A Mountain With A Wolf On It

We New Yorkers See More Death And Violence Than Most Soldiers Do, Grow A Thick Chitin On Our Backs, Grimace Like A Rat And Learn To Do A Disappearing Act. Long Ago We Outgrew The Need To Be Blowhards About Our Masculinity; We Leave That To The Alaskans And Texans, Who Have More Time For It.

To Relive The Relationship Between Owner And Slave We Can Consider How We Treat Our Cars And Dogs - A Dog Exercising A Somewhat Similar Leverage On Our Mercies And An Automobile Being Comparable In Value To A Slave In Those Days

If A Walker Is Indeed An Individualist There Is Nowhere He Can't Go At Dawn And Not Many Places He Can't Go At Noon. But Just As It Demeans Life To Live Alongside A Great River You Can No Longer Swim In Or Drink From, To Be Crowded Into Safer Areas And Hours Takes Much Of The Gloss Off Walking - One Sport You Shouldn't Have To Reserve A Time And A Court For.

Country People Tend To Consider That They Have A Corner On Righteousness And To Distrust Most Manifestations Of Cleverness, While People In The City Are Leery Of Righteousness But Ascribe To Themselves All Manner Of Cleverness.

Animals Are Stylized Characters In A Kind Of Old Saga - Stylized Because Even The Most Acute Of Them Have Little Leeway As They Play Out Their Parts.