The jinx gods began watching
"the thing" and began weaving their mysterious doings upon it; they were
able to make all those losing to truly
believe everything was lost
and those winning to feel totally sure it was indeed over and to compulsively
pack their tree limbs in large canvas
bags ... the final
out to be, "they" made hit a three bagger - after blowing his foul ball out
of a large deformed hand and - made the next
club-mortal trot down the first bag
line giggling as he pointed at the mound-mortal whose control was made to
vanish, allowing his four vehement
throws to become "baws" and then convinced
the full-of-tics mortal standing on his hill to groove one which was quickly
hoisted over the scoreboard
for a pentagon-run ....
Some of the other gods felt heaps of pity
and some compassion for the mound-mortal who was standing with his head drooped
thinking back to the
batter on whom he had two strikes on before allowing him to hit a non-waste
pitch for the triple.
Out from the cave
came a chubby mortal with a gut that manifested the effects of a million bottles
of beer - who began yelling at the blue
uniformed mortal that one day all of them
would be replaced by machines - and then he finally reached the hill and took
the white thing away from
the mound-mortal and sent him away; not allowing him to play anymore.
Pegasus was losing heavily
on the contest of guessing whether the white pellet was going to be a "steek"
or a "baw"; not realizing Ares was
playing with the shouterouter's mind - making him forget where the strike
zone was on every other pitch.
Pegasus suspected finally something
was going "Sicilian" when Ares shouted why all the screaming watchers were
not attacking the judge - like
most mortals did in war.
At this very point was when
Pegasus talked Zeus's brother Poseiden into flooding the field with water
so washing all bets away to the ocean.
This was done but Zeus became so
incensed that he began to bite the back of his hand to little purple indentations
which resembled spike marks
on a ground.
Nike screamed she had won fair and square and refused to give back her winnings
and left for another mountain.
The uniformed mortals were all ready picking up their gear and shaking their
heads in bewilderment for even the lights had died.
Feeling pity for them, Artemis produced a full moon to brighten patches of
darkness.
"We shall do this again!" Zeus declared.
"Yes! Yes! Again and again and again-"
Athena said but before she could go on for another twenty minutes, Zeus placed
his hand over her mouth
- making all the jinx gods laugh.
All the Greek gods agreed with the
great Thunderbolt as they sat with clenched fists trying to think of more
ways to make this crazy thing even
more interesting and even more unpredictable
as the jinx gods winked at one another and nodded vehemently behind the Greek
gods' backs ....
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(C) Jerry Vilhotti 2001. All rights reserved