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[aid] => mick
[title] => At the Garrison Vetrinarian Clinic: 3:54 PM
[time] => 2007-07-11 04:42:55
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[bodytext] => I came to you once for the bone. It was on the porch where a person could sit and gaze at kids playing gypsy games near where the bought lawns sided with pavement; that's what you told me. Master. You said that was where buttpant prints could be preserved, right there on the porch and no mailman or woman would step on it; preserved until the next butt sat on it. You said those prints, like the bone, meant something old in this brave new world, something tangible among those finely trimmed bushes; something that stayed a little while longer. But, I didn't see it. Master. All I saw was the gray, gray waves of grass and smelt morning mildew, dirt, with a bit of garbage from the trashcan where cats sleep and when I got to the porch there was only sand; the kind from many years ago that never move. The bone lay quiet and still and didn't look like those ones I see on boxes. It was jagged with meat in between each of its jagteeth; it was a morsel to me. Master. You also told me that on the porch there was once another man like me and he was looking for the bone; waiting to get a hold of it in his jaws. But once that poor guy did he became marrow himself. His head shrunk low against his shoulders and body looked nailed to the ground and his eyes were bruise, his teeth were brittle and his nose wept water; a man fastened to a wall with a plaque. You warned me. Master. Yet I still grabbed it and now as I lay on this table, in this bright gray room, with a young girl holding the syringe that she'll use to puncture my skin; I still think about those buttprints. [comments] => 3 [counter] => 343 [topic] => 29 [informant] => skyhawk432 [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 0 [ratings] => 0 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => PetPoems )
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