Critters and Keyboards

So there are many critters and creatures here. The other day there was the guy out front rolling on the pavement letting air out of SUV tires, but that's not what I mean. I mean bugs and animals and plants. Today I surrendered the bathroom to what looked like a man-eating cephalopod. Really, he can have the bathroom as long as he wants, and no, I was not looking in the mirror.

Earlier this year I read a great book on the rats of New York - the history, the politics - they have standing committees and policy revamping conventions, and every meeting includes huge meals, or is that the Republicans?... and then I saw some lovely footage of them on youtube hijacking a Burger King. Rats I mean, not Republicans.

We haven't seen many bugs or rats. Yesterday while I was lost trying to leave Central Park, an odd man thought it best to warn me about the raccoons. I'm not sure what he was implying. There are squirrels at our attic window, and trees, birds and plants flourishing all about the neighbourhood.

Today I wrote a tonne of music, which usually means tomorrow will be a bust, we shall see. Sometimes I sing the notes into my music software, but today I was using a little keyboard. So tiny it might as well be made of Lego. So cute it made an imposingly large airport customs officer giggle. I was going pretty fast, trying to get my ideas out of my head and into the computer. My little ant friend was running around the keys today as I played, which as you now might be able to guess, led to an unfortunate incident.

These unfortunate incidents between humans and other critters probably go unnoticed thousands of times a day in cities. If every critter howled in his moment of death the city would be so loud we wouldn't hear the ice cream truck playing Frank Mills. But this incident could not go unnoticed. Bye little ant friend. "A Flat Ant". Sorry.