By D. A. Powell
“Smells like you been eating pussy.”
—Mother Fulcher
Recently, when someone posted on Twitter a photo of two dogs—one giving the other the stink eye—asking folks to caption it with only six words, I thought immediately of this sentence, which my late friend Press Fulcher used to say to her kids when she wanted them to brush their teeth: though it is simple and short, it still seems one of the most effective declarations, and, apparently, applicable in all sorts of settings.