It is Later Than O'Clock
I walk the circuit from my house to diner to park to dog park to the perpetually closed pizza place to the abandoned school back home At the abandoned school a man walks a curly mutt the size and color of winter The dog stops and sniffs my hand The man clicks something plastic and gives the dog a treat The dog stands up using my shoulders for leverage What's his name I ask The man says Mortimer and Mortimer drowns me in tongue He gets neither click nor treat The man picks Mortimer up though the dog is at least the same size as him if not bigger and walks away
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