crossing the yard to feed grim glancedright
glanced at slim
no
slim
abrupthalt
almost pitched him onto his face
The fuck Slim
not that a seedling has ears
or if it did understood English
The
fuck
the twocup
tincup fell from his hand scattering kibble in the grass he cut the day before cut up to slims tiptoes by its leaves a black walnut seeded by its parent now felled because his
landlords feared it would fall onto their rental used the same rational to cut down an apricot
directly behind the house threatened nothing although slowly dying his landlords harbingers death arborists
demise surgeons
reaching the spot where slim grew
the turf was tugged
he knelt
flopped it
the earth wounded by the uptorn root
The fuck
Slim
he was upset
verging on tears
this was slims third year
thinking it a weed he almost uprooted it but stayed his hand stayed the weeder tool
since named it watered slim babied slim
really relished slim as he
relished the other trees he planted on the property
had
to have been a deer
an undear deer
something moved in his heart
loss
he was really tired of losing
sister uncle aunt uncle daughter mother inside
two years
slim
he stood
his heart didnt come with
him
he stood still
until
the cavity in his chest slowly refilled
he backed away
backing away he
almost kicked grim with his heel as she ate kibble from the grass
she sneered You couldn’t put it in my Hello
Kitty plastic plate?
What the fuck?
a lot of that
goinround
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