Monday, May. 21, 2007 - 9:31 a.m.
Jinky meets the Dog Community
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I let Jinky out to play
and sat down to answer
Victoria Day emails
I can see him through the window
as he sashays across the street
to visit the new people
in the new house
directly across the way here
They are almost done
moving into their brand new built home
that Jinky has been visiting everday
of its construction to interfere
with the
various teams of workers
at every phase of assembly
The new people
moved in their furniture last week
It all looked new and white and comfortable
I noticed their enormous wide screen TV illuminating their living room at night
like there was a strobe light in there
and it has only been this weekend
that they have been able to sit on their own
brand new front porch with their grown children
drink coffee and just sit
and enjoy their new home
their new neibourhood
and their well deserved peace and quiet
Thier crisp Gap clothed son
his short haired ipod jock wife
and out of control dalmation puppy
are visiting from the evil city
in their white car
bike racks installed over the back bumper
everybody is wearng new sports shoes
and they have brought
all the Holiday Weekend newspapers'
all the way from Toronto
The puppy is all over the porch
even though tied up with a red colar and lead
gulps water from a brand new
black plastic dog dish
I can see the price sticker from here
Jinky appears from beneath their parked car
tail waving like an olympic event flag
to parade past
the assembled cast of family
just because he can
the dog goes bizerk
and knocks a coffee mug
perched on the railing
sending it tumbling into
the bare soil garden below
three people are on him
like a football tackle
to subdue his passions
as he yelps and thrashes in vain
Jinky deftly leaps up onto the porch,
slipping between the railing rungs
by passing the stairs and welcome matt
and as i can see clearly from here
walks right past the dog pile
to roll in the sun
a few metres away
I can see his sassy red tail
waving from between
the white railing rungs
- he's that close to the action
The Mom person emmerges from inside
with a laundry basket of freshly folded towels
and bends down to scold Jinky
Dog people are not usually
sympathetic to cats
and view them
as undiciplined interlopers
Jinky reponds to rejection
by swimming lovingly
between her ankles
The dalmation puppy is now
completely hysterical
and is being hoisted up into the sons rams
as his wife clamps his spotted muzzle shut
with two hands as she shushes him in the ear - ........SHAAAADAAAPP.......
The Mom puts the laundry basket down
to move the casual clubs coffee cups
before they get broken in the fracus
And now that everybody is distracted
Jinky jumps into the laundry basket
and lays on the top towel
to enjoy the action:
One insane dog'
-teased out of control by a vindictive kitten
one young couple working in tandem
_to destroy that dogs natural ambitions
one Grampa person
_ shouting unheeded moral directives
One gramma person
_ watching her dog family towels
contaminated by an invasive species cat
Yet Gramma person
gently picks Jinky up to scold him
after all,
he has broken every rule
of dog fearing society
but he will have none of that-
and playfully bites the wagging finger
while ignoring the dogs spirilng anxiety
as they carry Jinky to the lawn and sush him
-back home
-away in general
-possibly into heavy traffic
Jinky just slowly parades away
and disappears
back under their
new white car from where he first emmerged
if they want him
they know where to find him
