Dog

Vidalia in his pocket, Frank Leigh Deary walks on down the Lost Highway. If the dust weren't so thick, he'd hum. But the Highway's full of dust today. His mother would have said, today is
dry as an old bone buried in the junkyard.
It is a dog day.

Frank Leigh Deary daydreams harmonicas, wiggles
his fingers over imagined gap-toothed instruments,
wishes for a partner with a ukelele.

A few nights ago wakefield and i saw a ghost dog.
I wouldn't have noticed him because it was dark and he was pretty still.
wakefield saw him and showed him to me.
He very calmy looked right into our souls.
Wakefield sat down and didn't make a sound.
The ghost dog was a beautiful male yellow cur.
After a short time he looked away and walked out of the yard.
Wakefield looked at me and we went home.

it has been postured that perhaps dog domesticated man. early man might have followed packs of wolves hoping for meat left over from the kill. after being around dogs all my life and wolves in several instances, i believe that this theory is more plausible.

Most westerners are appalled by the thought of eating dogmeat. But why? It is simply muscle tissue, high in protein, like the meat of dead cows or pigs or chickens.

In case you're interested, dogmeat is similar to pork, though oilier and a bit redder. It is not to my taste. (But then, neither is blood sausage or whale meat.)

If you like it, eat it. If you don't, don't. But stop turning up your nose at what many people consider an exquisite dish.

Go have some bean curd.

Dogs are not existentialists. They do not just live for the moment. Anyone who has ever walked a dog knows this. A true existentialist does not save up his urine for distribution around the neighborhood.

A dyslexic agnostic insomniac is someone who stays up all night wondering if there really is a dog.

If Man has benefited immeasurably by his association with the dog, what, you may ask, has the dog got out of it?

Well, I think he has had his fun, for he has been privileged to live with and study at close range the only creature with reason, the most unreasonable of creatures. The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the mor laughable of the two animals.