some people kept bats or handguns or knives beside their beds 

protection from intruders

he didnt

          he always told his daughters if someone was fool enough to break into his place hed eat free for months

they knew he spent a few years on a cattle ranchknew that he worked parttime as a butcherthat he knew how to render cuts of meat from a carcass what was tender  what was tough and needed to be stewed 

he kept a hatchet and a K-bar knife beside his bed

he joked with his girls that he ought to cover the old carpet beneath his feet with plastic but plastic sounded creepy when he walked on it he could hardly tolerate its sound when he painted the rooms in his small house

Thank Gawd it was small 

it really wasnt a joke

he was violent by nature

it was a seam a loose stitch he picked at as a child and exploredunraveled  it made perfect sense 

some people werent violent

some people were

he would have been at home as a mountain man ages ago in the western United States 

solitary

on foot

having a pack animal to confide his thoughts

a woman women 

                      they were expendable  as men were expendable to them

love

a shackle

a possession some seemed to perceive it as such

no one possesses another

unless they ate them

someone didnt violate his place he was cool

                                                 he remembers an old Montanan handpainted wood shingle hung on a remote barbedwire fence  he had no argument with it

                                                            TRESPASSERS WILL BE VIOLATED

no fuckin clue, mid-week, best-guess scenario;  now 1530,  Saturday,  26  10. 19

The Buoys  Timothy  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjSmFq3j-8M