Wednesday, Mar. 26, 2008 - 10:12 p.m.
The World Behind the Cabinet ****************************** I was sitting at my desk minding my own business reading over a proposal for spelling mistakes and a chipmonk ran past A chipmonk inside my studio.. this would have never happened if Jinky was still here because he can catch chipmonks I figgured he would just go back out through the hole he came in but then I heard papers rustle & I knew he was somewhere inside still Then pal Matt came over to work on the proposal and as we sat quietly reading the chipmonks rustled t unseen papers and whistled some low soft note I followed the sound to behind an old cabinet I keep rocks, crap & vague computer parts in as I approached the cabinet I could hear chipmonks fussing & whistling again when I carefully pulled the cabinet out tumbled a full litre of sunflower seed hulls and what looked like some macaronis and standing by them on tip toes was a fat agitated chipmonk ready to defend his larder & girlfriend against all comers.. We whispered encouragements and assured him that we would not disturb his family and opened the sliding door a few inches so they could make good their escape outside
I wonder now, if the sounds of what i thought were squirrels in the walls all winter was actually a colony of chipmonks and if what i imagined was the night time sounds of mice nibbling away at who knows what was actually chipmonks dining on stolen macaronis liberated from the cubboard last autumn Jinky would sometimes stare at the wall between the kitchen and the studio in the late evenings with great intensity as if he could detect some life going on inside that wall he would often hear things i couldn't hear and noticed things I didn't notice and smelled things I had absolutely no interest in Now with Jinky not around these days the chipmonk society has become very bold and their hidden suburbs have now spilled out into the light and they have set up a nation under a storage cabinet in the corner I hope they take the hint and move outside if they do i will feed them outside maybe they so enjoyed the peanuts I left out for them in the deep snow they just decided to move right inside the treasure cave of the giants whatever their reasons I will have to encourage them to move on because if jinky returns to find chipmonks living in the open in the studio here he will go crazy and maybe slay them all Its not everybody who has a loyal pet who will defend macaroni to the death
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