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In the evening
quails
came up
and covered
the camp;
And,
In the morning
dew lay round
about
the camp.
[Exodus 16:13]
***********************
"LORD?
Was there
pet MANNA?"
[PATIENT SILENCE.]
"WELL?"
[PATIENT GAZE.]
"I'm SERIOUS!"
(Squint up.)
"Did Ya feed their
PETS, TOO?"
"It is a Mystery,
My child."
"WHY?
HOW COME?"
[PATIENT PAUSE.]
"Because."
(Impatient frown!)
"WHAT kind'a answer's
THAT?"
"Mine."
[FAR OFF RUMBLE.]
"HEY!
I think all of us have a
right to KNOW!"
[ANOTHER RUMBLE,
THIS TIME MUCH CLOSER.]
"Who,
child."
"US!"
[CURIOUS, LOVING GAZE.]
"Who?"
"Well........ME!"
[PATIENT GAZE.]
[SLOW NOD.]
"Ah."
"WELL?
Didn't the children
of Israel take some
CATS with them,
on their way,
outta' EGYPT?"
[PATIENT SIGH.]
"WELL?
I figured they must'a
stuck them in little
BASKETS, and tied
the basket-tops down,
so the cats wouldn't
get out during the TRIP!"
[GAZE.]
[PATIENT VOICE.]
"Don't you have a chore,
to do,
My beloved?"
(Shrug.)
"Yeah; I GUESS."
"Then,
do it."
"Yeah;
yeah."
(Frown.)
"I'll GET to it."
(Mumble.)
[PATIENT LOOK.]
"WHAT?"
(Stare, innocently,
up at ceiling.)
"Aw!
Come ON!
YOU can TELL me!"
[GAZE AT THE COLD
STARS LOOKING DOWN
ON THE SPINNING EARTH.]
"I wanna KNOW!
Did Ya FEED their
PETS?
Or, WHAT?"
[PATIENT SIGH.]
[WATCH A HERD OF
ELEPHANTS SETTLING
DOWN FOR THE NIGHT,
IN KENYA.]
(Impatient whiny voice.)
"There must'a been
SOME ANIMALS
that they LIKED!
And, didn't wanna
KILL!"
[PATIENT SILENCE.]
[LISTEN TO A GROUP
OF PEOPLE ARGUING
ABOUT THE RECENT
MIDDLE EAST CRISIS
IN WASHINGTON, D.C.]
"People aren't THAT
DIFFERENT! I bet
they had PETS!"
[PATIENTLY WAITING.]
[DIP A HAND INTO THE
COLD WATER BENEATH
A FROZEN POND IN
NORTHERN MINNESOTA.]
"Unless, Darwin was
RIGHT! And, there
WAS EVOLUTION!"
[PATIENT SIGH.]
[PUT A HAND UNDER
ONE OF THE FROZEN TILES
UNDERNEATH* THE
INTERNATIONAL
SPACE STATION.]
"So......maybe, back THEN,
there WEREN'T any PETS!
Maybe.....people just thought
of ANIMALS as somethin'
to EAT!"
"Child?"
"Yes, LORD?"
"Don't you have
something to do?"
(Grimmace!)
"Yeah."
[NOD.]
[SMILE!]
***********************
And
when
the dew
had gone up,
there was
on the face
of the wilderness
a fine,
flake-like
thing,
fine
as hoarfrost
on the ground.
[Exodus 16:14]
_______________________
*Author is not really
sure what constitutes
'underneath', out in
outter space. She
only got a 'C+' in her
only science class
in college, at Penn State.
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