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Body Snatchers
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50 Body Snatchers Midway Airport to downtown Chicago— one rat terrier jumps at me: a banner of lights strobes the screen in the back of the cab: adOpt mE adOpt mE flashing on & off (now dancing with its spindly little legs) paws slapping the dark bars of its cage. I was thinking of my hotel, maybe a steak dinner, & then the pit bull: restrained with rawhide, stares from its pen. Sickly pink pigment rims the mouth like baby butt skin, a remarkable Cro-Magnon head, the long tongue dripping rivers of saliva. The once-lumbering beagle with oversized brown eyes plops on its cage-pillow: adOpt mE! Same scam as baby adoptions, commercials that say: Make the right choice with pitiful pictures of waiting orphans (child models) Cut to body part/ picture of a dog’s neck with owner tags hanging: Yes! You can own something breathing! Yes, you! Boring, co-dependent you! Be in charge of a body, your very own devil child who will jump & play. Pretend the child is yours & watch it turn into a bastard, bastard, cutting your family sheets into strips— then watch the mongrel attack the dogs in the lovely cul-de-sac where you live: what will you do with all the blood? 51 Now cutting your skin into strips, & all you wanted to do was save the little lost thing, give her a real home, & now look at her: she’s fucking everyone in the neighborhood just to feel alive— she’s hip to your tricks: you wanted her grateful— never wanted her real. [44.205.5.65] Project MUSE (2024-03-28 15:27 GMT) ...