Monday, December 15, 2014
Tennessean Files--Wolves, Coyotes, And Foxes
"Tennessean Files--Wolves, Coyotes, And Foxes"
Me: 1990's--carrier 4 Nashville Banner & witching hour Tennessean. Went from paperboy to King of the paperboys; plus, arrested, suburban-habitat swarmed by deputies for forging 90 page, ambiguous poem; next, leaving the artistically weird document on my American property for a pseudo-intellectual (me too) nurse to fetch, her armed with rebel-like, proud standards.
Anyway:
WOLF: awesome, mighty, don't smell my shit unless you want to be humped by me.
COYOTE: good-looking, crazy eyes, balance, mockery--a fine mystical mutt.
FOX: Eternally beautiful, crafty, gentle yet smartly savage.
My observations of the two:
1.) Neighborhood fox crushed by late-night vehicle. I observed the canine-like family for some months. Deputies had blue lights on to investigate the brutal death of a gorgeous creature. I prayed. Shaken. Pissed. Would date a fox-like human.
2.) Daystar hinting of arrival. Had slung near 300 papers, throwing up, in suburban driveways for hours. Then, roadkill. I stopped. Got out of ride. Bent down. Smoldering coyote passing eternity-ways till resurrection, rebirth, whatever. Smelled the dead-eyed beast, it glaring at the curious Otherworld; hence, I invoked Saint Francis to pray for the sublime soul of such an American survivor. Too, called authorities to have body honorably removed.
Coydogs viewed as well. Local paper, I worked for 'em, reported the hybrid dogs as a violent nuisance. Deputies given unjust authority to shoot on sight. Yup . . . Them the late 90's in Franklin/Nashville Tennessee.