for a good meal of chicken and rice and a small siesta, but he would always want out by dusk and be gone again until early morning. i would always try to convince him to stay, to keep him with me for company in the evenings, when i had a fire going and felt especially far from home, but he always grew restless, and always left at dusk.
on the day i left the city for good he stuck to me like never before , i think he knew all of the signs from all of the girls before me, and thought maybe one of us would take him with us 