Chapter fifteen, following fouteen, and following fifteen is the paperback to this novel.

It's the end of an era, the sticky side of a post-it note,

unimportant, the conclusion, the knot of a bow,

the smack after years of cascading head first,

the skull bursts, the neck cracks, the body folds

in half, and once again, hot dog style

but none of this is really important, is it?

because we knew half-way in what the tail of

the slobbery hound looked like,

short and pointed

sharp