they cut down the blue oakThey? Yah Call me out Id guess some tree service that submitted the lowest bid to the corporation that owns the shopping mall
blues transgression
it buckled a remote concrete
walk an steps that were poured too close to it
he crossed under it threefour
times a week negotiated the broken concrete rarelyever shared it with another pedestrian
probably worried
corporate that someone would fall an sue
his feeling
Sue me Ill shoot you in the
headmaybe why he never
worked for a corporation only a spaz or drunk or druggie would HumptyDumptytumble
head over heels thats on them not the
trees fault
what he would have given to see
it uproot itself an slog into traffic or stomp cars parked the lot in a quest
for a betterimproved locationonly
thing that turned him on seeing the secondthird Tolkien films was the Ents
YAHnow were talkin trees kickin ass
scraps of blue were scattered
about
a knot in the dirt above where the new walk an steps were being framed
he picked it up sympathised with
it turned it in his hand set it down then gently he patted its fanny Yaoughta git along lil doggie
straightening up he stepped back
and began to turn to leave
blues knot
snuffledsnorted
he tilted his head like a puzzleddog
the knot trembled
an trembling
it began to unfurl stretch stretched aspects to either side poked outemerged an emerging more they shaped into fantasticwings the rest metamorphosedshook violently the wings elongatedtwitched its whole spasmed
fixed
turning it faced him briefly shiny coalblack eyes CRAAKd
reared flapped then turning away it
leaptflapping an rose into the air into the sky passed through a venue a volt
of turkey vultures an soared inland heading towards the distant blue hills
1440, Reggaefriday,
11 8. 23
0907, Saturday,
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