady was a pretty girl who paid more attention to the young man rather than to the papers he was ‘helping’ her close.

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