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If You Remind Me of My Dog, We'll Probably Get Along (Max & The Pine Cone)
This is a telling about my beloved soulmate Max, and his recent quixotic adventures with a pine cone.
--
We have no choice in the bodies that hold us
Thing of dirt and water and oxygen marked by thinking
and reacting and a couch
one may or may not be permitted
to sleep on. He may not permit me
to touch him or to take the bone
from his mouth, but he does, and that’s a choice
based on many factors, not the least of which
is his own desire to let me
do these things. How I could ever
think or feel myself more
deserving of a single thing than
this being, whom I call by a name the same way
my parents chose a name for me. The same way my genes
went expressing themselves to make my face exactly
my face. This isn’t special. Or this is special. But it’s one
answer, the same, for us both.
Holly Amos
--
Burl Ives version of "I Know An Old Lady" (the version of the song I know from childhood): https://youtu.be/zQHmZMf6zwo
Video of Max that I mention in this telling: https://photos.app.goo.gl/j4eJn8qhS4QsPfkg7
Jose Feliciano singing "I Know An Old Lady" to a bunch of kids on Sesame Street (Episode 763/March 19, 1975): https://youtu.be/Ys-42_FKDDs
Cat Stevens' "I Love My Dog" (Live, 1971): https://youtu.be/ET5drt_utUY
Jane Siberry's "Everything Reminds Me of My Dog" - beautifully animated by Richard Raxlen: https://youtu.be/Y22Ityt7n6Q
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By Steve TellThis is a telling about my beloved soulmate Max, and his recent quixotic adventures with a pine cone.
--
We have no choice in the bodies that hold us
Thing of dirt and water and oxygen marked by thinking
and reacting and a couch
one may or may not be permitted
to sleep on. He may not permit me
to touch him or to take the bone
from his mouth, but he does, and that’s a choice
based on many factors, not the least of which
is his own desire to let me
do these things. How I could ever
think or feel myself more
deserving of a single thing than
this being, whom I call by a name the same way
my parents chose a name for me. The same way my genes
went expressing themselves to make my face exactly
my face. This isn’t special. Or this is special. But it’s one
answer, the same, for us both.
Holly Amos
--
Burl Ives version of "I Know An Old Lady" (the version of the song I know from childhood): https://youtu.be/zQHmZMf6zwo
Video of Max that I mention in this telling: https://photos.app.goo.gl/j4eJn8qhS4QsPfkg7
Jose Feliciano singing "I Know An Old Lady" to a bunch of kids on Sesame Street (Episode 763/March 19, 1975): https://youtu.be/Ys-42_FKDDs
Cat Stevens' "I Love My Dog" (Live, 1971): https://youtu.be/ET5drt_utUY
Jane Siberry's "Everything Reminds Me of My Dog" - beautifully animated by Richard Raxlen: https://youtu.be/Y22Ityt7n6Q