Neanderthal Messiah — 120

Evening Walk | Sea of Galilee Shore I

[Iesu throws a stone into the water.]

[Grabbing Hhis arm, Yitzhak, babysitting:] ‘You should not do that.

It took ages for that stone to arrive on land.

Can you imagine the path, the story, the relief on arriving on land?’

[Iesu walked some, contemplating but not answering.]

[Yitzhak, Pharisee novice of 12:] ‘No response? Do you understand?’

[Iesu:] ‘Civilization has recently invented the ball —

To be thrown, intercepted, possessed.

The sport of competition will ensue from its story -

Of now just two verbs: to love and to count -

Acquire the pointed ball, or love the sport.’

[Yitzhak:] ‘That is not my lesson of the stone.’

[Iesu:] ‘No - do you understand, though?

My parents hired you to watch us,

[James throwing stones into the sea laughing.]

Your Sanhedrin require you report on me.

Do you understand that I understand?’

…

[Iesu, finally:] ‘That stone knew flight, my touch and homecoming.

Can you imagine the story it’s telling right now!’