Adam, before Eve appeared in the Garden of Eden, had a brother, his name was Skinhead, because he was created without hair on his head, for some strange reason. He, Skinhead, was a little jealous because God spoke to Adam, but he seemed to miss it, if he really knew him, so one day he left the garden and headed west, and he thought: from the the sun the sun came up for east and set to the west, he would travel as far as his feet would take him west, and when God would wake up in the morning to see how things were on earth, he would catch him going along, and he would have some questions that he wanted. answer, if possible, some miracles to boot. What came first?
Well, he did exactly what he said he was going to do, and when he found himself near exhaustion, he said to himself, out loud:
“This place will do just fine.”
And there he sat waiting and waiting for God to come, and God came, and he saw Skinhead waiting. And Skinhead yelled,
“God, listen to me please!”
And God looked down, said:
“Who are you?”
“Skinhead,” he yelled back.
And with all the noise and commotion, and her rushing voice, sort of a slurred voice, God thought of that, what a name, ‘Pinhead’.
“Well,” said God, “you caught my eye, what can I do for you, pinhead, hurry up I’m busy?”
Well, Skinhead wanted to correct him but he felt that this was not the time or the place to do so, and he asked God a question and a favor, saying:
“Can you create a creature that can eat all the fruit and foliage on top of the trees? It’s a shame to create all this abundance and let it rot on top of things.”
So God looked down and around and around and saw that this was really a problem, albeit a minor one, and in the blink of an eye, he created the giraffe, a him and a giraffe, they were so tall they ate from the top of the trees, about twenty to thirty feet high.
Before Skinhead could thank God, he was gone.
Well, he thought, and made him an adobe hut to live in, right then and there, in any case, he was proud to have had God himself, to admit, if only his brother were here to witness it, but more late one, and during the process of building the cabin, he was being eaten alive by ants almost figuratively, of course.
He thought about going back to the Garden where his brother was, and showing off, showing him what God had done for him, but first things first, these ants were a plague, and he wanted revenge, but he wouldn’t tell God. He thought he had to be screwed about this, and he was.
He saw God in the seventh week passing again with the sun going down, and he cried out:
“God, I need your help,” and God stopped what he was doing, looked down, and said,
“Oh, it’s you again, Pinhead,” and he wanted to correct God, but this was not the time or place to do it, he wanted a favor; and he was wise enough to realize that no one likes to be corrected, and if so, your favor goes down the river.
“So what can I do for you this time?” asked God, “make it quick, I’m busy!”
Well, Skinhead could detect a bit of annoyance in his voice, so he said it quickly,
“The ants down here are eating me alive, make an anteater please!”
God looked down, around and around, saw that this was so, and therefore, in the twinkling of an eye, created a four-legged creature with a long beak, like a pig with a long thin snout: in Essentially, there was a he and she anteater outside their adobe shack, eating ants like they were chocolate Easter bunnies.
Skinhead wanted to thank God, but once again, he was gone in a flash.
Several more weeks passed, and Skinhead thought about how lonely he was, he had heard Adam in his sleep talking about something called mate, so when God passed by, he yelled something at him again, but God couldn’t understand it.
“What do you want now?” God asked in a stern voice.
“A partner,” he said.
“How does it look?” God replied.
“I don’t know,” Skinhead said, he had only heard Adam say the word mate in his half sleep, and that he needed company, like him, Adam was lonely too, so Skinhead thought, putting two and two together, was a good thing. , and he hoped God could figure out the rest, and it was a new word to the world and God, and even Skinhead, but in Skinhead’s hasty voice, God thought he said, “…like a camel.”
Thus, God made a camel with two humps, instead of one, and said as he left: “That’s all, you have fulfilled your three wishes.”
Taken from an afternoon sleep, a nap, I took for two hours on Saturday 01-27-2009, Lima, Peru. A children’s tale.