Thursday, November 3, 2011

Bathroom Monologue: Dog Thoughts

Oh my God give it to me please give it to me I know I've chased the ball like six hundred times and my teeth marks are all over it but if you just throw the ball one more time I'll be happy for the rest of my life you don't even have to throw it directly to me you don't even have to throw it in my direction you can throw it in the river you can throw it into the pitbull's yard I don't care just please throw the ball so I can taste it one more time I know how it tastes I've tasted it six hundred times but I know if I taste it just one more time right now it'll be awesome and I know you're going to throw but the eternal question is when but the eternal question is will I catch it this time but the eternal question is for God's sakes why haven't you thrown the ball?

9 comments:

  1. John, I love how well you get us right into the moment and into a character's head with these snippets. And I love this dog!

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  2. I am pretty sure this is what goes through my dog's head every day. Just the way you have it written with no stops. I didn't know you could speak dog.

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  3. Yup, I think you've cracked the dog code!

    Verification word: "happicia" — would that be the name of the dog, by any chance?

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  4. Rather reminds me of the journal entry of a dog's day in life: http://jpetrie.myweb.uga.edu/journal.html

    Good stuff. =)

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  5. That is so cool.
    Adam B @revhappiness

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  6. Wow. I could hear a dog's voice as I was reading this. So clever, and so much fun to read.

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  7. My dog's going 'yeah, see, it's not just me!' Brilliant piece John xx

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  8. Insert various human pleasures in place of the ball and you've pretty much summed up a lot of my thought processes.

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