Dogs

Get your shit together.

Paint your face.

Dress in calming colors.

Tuck the personal problems away.

Forget that you’re being monitored and judged.

Respond predictably.

Stick to protocol.

(Accept or ignore the fact that we’re dying everyday.)

Fight the entropic temptations.

Revere the central characters (even when the dynamic ones are snuffed out).

Hide your emotions.

Utilize every facet you can to make gains and thwart the competition.

(War pervades; it seeped into unexpected places.)

We keep enemies close.

Pretend like we don’t scream inside at every breath.

We’re all animals.