December 4, 2014

telling bear






telling a coworker at the cash 
register today about the college 
student who was attacked 
by a black bear in new jersey  
and died while shooting it 
with his phone (alas, 
phones are amazing, but they 
don't stop bears!). 

i look after the bear 

books at the store and last 
night i found 
a memoir written 
by a woman who barely 
survived an attack 
by a grizzly, albeit at 
the expense of her 
face, which was 
horribly disfigured. 

as i was telling this

a customer approached and asked 
if we could put something on 
hold for him and i said sure, 
what's your name? and he replied, 

KODIAK.




photograph by S. Taheri



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