the BBC is not CNN
but
Drumpfs legion cunt tell the difference AH
to be ignorant is
bliss
2023, Twosday,
12 2. 19
12.2.19
as he walked reading a book he became keenly aware of a cry he heard he tried
to distinguish with his ears alone where it emanated it seemed
to come from all around him
he imagined a raptor aflight
and therefore confusing himcrying
from the sky that he couldnt see up into because of the canopy of arched trees
limbs overhead
so he listened as a bat
or dolphin might reversed echolocation
he listened hopeful that it might
take to a tree roost then reveal itself
it sounded formidable
and who didnt appreciate natural
formidable creatures
inside a half kilometre it seemed
the raptor had settled down
he stopped walking along the
roadside no longer read
he was possessed
by his ears listening raptly to its occasional
cries
listening he began walking backwards the cry behind him
there were no curbsno sidewalks it was an old neighbourhood that didnt account for pedestrians or rather
then there were insufficient cars to worry the mixing of vehicles and people afoot
which was probably why he had affection
for it he wasnt a squirrel to be run
over hit him with a car and they better
hope they killed him because he carried a kbar in a rucksack slung over his
shoulder hed carried it since he was a
teenager a gift from his older brother a Marine
You’ll never know when you might need this.
he branished it only twice once in
the city where four black teens took exception to him taking a shortcut through
their neighborhood to reach the lakefront they chased him he made a corner
ahead of themturned and when they rounded it he had it in hand an went at them
screaming Who wants it first! they bolted back around the cornerhe bolted in
the direction he had been running the second time he cut a deers throat along a rural length of Wisconsin highway the truck
ahead of him clipped itnever brakedkept right on going as he passed he saw it convulsing in the tall grass in a narrow gully fashioned to divert rainwater he stopped walked back to it its
hindquarters were twisted horribly its spine was probably broken
You’ll never know when you
might need this.
There
he thought the cry was strongest to his
right up
up in a tree which tree
he slowly turned to face a bank
of trees downhill from him growing behind homes
he stole the sensual power out of his ears and fixed it to his eyes
There threequarters up a digger pine nearly at the
end of a ridiculouslythin branch among other branches there seemed a light tan patch a tanned breast it looked from where he stood like a huge chickentoo
light to be a turkey easily a stone weight motionless asif it recognised the being down below was
looking for it and not moving it appeared
to be any one of several gray boughs of parasitic mistletoe thriving in the
diggers crown
then with another cry eversoslightly
it turned its headgave itself away perhaps unable to resist a tell
huge
a hawk
a young eagle
from where he stood he couldnt say
he marveled at the gift of its presence
and lingered
several vehicles hurtled past him
ignoring of the twentyfive mile per hour speed limit passing him they pulled briefly
at his open jacket
maybe it was time to a carry a
brick with the kbar
You’ll
never know when you might need this.
1317, Day-between-Two-Ts, 30 1.
19
1400, Sunday,
10 2. 19
she walked her cartmaybe two three loose plastic bags in it to one side immediately outside of the 99¢ Store automatic
doors and stopped to hold her cellfone to her ear
I can’t she said
I can’t. You’re gonna have to wait til my
next payday before I spend any more money on you.
No.
I can’t.
Please.
Stop.
Please stop. What money I have
left is already spent. I have bills due, I’m not gonna give that money to
you.
her expression was pained
as he walked past her he wasnt going
to look her in the eye wasnt going to acknowledge that he overheard what
she said what
she pleaded
I can’t, I can’t. Please find
someone else to help you. You’ve tapped me out.
who would do that to her
who would she let do that to her
who would she let do that to her
the usual suspects
walking up behind her he noted
her flaccid legs she couldnt run on them
if her life depended upon it her spine
was stooped her face was linedshe wasnt
old shed been worked over the whole of
her life and whoever was on the other
end was probably only one of many who worked her over
you dont have to lay a hand on
someone to beat them and she was beat up
I can’t. Please.
Please ask someone else.
I’m barely feeding myself. the loose plastic handles tossed in a wind
that came up shook anchored by what
little they contained
she shopped in a 99¢ Store for Christssake
if he was panhandling he wouldnt dare ask her for a cent
for some reason she just couldnt say NO and hang up
I can’t isnt NO
NO
HANG UP
SLIP THEIR LEVERAGE
DONT ANSWER WHEN THEY CALL BACK
because they will
a halfhour later he was still twisting on her hook Fuckin people! he said out loud to no one other than himself if someone glared at him hed bark FUCK! then Sorry Tourettes he didnt mind lying to strangers hed never see again in his life Fuck em Fuck em if they couldnt take a joke
1458, Monday,
28 1. 19
1308, Saturday,
9 2. 19
B B King How Blue Can You Get https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l45f28PzfCI
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