DOGS

 There is a Porky Pig cartoon with a dog who shouts a poem about the city called, "Da City" here's the part from that cartoon:   Da City

In second or third grade they were teaching us about poetry and they assigned us to write our own. I could not do this at all. On a piece of orange construction paper I transcribed Charlie the Dog yelling "Da City"- -the whole thing. The next day my teacher thought I had written it, I didn't say anything. She fucking hung on the wall in the hall to show everyone, with my name on it. People must have thought I was like E.E. Cummings. 

I was at my second cousins house way after this but I was still a kid. My cousins were in their 20s and it was the 70s. They literally had Charades parties and served fondue they wore fucking velour. Talk about cool pretty sure they were smoking jazz cigarettes. There was a guy visiting once and his girlfriend had tried to kill herself. She was in the hospital. We were all in the living room hearing about this. While she was in the hospital she tried to kill herself again. Barry, her boyfriend, said "She ate a Poinsetia" 

I said "Oh the poor dog." I totally thought Poinsetia was like an Irish Setter.