Tuesday, February 07, 2006

Free to a Good Home?

Baby Talk

This time tomorrow, we'll be in hell, dazzled by a black
sword. Love will be stuffed and shined.

Talk with my expectation, move my desire.

-William Fuller
Sugar Borders


This time last year, I was evacuating my apartment on Granville and Winthrop.
Shoving my pretty belongings into the boxes where they remain, to this day.
One year without a proper home.

They say that when you write a classified ad trying to give away a pet, you should never put "free to a good home." You should always set a price, to attract the best possible love and care, to weed out the animal sacrificers.

Anyone can take home a stray for the night. But it takes more than a bowl of milk to make one stick around.
Especially when there's milk at every doorstep.
Freedom is the thickest chain of all.

And I'm lactose intolerant, anyhow.

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