feral found him  either it had its way or he did

mountain animals of Montana wildlife hiking National Parks  if you wanted an eye-to-eyean upclose heartpounding personal encounter   take a hike with him

he didnt know otherwise

perhaps opposites attract  likes know and fall in together

they didnt fear himhe didnt fear them

that he found comfort in bears hummingbirds bees elk lions bison deer coon coyotes  what? they had an enduring mutual respect

his feral animals these days were cats

they found their way

they found him

            then finding them skulking around his yard he befriended them fed and encouraged them 

he did pay in bits of flesh 

but you cant dance and not get your toes stepped on

recent state measures which outlawed feral cats infuriated him

if someone wanted a kitten they were to acquire an animal bred by catteries  as if human beings were responsible when money was heaved into the mix

breeders tweaked the gene pool

they fashioned animals

itd gone so far that now geneticists were tweaking the human genome culling out bad genes

for Christssake what else did they cull

he supposed scientists hadnt read Mary Shelleyhadnt read speculative scifiSterlings Schismatrix his shapers and mechanists

if he knew one thingonly one thing about human beings

they were imperfect

they were dazzled by the bright side of everything and if you tried to turn the coin over they resisted

they refused to game-out the possibility of their interferencetheir very bright incompetence

their incompetence ran the gamut of their sciencestheir social worlds political business and technological worlds

they worried the Immediatethe Now  because they would be dead when the murder of crows came to roost

they ignored the ramifications of earlier failures that ran end on end generation after generation before them because

of course  they were doing it betterhad better more efficient tools and analyses  more data   as if rudimentary datathe basisthe founding of their efforts was null and void

WE CAN DO IT BETTER they exalted

                            and who cant look into the bright light and promise and not salivate

shit always had its place in the mouths of men

one generation after another quaffing deep Derbys Doses

one might think we would learn

wed seen it before

we knew better

feral came to him

he accepted them and he did his best to encourage their natural continuation

it seemed to him they had done well for thousands of years

who were we to think we could manage or  alter   them

1401,  Saturday,  7  10. 17

Steppenwolf  The Pusher  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmdDMGp8IS8

Zager and Evans  In the Year 2525 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKQfxi8V5FA