Non-bleeped out version.

THE WHAT LIBERATION FRONT
by Pat Parker

Today i had a talk with my dog
he called me a racist-chauvinist person
told me he didn't like the way
i keep trying to change him.
Dogs, he said, do not sh*t in toilets
dogs like to sh*t outside & he didn't
appreciate being told to sh*t in the gutter
just because i didn't like the smell of his sh*t
he informed me that fish weren't so hot
about my sh*t either.
& property -- he wanted to know why
people expected dogs to protect their capitalist
  interest
he never watches television or plays
records. how come i put tags on him.
My dog -- he laughed. He is his own dog.
& what's this bullshit about his sex
life. If he wants to f*ck in the streets it's
his businees & the genocide against dogs--
now by this time he's growling & i just
said he didn't have to get nasty -- i was
willing to study the problem. After all didn't
i buy him good bones and have him groomed
once a month & then he starts hollering
about if he wanted to get dirty &
have long hair that was his right too.
& another thing he said -- if he wants to
sit he'll sit, so just shovel my shit about
sit, lie, roll over, stand up. & finally
he said, standing up, the next time i patted
him on the head & called him a good boy
he was gonna lift his leg---& with that
he got up & left the house saying something
about a consciousness-raising meeting.

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