Casey's Just Sayin'

Once upon a time, there was a green-skinned baby, born in pain and joy to a purple-eyed mother and a silver-fisted father. The green-skinned baby lived deep in the darkest parts of the steel forest in the smallest cave of a dead mountain to the south. The first week of his life, the green-skinned baby was happy, cuddling his mother’s bosom and staring into her purple eyes. But their gold was white and it made the silver-fisted father sick and angry. The silver-fisted father only spoke with his silver fist, and he talked loudest of all to the purple-eyed mother. The purple-eyed mother spoke only with her purple eyes, and often the purple tears that flowed down her face. And so time passed and the green-skinned baby became a green-skinned boy. There came a day when the green-skinned boy wanted to venture from the tiny cave in the dead mountain and see what wonders the steel forest might hold. “Leave!” the silver-fisted father said with his silver fist, turning the boy’s skin black and bl...