Overheard Starbuck

"Can you see it?"
---"What?"
"Deep in my sad doeful eyes, on my ravaged pastry face--my secret animal smile?"
---"Ahhh..."
"I first noticed it the other day then realized it may've been smiling through me at the world for years."
---Ok, umm... Is it a frog?.. Snake?... Dolphin? ...Whale? ...Bear?... Cat? ...Dog?"
"I believe it's part coyote, snake, porpoise and bear ---a chimaera."
---"Like a griffin?"
"Yeah but my animal self's never been pasted on any inbred's coat-of-arms."
---"Mutt."
"You betcha."