DOG DINERS
ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE PARK
As you may know, I live in a well-to-do neighborhood of Poe (the rap name for Baltimore) called Canton…whose restaurants now permit patrons, when dining outdoors, to bring their pet DOGS with them!! Now these are, of course, YUPPIE dogs…so they’re highly-bred and properly-schooled (they never make direct eye contact), but THEY ARE DOGS!! You’re having DINNER WITH DOGS!! So here’s what my humble SELF would like to do: I would like to head on over to the other side of Patterson Park (where lies a poor neighborhood named Highlandtown), grab some STRAY MUTT, file its TEETH till they resemble those of a KILLER SHARK, use lifelike mannequins to train it to ATTACK anybody who is sitting in a chair before a plate of FOOD, STARVE it, PISS on it, roll it around in its own moistened MANURE, roll it around in a COW’s moistened MANURE, give it WORMS, DRAMATICALLY increase its FLEA and TICK populations, put it on the LONGEST LEASH money can buy, and head STRAIGHT to Annabel Lee!!!
Now, of course, I know better than to try and get away with something like that. Just like if I lived in the black section of Highlandtown, and I had me a black dog in the backyard…I couldn’t swing open the basement door and (after it finished “dining”) yell: “GET YOUR ASS IN HERE, YOU BLACK BASTARD!!!”!

