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Alexander

Brian Looney

    The little goat kicks the fence. Maybe just to make a noise, just to capture our attention with the novelty. On the other hand, it could be in defiance. But we don’t read it that way. At least not during business hours.

    A chiming, chainlink rattle which may, on the child’s level, be indicative of Santa’s sleighbells, but is, in reality, the fence merely. The encroaching fence. Merely. A positive annoyance for the hands around the ranch. “Alexander’s at it again,” they sagely remark from behind their brooms.

    The little goat kicks the fence. Front hoof forward, driver’s side. Three successive kicks, like a chinkling S.O.S. I wonder how the little goat developed that little talent. Natural selection at work for you there because, you see, the goat which knows the most about human tendencies, human nature, is going to be fed the most. He will be the healthiest, and hence most likely to breed.

    Alexander has adapted to his surroundings. His offspring will survive, and will, like the father, develop skills which please the humans, which bring more food to their plates. Maybe soon, a family of Alexanders, engulfed beneath an honorary red and white striped canopy, stretched like the skin of some highly venomous reptile between the supports. From there they’ll gaze out at the passerby, like impoverished denizens of a less fortunate country, watching fat and privileged tourists on a double-helping of vacation.

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