Humbled
So I’m sitting here, writing, in my angry place. About suicide, the state of the nation, all these deep poems. Trying to decide which terrible thing to post.
Then I get a group text from my sister. It’s a gibberish link.
She does not stay up late at night. She does not use ellipses, ordinarily. And she does not send links. She’s not really techy at all. She doesn’t even open the links we send to her!
Spam spam spam spam spam.
I tell her she’s not being herself, and to change her password. My sister didn’t respond. Everyone in the thread considers themselves lucky not to have clicked it (except the one person who did and it didn’t load).
The preview said “dogapillar in my back yard.”
The group is disappointed that we can’t click on this enticing link. We try to find adequate replacements in GIFs. No dogapillars, unfortunately. Caterpillars, cat caterpillars, and old men with caterpillar mustaches. Images abound. Nothing can fill the need. We didn’t know we had this need until we weren’t allowed to see it.
Then she messages again and says that she really did send it. This was it:
So was sparked much discussion on what the appropriate time and syntax is for sending pictures of dogapillars. Should there be a code word to accompany it so we know it’s a legit dogapillar photo? More related GIFs and photos were exchanged.
At long last, the discussion was concluded, and bedtime announced.
I got back to my poetry rant. It looked so self-important and… small. I can’t post this shit. I have a hard enough time taking myself seriously as it is. Nothing compares to long, ridiculous dogapillar-centric conversations. I have been fully outmatched.
Hurray for dogapillars and all they convey! Mona
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They carry the hopes of man on their generous backs
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Cannot wait for its final form…what a glorious transfornstion that might be!
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LOL!
Would that just be… a butterdog?
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Houndmoth? Butterpooch?
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That is just funny as hell!
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Haha, it really was! Detoured right off a cliff
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That is fantastic!! I was completely unprepared for the hilarity. Thank you! The six-month-old golden retriever puppy at my house this week tears down the driveway like there’s no tomorrow chasing after a tennis ball hit strongly with a tennis racket and nothing matters, nothing, I tell you, except getting that ball into her mouth at the soonest possible moment. Sometimes the ball hits a stone and bounces off at weird angles or hits a branch and ricochets — no matter to Willow — she’s on a mission! What a very long and bendy dogapillar that would be!
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she’d be like one of those low-res computer games where the snake gets longer the more it eats, until you can’t even steer it anymore, hahaha
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