Attribution: Cgoodall, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
By Bill Stokes
Kickass, the doorstop dog, agrees with the keeper that it is only a matter of time until he and Phyllis are accosted by black clad masked young men who demand that they come along peacefully as the deportation process has advanced to their category—that being “elderly taking up space, expressing an outrageous preference for truth and clogging up check-out lines.”
While neither of them will obviously be permitted to reason with the ICE squad, Phyllis will be singing her birthplace’s anthem “O Canada,” while the keeper will insist that his immigrant great grandfather was not an outlaw horse trader until he got off the boat in New York and recognized the power of money which he did not have.
As they are transported to a dungeon prison in Siberia, the keeper and Phyllis leave behind this note for their family and friends:
“We had no idea the US—and the world were so totally vulnerable to the machinations of a narcissistic madman. Forgive us our arrogance and indifference and please pick up the broken pieces of our hearts and our shattered country. We really plan on coming back—perhaps as reincarnated small schnauzers.”
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