sipping cold coffee smoking a cigarette
he stood at the porch rail in the shade
and could feel the coming heat of day
he came out of the house to check
on bigfoot see if he had come around for his breakfast
he wasnt out there
didnt rise to him calling out for
him
his new sidekick a dusky calico stumbled
out from under the porch a sidekick only
in that she showed up four days earlier and ravenously tried to knock bigfoot
off his evening feed
he got between their snarls her
dartingthe quick angling to steal a mouthful of food
he snatched up bigfoots and went
back into the house to dole out kibble into a fresh bowl for her
returning to the porch he set
hers downshe fell on it he was able to divert bigfoot from her bowl with the comfort
of his own
he remained out there while they
ate keeping them sequestered
cats always got to know what you got that theyre sure they didnt
since it was becoming easier to feed them
the wee one quickly comprehended
his systemunderstood that she was getting hers
if only fucking people were that
easy if fucking people werent always trying
to game the other
but inequality does that
and if there was
anything America was really really good at it was inequality it protected by the selfrighteous squawk of independenceentitlement
bootstrapsentitlement capitalismentitlement
funny how so many can squawk around silver spoons stuck in their craws
everyone else can chew on a toothpick
the calico was rail thin
though most feral cats are
he had a way with feral cats
they seemed to find him
his daughters and girlfriend teased
him that he was a cat whisperer
he gamely refuted corrected them No A pussy
whisperer
they rolled their eyes
no matter
there was no denying that he had a way with
wild things
from spiders and black widows to
hummingbirds to snarling dogs off leash
to buffalos
kindred spirits
made perfect sense
he was wild too
just sheathed in human skin
he rubbed between many rocks
seeing if he could shed it
No
this white skin came with this incarnation
10something, Twosday,
23 5. 17
1335 days remaining of less Russianbuhbye
