Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Forest Ranger Dilettante

There was a time Dilettante lived in the forest.
He ate worms.
Bugs. 
Anything he could put in his mouth. 

Sometimes, Dilettante would get sick. 
His stomach was a mess, 
but he was orally fixated,
needed something to chew. 

Forest Ranger Dilettante drank from puddles.
Snow slushees.
He developed a fondness for sneaking into potato cellars
that the local farmers had around their villages.

They were a good hiding place
because the were a little warmer 
in the winter.

But there were rodent. 
To say that Dilettante ate rats--
yes he did, 
obv.

Dilettante wanted to live very badly.
This upset him to no end.
& there was only ever one reason: her.

Truth is she told Dilettante she couldn’t love him.
He made himself forget. 
He forgets why.

He keeps asking himself about it. 
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