adjust dialogue later, Felix. "Tony's teaching me how to tie knots," she (Babs) tells me.  I'm still trying to put my finger on why she told me that. I imagine her doing a flying kick out & over the midwest all the way over to the East coast. She speaks of a martial arts crew she is to join ranks with. To kick some ass I suppose. I had the tiniest crush on her. Never mustered up the courage to tell her. i admire the courage that she has to move out to a new, unknown place to build a new life. I will do it someday, when I'm good & ready.  Goin' to get a Kia sophia to cruise. Bad spirits don't muck up my dreams, I pray.  Answer the call quick, for the window is closing like a guillotine. nuzzle up upon my neck with yours. dog poem now. I bark at squirrels. I bark at other things that bark at me first -- I barks at everything under the sun -- I'm a sleeping dog in your lap, dreaming of a bone I buried & a rabbit I didn't mean to kill. if you were to pour beer on the porch, I'd drink it up with a slobbering tongue -- i like being a dog -- fin -- woof woof woof!