I want to go unseen walk the streets strong and lean with younger knees shadow and mask a blade, unsheathed to make light work of beasts the alpha beasts to start then all the letters in between “eye for eye” Chi Phi and MAGA Epstein and ICE and all their vice one swift slice to cease and decenter the gender tip the axis defend Her.
The guy in the red Jeep at my back bumper roars GO FASTER and I try, within the limits; arrive to the woods in fight-or-flight and breathe; on inhale, my jacket, on exhale, my phone; OUT OF THE WAY! a dude in a spit-shined Range Rover guns MOVE OVER so he can park HERE here where I’m breathing despite 8 other spaces HERE, HERE! another man yells to a bitch too far ahead, two men now and two dogs four times as loud COME HERE! STOP! I don’t know, don’t care don’t stay leave and park at another trailhead where an old Retriever waits sweet and ghostlike until an angry voice bellows, makes us startle GET THE FUCK OVER HERE! she bows her head greeting, prayer, or a mutual understand that the woods would be so much quieter if we could beat back the invasives just a bit.
