text © Nicola Field 2007       soundscape © Steven Brown 2007

voice: Clare Cameron

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The dead dog rolled out of the window    the dog
died    the cars were jammed    but when the dead
dog flopped over the half-open window there was
a sudden leap forward     the cars jumped up and
bounded ahead    and the dead dog died    it rolled
over once. And it was dead. The cars surged and
the dead dog rolled over the half-open window    softly
it was a game    it was escaping    leaping out to jump
and bound and play. The dead dog was a puppy    a
puppy which saw the beach and the rolling beach ball
and the rolling sea at the end of the road    and the cars
were jammed again    and a man and a boy as big as a
man walked    they came out of the car    they opened
the door with the half-open window    and they walked.
They walked towards    the dead dog was dead. It was
a puppy with its eyes open. It lay flat on its side in
the road.

And the auntie cried to see the dead dog    to
see the puppy in the road. On the road. Lying down
with its eyes open. Rolled over dead and it rolled over
once and it died    and she cried    she had a tender
heart    she cried for the puppy    and she rubbed her
eyeshadow and her eyes rolled    and she sniffed and
she held a piece of toilet roll and she cried. Tears
came out. And the little girl cried to go to the toilet and
she said I would do it in the road like I do it with Daddy
but the uncle kept on driving and the auntie said she just
must have to wait    and the auntie rolled her head back,
the water in her eyes stopped rolling and her eyes were
still and staring and her eyelashes were bare and thin

and the niece felt the water in her    and she held it in
held it back    it could not escape or roll over the seat or
drip rolling    she held it in    she kept it in    she stopped
it from escaping. And the dog was dead.