Man licks Dog

If anyone?s seen my dog, run...

He?s one mean son of a bitch

Black as night

Dark as your worst dream,

Low like the tower

He creeps in when you?re offguard,

Even on guard

He has an awesome power

Snarling and gashing he tears at my soul.

Come daylight, he slowly slinks off,

Waiting in the shadows, salivating

as my heart bleeds silently on the floor.

Slowly, I scrape myself up -

What?s left of me, bit by bit,

Jigsawed, distraught,

Stuck together, I turn,

It?s time to pick up my vox-pop gun

and shoot that dog.

I watch the smoke form words in the air,

Good words, happy words, bon mots,

Not lame, dead-end words

like alles tot.