"That a Bear May Be Better Off Long-Lived in a Trained Bear Show Than Loping along Scraggly Highway for Shorter Spans" by David Blair

Is it better that a bear be long-livedin a trained bear showor to lope along his six-years with coneflowersgetting more and more distantfrom the blueberry bushes?I woke up certain that my small daughterand I had dreamed the same chicken faceswith goat horns that tried to initiate our friendin his meditations; the start of fall is feltin the air above the wood chipsas a sudden slight dip in the bathtub temperature.With some mountains, mountain-ness comes first,and that's scary when first driving into them.Is it better to leave the beachon a gray day or a beautiful dayand then drive back across black woods?Those were good girls that showedsmaller kids how to straddle slick lake rocks.This mountain creek is not really a river yet.In the lake shine, there were some chunky girlswading in clear water with bellybuttonsdeep as the largest olives at the market,and jug-heads in the water, whoever theywere, were weirdly hostile in their gangthat seemed to need a trainer, a small car,hay and meat, a barrel to jump in with a bungholeand a lick of ice cream. The waitress,had she the somewhat dirty-looking hairof a roadside bear? How many colorsof rock are there on these roadside seamswhere the bears eat underthe power-line up the cut?