Life and times of Blou Kop the lizard.

It is not easy being a lizard. Not much goes into the life of a lizard. It is a real ‘ devil may care’ thing or ‘ nobody cares’ affair.

It was reproduced with other blou kops sometime, somewhere, somehow. Mummy came with her load and deposited somewhere, and left to make life elsewhere.

As he stood there, because in this life relaxing is not part of the game, it is sacriledge to do that. Complete suicide, getting caught off guard is not the type of thing favourable to any

lizard. It recalled a story back in the day when he almost got eaten by an adult blou kop.

This thing had been following him after he was reproduced. Young and vulnerable, fragile and weak, not so streetwise, the adult blou kop stopped him.

‘Hi, young one’ the adult said.

‘Hi adult one’ he replied.

‘Where is your mummy’ the adult said.

Afraid and confused, he became emotional in his answer, crying because mummy and blou kops are a new thing. He then answered ‘ I do not know’

‘ Typical’ the adult said ‘ they bring you in and disappear long before reproduction’. The adult added.’ I have never seen such parents.

‘ Anyway, have you some idea where daddy is?’ he asked.

The young blou kop got more emotional than before.’ Hey I have neither mummy nor daddy’.

‘ The scum of the earth’ what is wrong with lizards’ why do they live me to provide the answers’ why me’. He knelt down in poetic fashion to level with the young blou kop.

‘ Promise to show you your mummy and daddy right now, hop into my mouth’ he said. The young one had got into his mouth to see mummy and daddy, when a thought occurred to it ‘ mouths are for eating not seeing inside them. It quickly got hold of the base of the toungue and tugged at it, closed it with the teeth and clamped hard as the adult lizard was clamping on its waist to crush it. The adult blou kop tried to cough it out but the young lizard held even tighter to choke the rogue off him.

They fell to the ground, and he hung in there until the adult lizard gave in to the harsh reality of death. The young one was being survival and survy to the future. There was no way this thing could live, it had to die. It had almost killed and ate it.

He bit the toungue off and ate it up for the benefit of life. He was himself hungry.

The blou kop thought of this incident. It had perched itself on that favoured spot swiping, swapping and zapping flies and locust and bugs and my my my, what a yummy life. It was growning fast, the food at the spot was good. He was growing big enough, to bully other males like him. At the time of

reproduction he needed the muscle to edge his way to females, and they should find it suitable.

True, suitable in a world that has no formal discipline is something else. In a world where ‘ eat or be eaten’ is the stakes of the time. Blou kop discovered a new world of courtship.this female blou kop came in followed by a male blou kop for courtship. He wanted to get involved, but the female blou kop went between the two. They would have to fight to the death for her favours. The thing had hardly finished when the guy jumped on him to fight.

He was the stronger of the two, the other guy found itself in mid- air before finally falling off with a broken spine, no action

for him. Almost dead to the world, the female blou kop began to speak.

‘ Um, you do your thing as I eat, otherwise when I am done, goodbye. It is dangerous to hang out here too long’

‘ what now is this?’ he enquired.

‘ Like I said, as I eat, give me some love, court with me. I will not have time to wait for courtship. It is dangerous out here.

And so, the female started to eat when at the same time is was taking love from blou kop.

True to form the thing left as soon as the other contest was fully in its stomach. There were no goodbyes after that, the thing returned with four or more such victims after that.

Apparently, these huge meals are meant to keep it in one place for a much longer time. To minimize the risk of being cought and eaten. Oh! To also ensure there is minimum exposure to the sun and bad weather.

There was no turning back. Followed the lady lizard one time to check where it stayed. What a surprise, the female blou kop ended up on some rocks. There was a stone overhang indicating a sort of cave. In front of the cave was the smooth, dangerous, popular and very famous blue- black mamba. The skin was shiny, no scales on the thing, all curled up in a ring of two coils. That thing was almost two meters long, it is known to eat anything, snakes, frogs , birds, lizards etc. the favourite

being snakes like itself. The female lizard got inside this ring of vernom, and the snake began to leak it, as if enjoying the action. The female lizard then after a long long while leak the snake all over.

Amazing was all blou kop could think. No wonder the female blou kop was so soft in touch.

There was no time to hang around, if those two were to catch on its presence wow!!.

Life would go back to normal, fighting for insects with everybody even frogs. Some of these animals were angry with the lizard, too many meals lost to it, too many meals. When it

had time from the rock perch it called hunting ground, the lizard ate other lizards as well and this was also a problem. This is a ‘creature eat creature world’, blinking is not advised. Do not blink, something is watching and hungry out there.

Then it happened, the snake friend that grew, was doing the rounds for something to eat, they met by chance. Relations were not so sweet because generally the lizard itself used to chase it around when small. The running started, this thing has grown and this no time to line up and apologise, things must eat.

The frog was enjoying the day when there was this commotion from his right hand side.

He saw the blou kop approaching at great speed, and that great speed suggested trouble. The speed was amazing, it was run by two creatures in a great hurry. Either one following the other, and the relations were such that eating must take place. One of the creatures, has suddenly become wanted for eating purposes.

The blou kop appeared out of the grass in a hurry, it was doing great speeds towards the frogs direction.

For a while the frog thought the blou kop was going to bump it, the thing switched to curve so it will pass in front of the frog, selling it to the trouble behind. It went past at a blistering amount of speed, the breeze that accompanied it was breath taking.

Tail straight out, it went past like it was yesterday. A few seconds later the trouble appeared, a very long thing that can eat more than it is chasing at this moment. The frog straightened up- right and pointed in the direction the lizard has taken. The frog looked like some green lavae covered piece of wood. The length of the snake and the scales on it, a black mamba, were terrifying to look at, so with his face turned up to the sky, the frog pointed in that direction not expose the cover it had adopted. It, was being sold off and careful action was required.

The breeze went for a much longer period because of the snakes length, the two disappeared into the grass on the other side of the frog and that was it.

A fair escape for the blou kop, perched up on its favoured spot, catching flies and bugs and locust flying by, it had forgotten to bring its tail about where it is visible, the tail was hanging wrecklessly out there.

A mouse doing business happened by it. This thing looked like some edible piece of wood to it. The mouse set about chomping off.

The lizard felt the tail itch at a very uncomfortable point.

He found that a mouse was chomping off the tail. The lizard jumped off on the mouse. There was a struggle to free the tail from the mouse, and the lizard beat up the mouse bad.

‘You will pay dearly for this you moron, this tail is not detachable like all the other mogoes like yourself. How would you feel if I got to chomping off bits of you’.

The fighting went on until the mouse was worthless to life. The lizard looked at it and thought it wise to swallow the thing. it have to moisten it to get it right, making the mouse pay for chomping off its tail.

The lizard was gobbling the mouse up when the female lizard appeared out of the wild, impressed with what it was witnessing.

‘I did not know you were into exotics, I must take you home one of these days’ the female said.

The mouse went in a lot quicker than it would have done at the word. The lizard slumped down at the sudden weight of its stomach contents. It had eaten sizeable things before. The mouse was almost the same size as itself. The thought of going

home with this other thing was not the type you want, that is if this female knows where home is and what also stays at home.

The lizard was full, very full to think off. It may need some days to digest the latest eating exploit. After all ‘ nobody cares’.

Blou kop was slumped up right there, no use to itself and feeling it. The female thought of testing its resolve about it. ‘How about I eat you right now for safe keeping, a big fat great souvenir in my stomach’ it said.

“What, over my dead body, why care, go now before I eat you as well’.

The female set about laughing, enjoying itself. ‘ Sorry, about eating you’. By this time the blou kop had sprung up no stress and was making his way out of sight pursued by its female tormentor. Way into safety, where it slumped up again tired of the little activity.

‘ Do you know what will happen when found in this condition?, you will be eaten’ the female tormented it.

There they were beneath some rocks, not afraid these rocks may fall on them. Happy that they were there, if anything the female blou kop had found a suitor. About the blue snake, well it loved this female from the beginning, but hurting this female was not advised. Killing it was a mess no animal wanted.

Blou kop, was busy hunting, when he saw a striped lizard. It raised emense interest engage this lizard for eating purposes. The striped lizard tried to give right of way when blou kop approached but blou kop blocked the route. The striped lizard moved the other side but, no can do. Blou kop simply blocked the route again. There was stand - off, that took some minutes to resolve. It is difficult when you have an aggressive looking alien in front blocking access from further movement.

The striped lizard thought it was wise to completely change route. This is when there is retreat of some kind. There are no tones of prior hostilities between the two, but the striped lizard retreated. The poor animal was turning and fast.

Blou kop would not have it, blou kop held the other lizard by its right hind leg, tugging it backward. The striped lizard made a sharp turn mouth open to scare blou kop off. Poor thing met up with a much wider mouth causing the whole head to swim in there. Blou kop closed the hatch, and clamped the lizards head in the mouth, breathing through the nostrils the blou kop was fine to clamp on the unsuspecting striped lizard, which was having problems struggling in the mouth. Scant breath, and struggling the lizard lost out. It collapsed in there, died, and could only be eaten.

The eating of the striped lizard went on, nice nice.

Blou kop was taking the striped lizard in when, a female friend arrived.

‘ooooooh, nice, sweet, perfect. Your spirit into exotics is growing. I love you more now. Oooooooh, exciting. I must be careful though you do not find me exotic’ the female commented.

‘what, and have blue black on my tail, it is not detachable. I will be done for’, and that lizard was the bomb delicious, loved the feed’

Blue black, had an almost unfortunate youth against a python. The young mamba happened to be sorting out locusts to feed in an area that had a python. The big snake trapped and killed a reed buck. Unfortunately when eating, the young mamba got assimilated by chance. It spent almost three to four months in there. The big snake continued to suffer stomach problems, because it had this thing that fed in it what is ate but most dangerously, the little snake in it had the occasion of biting at its intestine. Poisoning it sick, until it died of its ailments. The young snake got out of the dead animal. Affected by lack of sun exposure, it had lost its scaling frame. It got a soft blue black colour. It could only stay it extreme cool places that it found nearby. Python live mostly in rock areas. It got faster than other snakes and ate anything even snakes like itself. Generally called blue black by respecting folk around. It met this female blou kop, connered it and could not eat it. The two became friends,

lived by leaking one another, blue black needing to be leaked now and then.

And then there was ‘ the capital of eating’. A black mamba all scales and black. Always hunting for food and nothing else. The thing loved eating, a menace to anything lizard, rat, mouse, frog and some types of snakes. Now ‘ the capital of eating’ was a traveller of sorts. Only travelling to where there was food. He would stay at any place until all forms of food were depleted, so long as there was food, the thing was hanging around.

The thing got angry once there was no food, plundering the local chicken for eggs, bird nests and all types of other types of loose finds like that. Most times birds became troubled when this capital of eating was about. They made noise around his presence, sometimes managing to peck it off with its beaks, or basically managing to attract higher salvation, like the hawk.

At a point in time the poor animal had to hide among some rocky enclave for days. This was after the birds have noised the attention of a hawk, save for the topography of the area, the snake made good its escape. It was held up for days until it seemed inaccessible to it and left. The capital could not eat for days. The snake was pissed, got to the bird enclave to eat anything that got close to it, off the air and on the ground.

’the capital of eating’ ate a lot of birds all together with a lot of eggs. The thing left satisfied, birds were afraid to just peck it, getting close was no longer a good idea to them. Only those with much to offer tried but ended in that fanged mouth. the thing was pissed. Some birds bailed out and moved house. This was a terrible day for anything in that war, at times pecking seemed futile and not effective to the snake.