Them animals / by Keres

‘I know what they’re doin’, Johnny.’ Sal huffed. ‘Ugly f’ing things, too. They’re releasing animals here on purpose - no, no, no - I don’t mean them human scumbags you dealt with overseas, and here at home when you got back. They releasin’ tiny animals, insects and the lik’ - tryin’ to see what our environment is like, tryin’, tryin’ to monitor our home. Our country. They plannin’ on sendin’ more of those scumbag animals, here, Johnny? Is that why you tagged me and the little guy - like, like we’re some monitoring system now, like when they migrate too close-’

Johnny sighed over her briefly, ‘Sal, we gotta go offline with this one.’