Just If And Seven
Aesop's Fables
as retold it by Doug Moon
"Rockbird"
A
bird so thirsty couldn't get his beak down inside a metal pitcher and as there
was little water within, he thought what to do. One thinks of licking the
condensation on the outside of the pitcher as that is where all the water went
in hot airs, but instead the pitcher was actually glazed clay or porcelain with
then no transmit. Instead, he the bird worked all day long delivering pebbles to
the pitcher and the water thus rose to greet as in heaven it
does.
Moral: Drink or quaff deeply when sent. Also, know when to
die.
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"Mercury's Hammer Of The Gods" (also to be retold
as the murder-mystery "Pink Dot")
An old man chopping wood and trying to get out of working (he said
he saw a snake and it "scares him") tossed his hatchet or ax into a pond
or lake and Mercury the god of whirlwind and facial moles came to the rescue. Mercury dove
into the lake and brought out a gold hatchet and asked "Is this yours?"
to which the old man replied "Nope." Mercury dove back in and came up shortly
thereafter with a silver hatchet and asked once again "Is this it?" to
which the old man replied "No - that is not the one." Finally, Mercury dove in and came
back up with the right one the very same, but he looked like Houdini
after both keys dropped down his throat and with pencils flying - the prize of
acclaim so very crudely fashioned and unworthy of us all with its
plaintive filths. Exasperated he said to himself only "This is it [no more will
I reach for you]" but in hirsute of languages and the old man kept them all.
Thank God it wasn't actually an ax and therewith three (3) more of
demanded dives.
Moral: Get yours - live better. Also asks me "Was it worth
it?"
"A mole to keep the
mail moving."
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"The Old Man Medit It Death"
An old man tired and weak while chopping wood, sat and
cried to himself so weary of the world he begged for death to
come, but in noun plurals as name "Death". Sure enough, "Death" sprang upon him a
wiry skeleton with apple scythe from a nearby bush and it said to him
"The Old Man" and as if just as lowly "Here I am - ready to go?" but with bones
only and barely ashaken a russling of leaves as a mite bashfully. Frustrated
with his inability to communicate the offer to "The Old Man", "Death" the
wind blew on and no one came and no one left. Alternate endings: "Oh, oh - I
didn't really mean that "Death" and "Death" left as mercifully as it came to
only return again one day that very same as always and on the
alert.
Moral: It doesn't
hurt to ask. See what you can get for nothing.
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"The
Flatterly"
A bird of finest flockery was up in a tree
singing to itself, so sure it wouldn't be able to complete the day's ruin, and
quite then a hungry fox came along and stood underneath. "You are the finest of
the flock" it said to be as humbly as it is made (may I eat
of you?) in secret it staid. The bird replied "Oh, the flattery! are but undo
for if I come to you, you will eat of me and no one will be such and as to
be paid for this day." The fox replied "I am no cat and not to this
day have eaten" but away it did pounce and no bird had its say on that weather
or that day.
Moral: "You better run." Each love to be but a feeding
of and fun.
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"The Aunt Of The Grasshopper Both Heed"
A
bunch of ants were working hard one day each delivering more than is theirs to
say to a mound nearby and as a grasshopper played its stolie violins nearby
and as is played. The ant said "We are preparing for a harshest winter and as
such, have no song to yet play. Ours is a harvest of to be met, not a harvest
celebrated with rats made you." The grasshopper played on as if hearing no
steed. O! the winter of such came and the grasshopper had to admit it was so
cold but out in streets and with no food, but all answers lie within he pleuried
on still a hardened of fiddle no string would say and no one's song played
brighter than on that very day.
Moral: Best as is prepared? Not if
your bringing the sushi to a thinktank.
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"The Ol'
Snake In The Grass Is Another Trick Of You Be As Heard"
A father figure-type
was out in the dead of winter and 'found' a snake barely alive with ices about
and brought the 'poor creature' into his home to be set by the snugly-lit
fireplace for a spell onward. How could the snake even as such be
cold-blooded withstand such kindnesses alive if to be such and be said well? The
snake came to life at once and as it be warmthened and began hissing
violingly at the man and his family shorn as if harm had been delivered to
broken and at harm. "How dare you!" the man queried it aloud "Is this how you
repay my kindnesses to thee?" as he dispatched the vilest of creature into the
winter of so lorn and be gone.
Moral: Be a friend to yourself first. Only
a fiend asks if it's okay and then does it just the same and to be
anyway. Be yourself sure.
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"Bitch, You Are Fucking
Mean"
A dog with a firm piece of habbled meat in his mouth saw his own
reflection in the water as his drink bemuse and he thought to let it slip as
another yet not to be so tasty was larger to be lowered nearby. The dog
lost both pieces of it by mouth as the moat slipped in to say, but no one knows
for sure how large the loss to be or and of to be taken.
Moral: Have a
drink on me. If only to have more of the same, be shamed.
The
end. These were my favorites so far...
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