Recognising Other Creatures’ Right to Feed
He did not fight the crocodile when it latched onto his leg and dragged him underwater. He did not believe he had the right to deprive the hungry beast from its meal.
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Dear Fish Feeder
The fish by the door had a little drama today and spent some time on the carpet. So if he ends up a floater it’s probably not your fault.
I miss them
I wake up and see my brother laughing near me and see my other family as well eating dinner.I start to cry because I know I am not in my house but on a table feeding others a piece of me.
The Dwarf
The dwarf in my cellar eats only sightless fish. I feed him because I eat only sightless dwarves.
Accommodations
My parents feed my sister through a hole she cut in the door to her room, which she has bolted shut from the inside, because, according to them, she doesn’t want to eat with us anymore. When I ask why not, my mother said, “She doesn’t like what happened to your other sister.”
In the Lenin Hat
He got his Lenin hat in Moscow, his jeans at hospice downtown and his duck shirt off a clothes-line where the woman hung out a medium men’s with long sleeves to cover the tattoos, so he could get into the Christian Free Feed at the Methodist Church on Francis Bacon Street. If he couldn’t bum … Continue reading “In the Lenin Hat”
He pressed his hand against his chest. It was growing in him, feeding on him, but he still had time.
Kennel
I take my husband with me to feed the dogs. They chew on his bones for hours.
Cat Sitting
She didn’t like going to her neighbor’s house, 3 doors down, because there were no streetlights with the trees casting a frightening shadow under the moon’s light, and it was always deathly silent on their street, but they had asked her to feed their cats while they were gone for two days, so with trepidation … Continue reading “Cat Sitting”
Bird Brains
The chicken didn’t ponder long before venturing out into the heavy 5 o’clock traffic on the busiest road in this country town. All she had wanted was to get to the other side to feast on the sack of corn that had flown off of the feed truck, but she had not really considered, as … Continue reading “Bird Brains”