The Gorko Gazette

Kill Two Birds

In the good old days it was quite an achievement to kill two birds with one stone. That was enough.

But time moves on and now it’s not enough.

The modern age demanded greater efficiency, more birds killed for your buck.

The greatest minds of the age were directed by the politicians to drop their work on energy efficiency , cures for cancer, or wiping out world hunger and concentrate instead upon coming up with a stone that could kill several birds at once.

The stone of stones.

How about a dozen? No, make it 20, make it a round 100.

And so it continued as the idea of finding a stone that would kill as many birds as possible took on a life of its own, as all the inventors tried to outdo one another with a stone of bird killing abilities.

They worked feverishly until humanity had found the weapon it was looking for, the holy grail of bird killing stones, a stone that would kill every bird in the world, ‘The Death Stone’

Twitchers and bird lovers screamed, Why? Why on earth do the birds have to die?

And the authorities answered, ‘Because we can, and if we don’t use it, someone else will’

The government set the day for releasing the ‘Stone of Doom’ to be April 26th. And on that appointed day the world watched and held its breath as the mighty bird killing stone was heaved into position.

They got two giggly celebrities, who came third in last year’s Love Island, to press the button that would fling the avian annihilating stone.

The people started the countdown, 10, 9, 8…

But just before the end of the countdown and the release of the bird killing stone, a mighty shadow that rapidly spread as far as the eye could see, spread over the crowds of humanity, as an even bigger stone came hurtling down from the sky.

The birds had not been idle; they had been busy working on a humongous humanity squashing stone of their own.

It landed with an enormous Splat!

And for humanity that was that.

Of course they had to change the saying afterwards.

It now goes, ‘To kill humanity with one stone’.

---

About the artist

Simon is a writer from England. He seeks stillness and solitude.

YOU MAY ALSO LIKE…

Image: Two birds black.jpg