1.9.22


  its golden hour
                maybefingers crossed someone shot him as he walked across the field past razedtoppled trees land choppedup into lots some foundations excavated or maybe an interior Mariachi bandit recording him to cut him intoedit him into  dreams   memories  shooting black an white or cinemascope

he was angered 
                  he had argued strenuously before the City Council against selling off the green parcelsarguing they ought to be maintainedEVERYTHINGeverything didnt have to be about chasing the almighty buck
                                                                                                     without greenways yards their community would eventually collapse into sterile urban monotony 


standing at the edge of a trench some threefourfeet deep he glanced a glittering in the crumbledearth rock shale reflecting shards of sunlight whichnot ten minutes later  he would never have seen

he jumped down into it

toed away the collapsedearth

a flask

bending to pick it up not a few feet away more glittering  another flask  then another    another  strung out in the same cease not thirty metres apart 
                                           then the sunlighting was gone the sky darkening quickly 

he put the flasks in his jacket pockets climbed out of the cut and walked home


all four were filled
                   with blood
a little diabolical
macabre

as dinner was going he poured himself refrigerated Ouzo wanted something as viscousabsent colour to mirror the blood
     he could be macabre too

in the morning hed take the flasks to the police lead them to the ditch

he hoped once they were no longer evidence they would return them to him so he could rinse them out and use
they were handsome flasks


friends heard that and freaked
                                 he decided he wouldnt tell them the steak knives they used at dinner were once murder weapons 
               how could he not  they were superior Japanese cutlery Lotus  Damascus steel  Sapele wood handles 
it often used for guitar necks
    he wouldnt say
                        theyd be offended at a minimum        
0746,  Monday,  29  8. 22
1057,  Thursday,  1  9. 22

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