Cryptid

I asked his name and he said he wasn't quite sure

but he thought it was BagFat or something like that

that he had heard them scream at his sight.

He looked at me and his dark solid brown eyes

stared down mine and seemed to penetrate their

sockets. I understood it now - this was their mating,

the method biology had yet to uncover and had left

wasting away in the forest.

He spoke calmly after our ocular intercourse,

and he seemed the most contented of creatures.

What brought you here, he asked me?

I didn't know what to say. Rape. Fucked like a dog.

A family torn apart.

But now I understood. The best sex of my life

and I would remember it vividly because it happened in my eyes.

Nothing in particular I replied

And I posed the same question as he had.

He paused for a moment but did not seem irritated,

just completely pensive. Every part of him.

He looked at me. The ape, he said.

He had been pushed here by the ape.

Ironic I thought as I asked him for its name.

Man, he said. The only ape around here is called man.