A puppy's death, a dog's life

Today's poem:

To live in a home is not living
It's just breathing
You piss and poop in bed
And lay for hours

Who wants that?

We want freedom
We want it yesterday

Today's thoughts:

The direct killing by a guardian of a person with a disability via starvation and dehydration is shocking to me. But in Kansas, it's perfectly legal. So I wrote about it for my state's largest paper. It got no reaction in The Eagle.

Magnum was a black puppy doused with acid, wrapped in wire and left for dead in a dump. His picture was in the papers and on TV.

Now, dear hearts, wrong is wrong, we all know. But in Kansas, cruelty to critters is only a misdemeanor. But thanks to Magnum and two other cases like it, a bill call Scruffy's Law is likely to pass when the group of clowns we fondly refer to as the State Legislature reconvenes come January.

Here is my bet, friends. This bill we get enacted long before any reform of the guardianship law does. You see, nobody sees the disabled ward die. The reform of guardianship does not have a catchy name or a sad face behind it, just a sterile number.

Maybe we should declard crips animals; they might get better care that way.

Tomorrow, evolution, the law and IDM.

IDM? HUH?