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Pie Ramp Atonement
Coyote felt guilty because
many of his friends had suffered
in horrid wars, and he had not.
To appease his guilt, he darted
around his neighborhood in combat
fatigues, planting relatively
harmless booby traps. Perhaps
the most vicious of these was
a ramp of pies that sprang up on
a plank splattering paper boys
and mailmen. One of the mailmen
was a Viet Nam vet who
laughed a little as he scraped
pie from his uniform then
lashed Coyote to the ramp and
sprang it on a mound of chicken shit.
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Politically Incorrect Coyote
"That was no narrator,
that was my life," said
Coyote, finishing his little joke
and looking around for
approval and chuckles.
But no one was chuckling.
"What have you got against life?"
said Wren. "Life hell!" said
Marlin Perkins. "What have you
got against narrators?"
"But it was a joke," said Coyote.
"Just a joke."  |