where you at, dog

 

ruff ruff.  that shit we once said.  you remember, dog. wood.  you.  me. i saved your life.  i would have killed.  Left in offense.  i built a robot of my mind out of splinters and left footed the bill through the upwrights.  solid was my intuition.  magic were the vibrations of the glass and the hole crowd cheered.  neared by life we were almost out.  school tried to bell us in.  didn't want us to win.  we wore hats.  ruff ruff.  goes the spirit pride dishonesty.  we all wanted under the bleachers.  remember, dog.  i tried to talk cool.  so did you.  we were there for each other.  through life.  ruff ruff.  through death.  ruff ruff.  we knew how to drive drunk.  that was a sequential possitivly stupid act.  how many died.  we lost.  we lived.  we lost.  we won. according to the board with their life.  we weren't.  i'm not.  are you.  i left that.  i found fat in the winter and spring in the summer.  dance when i can.  watch out for the... man, we used to.  remember, dog.  i used to call you dog, dog.  i used to follow suit and lead with spades.  i coulda been made, ruff ruff.  found out, ruff ruff.  by the realistically hard.  but are any really that bad ass.  do any not soak pillows.  do any not find solace in the trees.  are there hard men who see hard times and stay hard. are there hard women who say things like 'cute dog, dog'.  when dogs bark is it fear.  is it love.  is it heart.  what does it take, dog.  how many kids gotta die before we pull our pants to the waist.  i had to turn twenty two.  i shoulda asked you to pull yours up too.  we coulda done that for each other, dog.  dog, you feel me.  we coulda done that for each other.  where you at, dog.  ruff ruff. where you at...  where you at world. ruff rough.  where you at. 

Photo by Amanda Grupp.  Words by Dustin Whitehead.