Saturday, August 9, 2008

Where Will My People Go?


Coyote shares a reading from Exodus:

And Moses said to Pharaoh, "let my people camp in City Park." But Pharaoh hardened his heart, and promised only sprinklers if the curfew was broken. So Moses said, "my people will go by night to the Pepsi Center, and camp there." But Pharaoh hardened his heart again, and said no. So Moses said, "my people will go back and forth, for four days and nights, between City Park and the Pepsi Center, sleeping when we can, and camping where we might." At this Pharaoh only laughed.

But after much discussion, Pharaoh relented, and agreed to allow Moses and his people to assemble in Cuernevaca Park by day, march to the Pepsi Center when inspired, and camp on the hard parking lots of the Coliseum by night. All seemed good, until Moses again cried out to Pharaoh, shouting, "this is not what we agreed to! We will not camp at the Coliseum! We will spend our nights at the shantytown at the Pepsi Center! Let my people go!"

So Pharaoh, seeing red, screamed, "these people wear me out!" Then Moses lifted both his hands toward heaven. The sky darkened, the winds howled, and the earth shook. Moses looked right into the crimson face of mighty Pharaoh, and with a powerful swing of his staff,
parted the seeing red.

Seeing red, get it? Parted the seeing red, the red sea! Ha Ha!! Its a Coyote joke, just like this whole Tent State saga is a Coyote joke.
Foolishness!! All kinds of build up, and then a joke. And a not very funny joke at that, since Coyote had to explain it. When will it ever end? How will it ever end.

CoyoteJ, whose sense of humor is very in-tents.

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