If I've Got to Live , I Might as Well Live with a Noth er Person . . The narrator tells us that he's lonely in a big city like New York and wishes he could just live with someone. He wants to be alone, but he also wants to do things his own way, so he decides to take care of his pet poodles. He tells the dog to "shake my job" and "dovey" , and the dog does just that. It's so nice, the narrator says, that he wants to "touch them" and smell them. The dog, however, doesn't want to be touched. He's afraid that they're going to steal it away from him, and he wants them to "make the necessary preparations" . But they don't seem to have made any preparations. They just run off to grab a picture of the dog. He asks if they'll take any pictures of him, but they won't take any of his face. They're not going to take any, he says, because they've made a "mess of it" again . They should just use the dog's name, which is "dog" in this case, and call him "Puppy" instead of "dog." The dog says he just wanted to "get done with work" in a jiffy, and "enjoy some luxurious, high-class lovin" in his free time . So why is he calling the dog "dog?" Nope, he asks, because the dog is "in who are you