he overheard the exchange

he was in the kitchen doing dishes

everyone else was watching television

hed rather be doing dishes  wouldnt be joining them

What’s the horse’s name?

It doesn’t have a name.

You haven’t named your horse?

You don’t name something you might have to eat.

                                                    there was a collective groan from the den

made him chuckle

                    hed eaten horse he wouldnt tell them that they wouldnt eat half the things he ate  have eaten

sometimes he thought he might be a secret Asian  ate everything but the oink moo bark baa bubbles it blew

waste not want not

never was picky

gave it two shots

NO

     afterwards wouldnt sit to eat  No thank you  excused himself

You’ll be hungry.

   I will

          never followed the abject necessity of stating the obvious   axiomatic

something he didnt do

repulsed him

   truly

made him think Eejit

Aaw why he do tha  eejit

                            reminded him of a homeless taking one of his tame ferals off his porch followed him to the woods where homeless was going to kill his cat eat it before he could turn he hammered him in the back of the neck his face hit a tree going down peeled crumbled bark face got torn he was cold checked his pulse  had one thought good  if he had killed him hed have to eat him

nothing but him for weeks

                           Jaysus

 

2037,  2sday,  14  5. 24

1045,  day-between-2-Ts,  15  5. 24