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“That’s a coyote,” I warned my neighbor, who was sprinkling dog kibble onto the road singing “Come Eat My Babies.”
Her voice Mexican but I couldn’t make out her face or figure…. the street lamps being smothered by the summertime foliage of enormous trees wafting up there amongst the power-lines.
Coyotes are ok with me , a tribute to these trees which protect my strange enclave of the world from the fumes of LA freeways, among other things…
The sheer variety of tree in the Heights has been a never-ending source of wonder
every year
for way too many years
Lived here Long enough to want to praise to you my very own captors,
My Stockholm Pines,
The last treasures not stripped from Bluebeards ship.
Back to The Coyote, His Lover, The Mexican Woman, and Her Kibble…
For as long as I have lived here, one big tree has been embroiled in a frantic, violent sex match with a Cactus, who snakes, pipe-sized vine with spikes, up his strong Trunk, both of them presumably aroused by the interspecies of it all, since neither are dead after 10+ years of life together. The amount of times I’ve marveled at this whole bizarre mixup and said to myself, “yep, that’s exactly what it’s like…”
The Mexican woman, her Kibble, the Coyote and his Lover (because coyotes are never alone, even when they appear to be). Nothing happened, no payoff. It was all just an excuse to tell you about the cactus and the tree.
When the neighbor lady did respond to me, after I had repeated, as an LAPD officer who enjoys paddle boarding might repeat: “Ma’am, that is a coyote.”
“I know,” was all she said.
“Right….” I nodded, coyotes closing in around us as she poured mountains of kibble in the roads middle.
I walked home and put picked flowers into a teacup.
Announced to Seven people seven times that I grow flowers nowadays but nobody has yet to ask any follow-up questions.
What can you say?
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Prophetic People
Become Reckless With Words
Long After the Channel Turns
Half Painted Pictures
into Pregnant Urns
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Long as she knows what kinda characters shes
mixing with…
What can I say?