Monday, July 14, 2008

Dog whinney blimp


(From Publishers Weekly) "Baynes's primitive black-and-white illustrations in the style of prehistoric cave drawings are simple and evocative. However, the story of the way in which wild wolves evolved as ancestors of today's domesticated dogs is a little far-reaching: wolves forage at the campfires of early man, hoping for scraps; a tribe's children find an orphaned cub and tame it; the grown wolf performs heroic feats, protecting and aiding the tribe with fierce loyalty. For all his feats, the tribe makes him a god, but he hangs his head and turns around, embarrassed by the honor. And so, they turn the word god around and call the wolf "Dog." This is written in a straight narrative that seems almost drily factual; it doesn't match the mythic or oral tradition of storytelling suggested by the drawings. Ages 5-9. Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc."


make sounds, make food, transcribe verses, wallow in words, fly overhead but slowly, talk like a horse, eat like a man, prescribe drugs for your ten gallon hat, take a slow curve to the left, mark my worms, don't hogtie the hog until the tiedye is dry, beef up, boogie down, lock up your hair for the umpteenth time when it scribbles goodbye on the mirror, bill me later, plan the seeds of awakening in my salad, google it or lose it, one stroll over the line sweet jesus, did my puppy chow choice of illuminations break some wavering light across this stable of fortune, oh mantle of recognition, come over me with plastic ears on wednesday having lunch at my desk, bleat bleat bleat from the street street street, hoedown motown roasty toasty bumble stumble fido hiho bigamy figatree capulet snapubet orange doorhinge.

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