Dogs of Summer

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First came the damp, then the cascade of water rushing down the road, then the puddles in the furrows. Nearly every house had at least one bit left without whitewash, the exposed cinder blocks stained with mildew and rising damp. In a section written in prose poetry and without punctuation, Shit thinks how she’d get “the urge to squeeze her [Isora’s] hand and twist it until all her fingers popped out of their sockets until her hands were just gone sometimes i hated her and wanted to destroy her isora’s lips were flush like she’d been smacked on the kisser i’d kiss her on the red bits behind the cultural center. Yeah, but Moreiva, the one round the bend, told me she’s a slut and that she’s always going round bars tryina pick up men and that she’s a drunk. I saw our bodies joined together in the rear-view mirror of a white car, the palm of her hand flush against the skin of my arm.

But the honest truth was that we couldn’t wait until we were finally allowed to wear them, because that way we wouldn’t feel embarrassed about our puffy nipples ever again. It therefore advised men to "abstain all this time from women" and to "take heed of feeding violently".That's why sometimes she gets jealous of Isora, who already has hair on her vagina and soft, round breasts.

When I caught up with her she grabbed hold of my arm, hard, like she was trying to keep from falling down a gully.

Huckahuckahucka and her sick splashed into the toilet boil, then seeped into the sprawling layers of soil beneath the island. For more details, please consult the latest information provided by Royal Mail's International Incident Bulletin. This fascination with the body, its excretions, its abject functions, often links closely with our narrator’s burgeoning conceptions of desire.