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***BIO***   Born in Queens, NY, Brian McGuigan lives in Seattle 'til a grad school is foolish enough to accept him. He works at Richard Hugo House, is co-editor of when it rains from the ground up, and producer of "A Night of Cheap Wine and Poetry" series. His collection, MORE THAN I LEFT BEHIND, was published by Spankstra Press in 2006. For more McGuigan: www.write2die.com.
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those mother fucking dogs
by Brian McGuigan
those dogs woke me again
a little after 6AM
and I was in a fit of rage
a blowjob
couldn’t fix

usually
I’d walk
on the back porch
and yell
shut those mother fuckers up
but I’ve been working
on the anger
my woman said I should

so I headed for the kitchen
opened the fridge
looking for something
maybe bacon and eggs
when the dogs started in
yipping and yapping
like a pimp slapping
a deaf hoe
I slammed the fridge closed
over and over and over
til my woman came in
and asked
what’s wrong?

those mother fucking dogs
I said
with my head shaking
like I needed more crack
or maybe had too much
so she told me
relax
they’ll stop eventually

but they fucking didn’t

those dogs barked
like a mailman
walked in their yard
and stuffed packages
up their asses
I blasted music
shut all the windows
but still
they just kept barking

so I opened
the back door
and slammed the thing
over and over and over
til the neighbors came out
and asked
what’s wrong?

I told them
those mother fucking dogs
Oct. 2006
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