my sympathies toward Sasquatch

we want
to find Bigfoot
but don’t really want
to meet
it

some take guns in
guns
with
needles
some with bullets
as if
it is the thing’s own fault
we push the encounter

I don’t get it

thinking
it’s like the Cold War game
in which
to win
is not
to play

c l couch


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