SIMILES
SHILOH
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I whistle. It's like pressing a magic button
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long ears flopping, tail sticking up like a flagpole
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tail going like a propeller
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My dream sort of leaks out like were in a paper bag.
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Shiloh lays low on my lap, tail between his legs, shaking like a window
blind in the breeze.
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I can smell his chewing tobacco, strong as coffee
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Bats her eyelashes against my skin, feels like a moth's wings.
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. . . to an old man whose face lights up like Christmas
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I'm tense as a ricket that night.
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. . . . all the while she hums to Shiloh like he's a baby in a cradle,
not a dog in a box.
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A sound that makes my bones feel like icicles inside me.
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Shy as a field mouse.
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. . . . doorbell that sounds like church chimes.
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I'm happy as a flea on a dog.
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Next two days go by smooth as buttermilk.
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words come at me like bees.
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My mouth so dry it feels like fur.
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Head so thick as a coconut
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Givin a compliment to Judd Travers is like filling a balloon with
air.