SO BITE ME

So I'm faced with a dilemma;

It’s a red meat, quite fatty,
and extremely fragrant. After eating dog
beef seems tasteless. 

form an alliance

Meat from younger horses
is lighter in colour. People use it similar
to the way they use beef.

or find out what budgie tastes like.

Cat meat sells for $1.32 a pound.
Young cats are tender. The animals are raised 
the same way cows are.

I'll lick my bits and ponder on it.

PRAIRIE STORY

Y'all know the bitch who ran from Güber's Farm,
the one lives in the forest
off highway fifteen. They say
she's got distemper, sure barks
at the wasps. One night I disturbed her
knocking over trash; she turned,
black,
          yes,
                 and foaming at the jaw.
I almost puked with fright, ran
to get my gun but she was gone.

Knew a man hit her with his Cadillac,
goes white as he tells it.
She threw no shadows on the moonlit road,
had been nosing the roadkill
when the headlights surprise her.

He'll show you dents — nine
thumps in the right side fender —
bitch must have fought back.
Güber told me she's as strong as tractors.

Folks are terrified:
Three young ones maimed in Lower Salem,
babies taken. High price
for the steaming corpse.

Dog Warden's been missing weeks. 
Can't catch a bitch like that. she can outrun jeeps.
I heard she's got a fetish for chicken wire and burger joints.

CHINESE WHISPERS

'Nita's cat died.
No I don't know a 'Nita either —
not even an Anita.
Who's she? 
                   Is that her natural colour or dyed?
Someone else has died! The dog.
'Nita dyed the dog the way Jane bathed Peter.
Look, there's a picture.
                                       'Nita's hot!
Some days I want to take a 'Nita home...
                                        an' eat her.
Wish I knew a 'Nita or Anita.
But how you gonna greet an Anita
                                        with your stutter?
Let's start over.