In The Beginning We Did Have Someone On The Ground

Roaches. We were simply called “roaches,” though perhaps even then we should have been called “cockroaches.” Our tradition is that only the male figures into historical accounts. The progenitor of our species, Ed, lived googol^googol generations ago. In the beginning, he was there in the Garden of Eden, notwithstanding the apocryphal accounts of people.

In the garden, Ed hovered about openly on the lookout for crumbs and dribbles. Back then, there were no cupboards to hide in and no sudden bright lights to skitter away from. And we weren’t afflicted with the demeaning stereotype propagated by bigoted speciesists, like K. So, in the beginning, Adam and Eve were pretty relaxed with Ed around, and Ed, for his part, was usually pretty good about not crawling on their naked bodies when they were following God’s detailed instructions on how to make Cain and Abel.

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