doggy style forever

When i shower, the puppy panics and barks until i stick my head out. I close the curtain & he panicks again: he can't tolerate absence, and invisibility is one of its aspects.

Yesterday the puppy stared at himself in a mirror, then went behind the mirror to see where the other dog was.

Before going out i tell my friend who's sleeping over that she'll have to share the bed with the puppy. When I come back she tells me, I never even saw him. He waited for you by the door all night.

The puppy steals my underwear and trots down the hall with it, looking over his shoulder in case i noticed.

The newspaper vendor misses his dog who died. Every day, the puppy stops to say hello and the newspaper vendor pets & talks to him tenderly. One day he tells me, Animals are part of our spirit.

The puppy makes friends with another puppy. Her owners are an italian couple who just moved to buenos aires. They invite me over to their place for easter lunch, and that's how i'm not alone on that day. We break a huge chocolate egg open; it has a pirate ship inside, it's complicated and we're a little drunk but we manage to assemble it.

Now it's late and the puppy goes to sleep. I watch him dream and feel how i'll do anything to take away the stain of his abandonment. He whines a little, and his huge ears float backwards as if he were flying.