“I love you but you can be a real pain.”

Marmaduke ignored this.

“I feed you. I clean up after you. You demand my affection and you get it.”

Marmaduke looked away.

“I treat your worms. I scratch behind your ears.”

Marmaduke yawned.

“Marmaduke, you’re my husband, not  a dog!”

Joe Malone is living in a mud hut in South Sudan. Read more from him at http://joem18b.wordpress.com/.