a dead man finds his way into our hearts simply by opening the door and walking in he pours himself a drink speaks aimlessly about hunting or some bats he saw on the way over wheeling around each other look how they spin he says it is like the ripples atoms make as they hurl past each other in the space between their bodies we mention the eels at the aquarium how their bodies knot while mating the dead man was a boyscout once and tied a lot of knots his favorite was the one with the rabbit and the hole and the rabbit going in and out and around the tree the dead man liked it because he liked to pretend that the rabbit was running from a fox and the rabbit always ended up safe back in his hole