TheAborginesPartOne

TheAborgines

PartOne

TheTeacherCome

The
men gathered around the teacher come each one thronged and bowed they
all had grey hair everywhere the eye could see they held out bowls of
wooden hidden insides full of seaming things to eat. Perhaps the
fireplace was inside one of the huts perhaps the food was only cold
just fruit and nuts. The Teacher sighed then began to speak as each
man placed his bowl at teachers feet. He pointed all around the
village there here and everywhere until alarmed the men begin to
quiver and beware until the Teacher cried out loud “How can eye
make them understand to make a sign to make them understand the day
time.” He tried his watch. He held up a calendar with all the
days of months he even pantomimed the passing of time he tried the
whistle of the loon to signal dark; then his eyes light up at
something he just thought and so he drew there in the sand seven
circles then one more there then starting over with his pidgeon
speaching he tried to reach the men again with teaching. Day Day Day
Day Day Day Day Day he said this eight times once for each circle
pointing to make his point across the men in the glen between the
huts were nodding understanding. They understood the teacher. He
pointed at the first circle again and just said TODAY and got all
excited when they nodded yes they were absorbing all the words then
he said day to all the others but the last circle he called NEXT WEEK
in a loud loon like voice. There was a hush and then the Spokesman
for the tribe said to him in perfect English TIME. The teacher froze.
For every aborigine had pulled a watch out from the leather thong and
one of them cried out in perfect English as the Spokesman had thus
done why that is April Twenty Ninth. The aborigine men all begin to
dance now like the loon from side to side they all begin to eat the
contents of the bowls at teachers feet the bowls of wisdom which
contain the portions of the last teacher come to entertain who also
tried to teach them time. For the aborigines were cannibals educated
with intelligence complete with watches from the arms they used for
cooking meat in pots from bowls they grab the portions out filled
with teachers time and time again they come to teach them men the
time in land of loon the teacher come?