mum had toby desexed so that he wouldn't jump
the fence/ dad said 'the dog is a poofter now/ he'll
get bashed up by all the other dogs'/ he accused
mum & nanny of hating all men & of plotting
against male dogs by having their balls chopped
off/ 'they castrate the bastards & make fucking
imbeciles out of them'/ dad called small fluffy
dogs 'ornaments'/ & once when we were driving
along in the ej holden there were these two big
labradors in the back of a ford station wagon
dribbling through their teeth with face sized
smiles/ dad knew that mum didn't like crude
language but he said 'look at those fucking big
cunt lickers'/ from then on all the dogs above
the size of terriers wearing grins were called
'cunt lickers' by my two younger brothers
