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Canine Arts & Crafts:
Naughty Dogs Entwining Knotted Walker
of TheColumnists.com
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It’s calumny and fabrication, I insist,
When people claim our dogs Can’t execute a single trick Or follow a command. |
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Absurd! I take them on
a walk,
With each one neatly leashed,
The crusty old guy lumbering behind
The stylish bitch with flying ears and leaps
Who smiles for all.
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They sniff and stop and
smell and trot
And twist and tangle ‘round the tree
Till well before the mailbox
Leashes have been braided
In a picture-perfect pigtail---
The trick to top all tricks of doggiedom.
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The walker-optimist anticipates
a second trick be done
While homeward bound:
These canine geniuses might dance that minuet, reversed,
Untangling lines and knots
To pristine states,
Extending leashes taut and straight and true
Before the threshhold’s near.
I wish, would that were so!!
©2007 by Paul Hertelendy.
The illustrations are from IMSI's Master Clips Collection, 1895
Francisco Blvd. E., San Rafael, CA, 94901-5506, USA. This column
first posted Jan. 22, 2007.
Paul
Hertelendy is editor and critic of the arts-review website www.artssf.com. To visit his
website, click here: PAUL
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