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There’s a dead dog on the sidewalk. The dog looks like my dog Sasha, but this one’s hair is matted and theres a large red stain, Of blood around the dog’s neck and right side. My dog does not have these features. I approach it and look closer. I cover my mouth, careful not to breathe in the animal’s death.“That dog is dead.”“That dog is dead.” And just then, The dog stands up! Almost as if his words reanimated it. I step back and distance myself. The dog looks so much like mine, but the blood matting its side and now the clear cut, across its back and neck betray its loyalty to me. In the eyes it’s still kind, but it’s clear it will bite me if it gets too close. I start to walk away and it starts to follow me. I take a few steps back and it mirrors my movements, though slightly slower. Every few seconds the dog speeds towards me but doesn’t, bite. As the dead dog’s game of chase moves further away from the sidewalk where I found it, the bursts of speed become more frequent and the dog gets closer to me each time. I look back and I don’t see the dog, Then suddenly out of the dark it speeds toward me, grabs my wrist with its teeth, and connects the bones in my arm to the bones in its maw. * I saw a dead coyote last Sunday. I had a feeling when I was driving that I would see one and when I look over to the side of the road, I saw a log that kinda looked like something, but not even ten seconds further, there it was. I had a feeling I would see a dead fox actually, but instead there’s this coyote. * Theres no visible markings on the coyote From any car or gun, Though its front paws are curled up into its sternum And its dark tongue sticks out of the mouthslightly. It looks dead but it looks like it’s been placed here on the side of the road after it was killed. I look up and see the rock waterfall that I’d been hearing. The water runs through icicles that still hang on the edge of the vertical stream. Even though it’s cold.
i would love to be able to caption my video. i’m waiting with bated breath to embed videos into you. i dislike the way the embedded youtube video player looks. a large red arrow on my otherwise very minimal, very yellow page. on the upside, the video quality suffers only from the compression of the youtube platform and not from anything on you, substack. vimeo would be the best option; however i would need to shell out the big bucks for a premium upgrade. hm. i have decided to post a bandcamp link and a youtube link - i know. i wonder about you. i really do. the video is quite large. 7.1GB. i know it might not seem important but it is. at least to me. you are capable of so much, certainly 7.1 GB doesn’t frighten you. it shouldn’t. i believe in you. i wonder if i could live stream from you… a happening for the few of us. youtube or twitch might be best for that, but you contain multitudes. but i can wait.
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