04-21-2018, 05:13 AM
The Dog Was A Lot Like Lassie
Su Su, the Shih Tzu didn’t save
Timmy from a well or catch
burglars robbing the town bank.
Su Su was as heroic as a war-hero
politician, who had never seen combat.
It resembled Lassie not in looks or temperament,
but in that, it was often mistaken for a girl.
Every day my grandmother would scrunch up
her eyes at that bad girl, who would always
lift her leg and pee on the carpet.
Only, I could see the satisfaction in his hard
marble eyes telling me that this was no accident.
Su Su, the Shih Tzu didn’t save
Timmy from a well or catch
burglars robbing the town bank.
Su Su was as heroic as a war-hero
politician, who had never seen combat.
It resembled Lassie not in looks or temperament,
but in that, it was often mistaken for a girl.
Every day my grandmother would scrunch up
her eyes at that bad girl, who would always
lift her leg and pee on the carpet.
Only, I could see the satisfaction in his hard
marble eyes telling me that this was no accident.
The secret of poetry is cruelty.--Jon Anderson