kids are cruel
but thats their pedigree
grammar school had yet to curb their tribal tongues
so their hopped up bugeyed
antagonism was wont fresh
without any sense of its death spiral
they pointed their fingers at him
and gasped shrill You piece of crap You slumsoul
Crap?
he
thought they had some growing up to do
a lesser child not thickskinned or bullheaded like he might have been hurt took offence
they were intimidating
there
were several of them
but
he knew the smell of bait and the tact of trolling
like a fat old bass or freshwater
pike
as Time passed
Wisdom
seeped in
their end would come when God
reached down into the water snuffed their gills
and lifted them from the cold
water shaking their lives from them
not clumsy fishermen
one among them must have copped
slumsoul from an older sibling or overheard it
creative
hed give them that
but he wouldnt give them the satisfaction they obviously were looking
for
maybe he figured this was his to teach
an early
lesson
they werent going to have all the
satisfactions they wanted
slumsoul eluded them
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