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he takes his time when doing his laundry like every day he will linger longer and check his watch and open every dryer and wait for it- it what is it- he doesn't know what it is- but lets say it is a friend- a friend named ben and ben is a bug- the bug lands on the window smack but no he isn’t dead- ben the bug with the laundry boy and together they don't talk- presence in the silence comforts them both like THERE IS AN ANIMAL IN MY HOUSE just roaming around lily the dog she roams around my house like the bug roams around the laundry room just like that roaming sniffing peeing biting sleeping snoring farting scratching itching rolling stretching eating rubbing smelling washing licking cuddling ANIMAL just roaming the house in and out of rooms that I walk in an out of  - there she is my little puppy dog just an animal in the house- it's a dogs life- she has a little noggin with a little brain little eyes and a little tummy with food in it and she thinks little thoughts and makes little decisions just like we do- she can understand  the wavelength of emotion pulsing through the house like an underlying baseline- someone is sick she knows where to go- right there side by side sickling in bed nuzzling her furry little head into the curves of your body, like force fitting a puzzle but finding out it was the right piece after all- and she crawls in and out of your piles of clothing and even though she smells sometimes she is just so cute you can bear to leave the new silk dress under her nose so as not to disturb her repose- and then when it is happy time the ball jingles honesty COME PLAY WITH ME and ignorance is tempting when the TV is on or the phone rings or your stomach grumbles but pets win you over with their wet noses and there you are on all fours as well rolling a jingley ball and for a second you forget it all like, wow here I am with my puppy rolling balls back and forth and were both on the ground and were both making noise and were both running around and were both playing with toys and it is there- just like that- the epiphany- there is an animal in my house-and I am an animal too.