Dog Shelter

from The Milk by Ortega Fuerte

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How I met your scribbled sister: on the wing of a paper plane
Walking to the hilltop dog shelter
Legs collecting stings and scrapes.
And the cloud of the dogs barking...
Working hands clutch locks and leash chains/
Rubber bands hold hair and letters/
Some of these things still remain.

The soup we made in the old apartment left a window in the bottom of the bowl/
Looking through your mothered mishaps/ Cage and curtain, forward roll.
And the cloud of the dogs barking: Neighbor's basement is rank with AIDS/
Stick your toe into the gas chamber/ William Faulkner is not afraid.

And I receive this bread, oh to break for you today.
And I believe the dead/
Are never ever ever ever ever gonna go away.

Broken screws in the brand new coffin/ the worn-out bible on the mistletoe tree/
Can't hear a thing outside of all of that barking/
Looks like the shelter set another one free/
Down the deadgrass hill rolls a grey creature/
Look up his picture in the Audubon guide.
He mocks the lecture of the homeroom teacher/
One of these days, she's gonna tan that hide.

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from The Milk, released February 18, 2006
Words and Music by Hugo Grayling

Vocal and Guitar by Chris Rohlf and Hugo Grayling

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Ortega Fuerte Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Ortega Fuerte are a group of songwriters and multi-instrumentalists founded in 2003 by core member Hugo Grayling and often including the contributions of Air Anchor's Chris Rohlf.

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