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
