Your Dog - Advance Base

Don’t go down Highland Street

All that much anymore

But I had to get my glasses fixed

Right there in front

Of the old coffee shop was Walter

Just sitting where he’d always sit

& he was staring in the window

& maybe at you

Or maybe at whomever’s walking him

To fetch your muffins & your Sunday papers

The way we used to

I don’t drink coffee

All that much anymore

When I do I fix it at home

Don’t do the crosswords Sundays

I can feel dumb other ways

I could never finish them alone

Sundays I ride down to the dog park

On the other side of town

Just to sit down in the shade

& watch those puppies running round

I don’t miss feeling bad & dreading every call

The constant screaming dialogue

I swear that there were some days

It felt like I was only

Coming around for your dog

All those sunny days with Walter

Chasing squirrels around the park

& the way he’d flip

When he would see me coming

Like the way he did this morning

With his big old Walter bark

Bark bark

Bark bark

Bark bark

Hey there Walter

Bark bark

Clip of Dog, presumably Walter, barking