Baby Gates

first published in the avalon literary review

There are baby gates in our house

but there are no babies.

The gates are used to stop the deaf dog

from pissing on the things we don’t want him pissing on.

We trip over the gates and get mad and move them to the side

and forget to put them back and the deaf dog pisses

on the things we didn’t want him pissing on.

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