You familiar with deer stands
For hunting?
You are
I am.
Youve hunted
Once in Colorado. I shot a buck.
Clean kill.
We shoud wish as much
Pardon me? he cringed
Don make a face You understood me
Have you?
Plenty
In the bloodlust of my youth an tha I studied
biologysent wending on my way by Mr Demerest high school biology teacher who noticed
I had a keen eye steady hand I killed somedissected all his exhibits
for Open Houses sophomore junior senior year He
missed me fiercely when I graduated He wrote tha in my yearbook
And you hunted?
I did
Bloodlust isnt satisfied in a lab
Rabbit
fowl deer elk worked on a ranch beef worked as a butcher small shop we bought
killed slaughtered sold animals
We shoud wish as much
You’re pretty morose.
No
An idealist realist
You use a deer stand, a blind?
No I hunted I didnt wait You
Time in Colorado we hunted too.
Why ask my familiarity?
Actually pretty funny
Turns out
my queen october has a fly stand
What?
Its something
She loves window ledges
Shes feralhas a longing to be
outdoors
Makes sense.
Yah Found her in the kitchen
window Big black fly buzzed over her
headworked its erraticfrantic way down Octobers sitting still Then
suddenlyWAP with her paw against the glass flygore it dropped to the floor
She didnt jump
down after it
Glanced
Then returned her gaze into the
kitchen Listening I believe for another fly
Not sensing one she jumped downleft
the kitchen
The fly fell behind a cane bin I
use for recycling
I lifted it away from the wall
set it aside
Four dead flies
Sweptem into a dustpan tookem
outside castem in yard into the grass
I washed the smudgedgore from the
glass returned the bin
A fly stand
1214, Saturday,
24 8. 24
1018, Sunday,
25 8. 24