cave bear california...

cave bear california normal extinct and on a pedestal or a flag as the state may always be changing and still at the same time symbol and real living breathing eat your species ancient beast cave pain talisman manufacturing ochre and blood to protect your family from being fed to the shaman wizard bear costumed hunter ceremony taxidermy ritual incantation of the sacred chemicals that when properly administered transform a living thing into fabric and feathers stuffing empty forms into our mouths we plant flags like ideology harvested from older things the image grows into words animal becomes a man or maybe just domesticated as the case may be bare life rainy day live outside stay warm museum of not quite ice age but still cold california twelve thousand right nows ago