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He was tired, weary even, and then the dog came and sat down and licked him. Stop needing me, he told the animal. Then it licked him again

And that was the beginning of it. The dogs barked with abandon. The cats went at the drapes. The earth opened up and then there were parties

And then he sits at the piano and plays a dirge so sad the dog hurls itself into the fireplace. That is so unnecessary, she says. He shrugs.

She ran her dogs in the park across the street from the house of the old man with the parakeet. He watched her. And thought about his youth.

It rained on the day of the parade and the citizenry groaned under the weight of the cliché. When a cat jumped off the roof, no one laughed.