thall learn him

                 he tried to resist flipping through the book Cutting-up in the Kitchen Butcher’s Guide before going to bed

was prettymuch review for him

                                  did two summers in Missoula Montana killing slaughtering butchering beef veal pigs rabbits chickens

he went to bed

they who they were he had no idea

                                       they left him a carcass to butcher left it outdoors on a stout woodblock table cheesecloth laid over it to keep off insects

 

undraping it

               it was an undetermined  thorax

hed never seen anything like it

there were bones

unsymmetric

                if he had to sayguess  what       a boned mollusc   oyster

he could feel them? under the skinnedflesh  purplyred thin yellow brokenskeins

he draped the cheesecloth over it again

                                          because that was the way he found it

despite no insectsflies coming around

went back into the house

the note said theyd return that afternoon for the cuts

                                                        

he figured hed sit tight for them to come and they could tell him what cuts they were expecting from an anatomy he didnt recognise

he wasnt anxious

a little miffed

                it insisted he wasnt a butcher

they could instruct him

                         or they could take a hike with the substantial body

if he hadnt made coffee sat with a cup to read the paper do the crossword play Jumble hed believe he was still asleep dreaming

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