THE GREEDY GREEN GIANTS

“How many light-bulbs can you swallow for breakfast?” said Yok.

“As many as you like” said Yak.

So they lined them up. And as each put away more and more of these glowing balls they grew in bursts and spurts as if the added light gave am extra fluorescent greenness to their thick yet tender figures.

They were heading upwards as though they were a river running towards its source.

“Ahh… the source of light” said the two competitors with open eyes and gaping mouths. Then with one last extra large gulp they had done it. They had swallowed the sun. They coughed a couple of times, then swallowed and looked down at their swollen bellies that stuck out way ahead of them.


But now all around there was only darkness and gradually Yok and Yak began to wither and recede. Soon all that was left of them was two large green bellies. The rest of them had been eaten away by the long hard winter of that darkness.


Then one day a small faint light begun to shine through out of the darkness and as it did so the two bellies began to stir. Then all at once they broke asunder and the green from so many lights came tumbling and rolling down the hills in a multitude of shoots bursting up towards the new light.


In amongst all this commotion and excitement no one could really say for sure where Yok and Yak might be; the greedy green giants out of whose bellies so much life had come.