a small rural town

a slowmotion creek ran through the heart of it

going to sit on a stone retaining wall above the water he noticed in the grass just beyond him someone left an opened crumpled sheet of brownwrap paper on it a started but uneaten portion of chicken breast

                                                                                                wasted

he apologised to the chicken

itd been raise to be slaughtered and in the taking of their life he felt whoever was eating it should have finished or rewrapped it and taken it home to be finished

                                                  not wasted

put him in a surly mood

angered him

    that it piquedpeeved him said he needed to resolve some thing

                                                                           what

what was the irritation

he felt it in his shoulders across his back snakingup his neck

too many shoulder surgeries

they were where irritation and good anxiousness went to goad to play

he paid keen attention

some stealthy quiet oppression

possession

obsession

           yes

obpossession

opposition

            in obpossession of himself

wordslurry slipping slipping  slipping

nerveslurry sparkedsparking

                                sparkling

firing fascination

fascinating

fasincinerating

incinerating

scintillating

Fuck it

          that chickens not dying in vain

rolled over twice to the brownwrap

ate the remaining breast 

mesquite grilled

delicious

tension went out of his shoulders neck relaxed he took a breath

    then sitting upright in a huge stone saucer he gazedsmacked his lips enjoyed the breezeshivered parcels of sunlight emerging through the treesplaying on top the smoothsleek occasionally tremulous  undulating   surface

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