6.01.2011

Hungry (Leaving Cali)

1. Where the hunt is comfortable, the terrain known, the feeling of danger gone, he will find nothing. The land is overhunted. The animals have moved into the new territory. The hunter must go to where it is uncomfortable and unknown to find the great beast.

2. Women now pick berries in the clearing where he killed the great bear. In the once dangerous forest he hunted, the women walk alone. The triumph of the bear is long ago, and the men and women no longer speak of it. Without meat protein his muscles have thinned, his strength lessened, and he has begun to resemble the women.

3. He must go to hunt in the unknown lands, in those darker forests: his constant hunger is a constant reminder of his lack of courage.

2 comments:

  1. Anonymous1.6.11

    4) One will never catch what he is hunting, for once he does, it is no longer the thing that he was hunting.

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  2. Yes. Hunger always returns. He must hunt again. There is no end. Unless, of course, he retires to pick onions with the women.

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