novembre ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- the buddha triplets saturday night, one am. it has been raining off and on, hard and pounding all night. you am outside smoking and you hear whining. you follow the noise up your walkway to the sidewalk, and find a grimy box and three grimy puppies inside. what is the word for "starving so badly that your belly pumps itself full of air and gas and you end up looking like buddha"? distention? you name them the buddha triplets while they cling onto your chest and you carry them inside. three pit bull puppies. some breed of pit bull, the same kind that killed that woman in san francisco. four to five weeks old. covered in fleas. gently lift an ear and you can't see skin underneath fat fleas. red, filled with blood. set a puppy down and see dots of blood left on your arm from their bites, their skin. fleas crawling in between eyelids. they are calm, this is normal. this makes you want to cry, so you do, while they burrow their heads into your armpits. whimpering, dirty little balls of hair with thick skulls and wagging tails. send the neighbors to the 24 hour kmart for puppy shampoo while they sleep in your lap shaking. they cling onto you like you're their mother. bathtime. blood and dirt, the biggest fleas you ever saw. several times during the night you wander around outside looking for another puppy, just in case you missed one. you name the bigger boy "stinky" because no matter how many times you wash him, stinky he remains. the smaller boy is chompy, and the cause for this name is evident when you are around him in bare feet. the girl is whiny because it is her whines that you heard in the first place. the buddha triplets. collect everything they touched before they were clean and put it into plastic garbage bags, and put the bags outside.
watch them sleeping for the milisecond before they realize you're in the room and they run inbetween your legs and sit there, 12:41 am - 11.12.01 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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