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The dog bites the hand / The hand pulls a hair / mixes it into his (the hand’s) protein shake / slaps the dog with a cutlet again / grills the cutlet in a cast iron skillet / He’s literally never washed it / Not even the fake way you’re supposed to wash cast iron / Like a college comforter / that motherfucker never sees the water / or a sud iridescing / By the way here’s a list of things that happened to me today / I’m not making any of this up / Number 1 / A coworker told me to stay on the call after the meeting / so he could talk dreamy at me / Said my state has it all figured out / Said the snowflakes obstruct his free speech / Number 2 / A manager bandied about a switchblade during our daily sync / He explained it was his fidget / I’m not making any of this up / Number 3 / A man followed me home / I hid in the ditch the truck drove into last summer / Fat worms at eye level / I lost him / Back at the ranch the protein shake guy is looking for plane crash vids to watch with dinner / Anyway the dog’s never felt the cutlet cooked / Anyway the dog’s not there