message in a bottle

i'm calling it a parable

Photo by Andrew Measham on Unsplash

an old man came out of his house one day to find a bottle on his front stoop. it was a fogged glass bottle with a cork in the neck, the kind he rarely saw anymore, and when he picked it up there was a note inside.

he looked to his left and his right but there was no one on the street. he shook out the piece of paper, u…