feral found him either it had its way or he did
mountain animals of Montana
wildlife hiking National Parks if you
wanted an eye-to-eyean upclose heartpounding personal encounter take a
hike with him
he didnt know otherwise
perhaps opposites attract likes know and fall in together
they didnt fear himhe didnt fear
them
that he found comfort in bears
hummingbirds bees elk lions bison deer coon coyotes what? they had an enduring mutual respect
his feral animals these days were
cats
they found their way
they found him
then finding them skulking
around his yard he befriended them fed and encouraged them
he did pay in bits of flesh
but you cant dance and not get your
toes stepped on
recent state measures which outlawed
feral cats infuriated him
if someone wanted a kitten they
were to acquire an animal bred by catteries
as if human beings were responsible when money was heaved into the mix
breeders tweaked the gene pool
they fashioned animals
itd gone so far that now
geneticists were tweaking the human genome culling out bad genes
for Christssake what else did they cull
he supposed scientists hadnt read
Mary Shelleyhadnt read speculative scifiSterlings Schismatrix his shapers and
mechanists
if he knew one thingonly one
thing about human beings
they were imperfect
they were dazzled by the bright side of everything
and if you tried to turn the coin over they resisted
they refused to game-out the
possibility of their interferencetheir very bright incompetence
their incompetence ran the gamut
of their sciencestheir social worlds political business and technological
worlds
they worried the Immediatethe Now
because they would be dead when the murder of crows came to roost
they ignored the ramifications of
earlier failures that ran end on end generation after generation before them
because
of course they were doing it betterhad better more efficient
tools and analyses more data as if rudimentary datathe basisthe founding
of their efforts was null and void
WE CAN DO IT BETTER they
exalted
and who cant look into the bright
light and promise and not salivate
shit always had its place in the
mouths of men
one generation after another
quaffing deep Derbys Doses
one might think we would learn
wed seen it before
we knew better
feral came to him
he accepted them and he did his
best to encourage their natural continuation
it seemed to him they had done
well for thousands of years
who were we to think we could
manage or alter them
1401, Saturday,
7 10. 17
Steppenwolf The Pusher
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmdDMGp8IS8
Zager and Evans In the Year 2525 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKQfxi8V5FA
