The dog just ate the dog’s food.
Wait – I’m not saying it right.
The third dog took the first dog’s food.
The young one stole from the older one.
Benji ate out of Cookie’s bowl.
It’s not cool, man.
They’ve got different bowls
for different life cycles.

They’ve been trained for this.
I’ve talked to them
I don’t know how many times.
And though it’s mostly Benji,
his damned selfishness,
I wish Cookie would just go to her bowl
and eat from it faster
so Benji doesn’t get a chance.
Doesn’t she get what this critter’s gonna do?
Hasn’t she seen this enough time’s before?
When’s she gonna learn?

I do not know how to drill it
into Cookie’s canine head
that dogs’re just gonna be dogs.

The only one smelling like a rose
through all of of this
is Scruffy
though he has been dragging around something dead.