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PREFERENCE, by BERTON BRALEY Poet's Biography First Line: Those little woolly insect things Last Line: I like a dog as is a dog! Subject(s): Animals; Dogs | ||||||||
Those little woolly insect things That yip and squeak, I loathe, I swear; I hate the tiny tyke that springs Upon your lap and leaves his hair; The silly Pekinese that stare As though their brains were in a fog Are something that I cannot bear; I like a dog as is a dog! The minute hairless freak just stings My temper to a furious flare; The in-bred Spitz or Poodle brings Into my eyes a maniac glare. How can one with such playthings share Work, hope and pain, or with them jog In comrade-wise life's thoroughfare? I like a dog as is a dog! A dog whose very barking rings With joy and trust, whose eyes declare A love and faith denied to Kings; Who's with you in defeat, despair. A dog with size and strength to spare Through roughest, toughest paths to slog. His pedigree? What do I care? I like a dog as is a dog. ENVOY Old pal, you have a knowing air. It's you I mean, who, all agog, Wagging your tail, sit beaming there I like a dog as is a dog! | Other Poems of Interest...TOMORROW I LEAVE TO EL PASO, TEXAS by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA SENTIMENTAL DANGERS by ANDREW HUDGINS SHOOTING THE DOG by JUNE JORDAN AFTER AN ILLNESS, WALKING THE DOG by JANE KENYON |
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