Wednesday, June 15, 2022

BORROWING A DOG

 

There is a dog who 

Will not stop barking

I know this because he lives

In a Billy Collins poem and

Whenever I check he is

There and still barking.

I've been meaning to

Borrow this dog and 

Put him in a poem of mine

Perhaps as a foil to

The giant nude statue of

Napoleon whose agent has  

Been pestering me to

Use his client though no one 

Reads the two poems 

I wrote about him years ago.

Collins will be fine; his poem

Will still have Beethoven,

An orchestra, a conductor 

And the owner of the dog

Who will not stop barking.



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