Bilocate — part four (the winged, the legged & the devoured between)

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picking up from Bilocate — part three (back off the job)

	Shuffle through: months of stubborn days escape their call to duty with failed preoccupation. 

There’s so much to sort, stage & plot against. Meander. Duck. Review. Find fault. Document then delete — so much to not-do, in fact, there’s barely time to sleep. Solvency is also synthesis, in spirit — it puts you down & lets you dream.

Accept this defeat as a shady victory. Take a lap from your side of the window. Knot the drape-ends to a V & watch out. Tree branches shrug, interrogated by the wind. Drift as if absently slow-dancing with them. Wonder, fruitless.

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	Sunday drops by empty-handed to toast the fallen, prompting you to leave.
 
Crows squawk outside-down at one of the sociopathic neighbors who stands in the avenue & stares up at a tree in the yard. Near the curb, there’s a bone with shimmering pink meat shards spiking out as if torn off in a fury then lacquered. The neighbor mumbles something to the crows, taunting a cross-examination about the hock, then turns around, goes back into their shack & opens a window. The crows go quiet. 

It seems safe enough now to venture out.

After locking the front door, notice that pickaxe bought over the summer to battle a rogue community of deep-rooted invasives. It was used just once, up until a close call with accidental injury. It's been leaning in a corner on the porch ever since.
 
Walk onto the street, past the hambone & then down the block. A small dog paces behind a fence, yelping in patterned barks sounding "RAT! RATRAT! RATRATRAT! RAT!" Keep walking, hoping that the dog has merely misjudged you.

Stop at a gas-mart. Inside, a windbreaker stands over a condiment area, speaking while rifling through plastic sauce packets. A meatball sub sitting at a table & looking out the window to the parking lot chews on a bun & occasionally spits out short spastic sentences muffled by bread & saliva. Without looking at each other, the two discuss the appropriate price for a used .30-06.