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Posted by Farid III (Guest) therealfaridshady@yahoo.com - Saturday, December 20 2003, 2:27:30 (EST)
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So there I yam in Celaya looking for a stone cutter's shop were there
might be marble or granite for a base for the Don. I parks my Bourbon and
hail a taxi. I was told to go round the cemetaries, Panteon, they call it
here...so I tell the driver..."el Panteon por favor". Sizing me up rather
quickly he decides to take me to the farthest Panteon they've got. There
are two...one at the south end of town and one at the north. Naturaly
enough the Panteon of the north is ten feet away from where I get into the
cab...and so he takes me to the southern one...fifteen minutes and several
more pesos away.

The south always being more dillapidated(Ali comes to mind), the Pantheon
of the south is falling all over itself...there's even a smashed in
concrete slab you don't want to know. I'm sent to a grocery store that
doubles as stone cutter's shop but the man is gone away. I hail another
cab and ask for another Pantheon and that's when I'm told about the two of
them and sure enough, just five blocks from the entrance to it, there's my
Bourbon.

I'm sent to a butcher shop this time that doubles as a stone cutter's shop
as well and in back I find a nice piece of marble and so we're all happy.
But in Celaya I saw this office building and it reminded me of the Hanging
Garden of Mordekhai I've heard and read so much about all my life...as I'm
sure you have. It was very like that other garden...in Babylon.

Mordekhai lived around the time of the second Nebukhadnazzar in a village
by the Sea of Galilee in Isreal. He was considered a wise man of sorts
ever since he'd fallen off his ass, remaining lost in the desert for 40
days and 40 nights and came back burnt and babbling. But he gradually
grew even more strange so the good people said god had, "withdrawn his
favor" from Mordekhai. As he grew older he took to sitting atop his
daughter's house with his legs dangling over the edge of the roof. The
hot dessert wind that would ocasionaly rearrange the village highway would
blow old Mordekhai's loose gown over his waist so that his privates were
at times exposed. Mordekhai's tribe had been blessed...the wives said
"cursed", with terrific members and many a maiden and aged dowager was
said to run from the sight, if she could.

It happened one day that a wealthy merchant of the town returned from
hauling locust wings to market in Babylon and wandering down Mordekhai's
lane was astonished to see something he hadn't till then. When he arrived
at the watering hole in the center of the village he told the good people
assembled there all about the wonders he'd seen in Babylon...the whore.
Among the more rare sights he recounted the gardens built high up in the
palace so you'd wonder how the plants got up there and what they were
growing in. There were palm trees and long hanging vines...and at that
very moment divine inspiration took hold of the merchant and he added that
the gardens in Babylon reminded him a lot of the one they had right there
in their own village, which wasn't a whore or she'd have starved for lack
of customers...and when the people expressed some surprise at never having
heard or seen this wonder before, the merchant took them round to
Mordekhai's house and sure enough, there was the Hanging Garden of
Mordekhai and to this day the descendants of that country will tell you
that the gardens in Babylon were the Babylonian Gardens of Mordekhai.
It's in their history books as well...and when did them people ever lie?

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-- Farid III

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