How Old Is Your Dog?

Yes, this gorgeous hobbling bluenose pittieis, as you can see, on his late pawsconfused by elevators doorways & corners sometimesmarching muzzle-first against a wall, forgetting how to turnlike a ‘90s Sim in a Sim house with no doors. Don’t invite meto your “pet loss support group” preemptively please.(Your flyers look like sick butterflies on the trees where he pees.)
How old is he? Methuselah. Ancient glacier. Mesopotamia. Old like the rotten teeth that domino out of your mouth in your dream. Old likethe wallpaper beneath the wallpaper beneath the millennial greige compromise color.Old like the plastic grocery bag at the bottom of the hoarder’s stashflaking to spidersilk featherstrips holy/holey. Old likebad language, what goes without saying ishow close to death are you?