Dog expert

[matsunosuperfan]

Clyde died in my arms
I was leaving the bathing room while
Vicky led him in.  He tugged a few times
So I lifted him up rather than watch them struggle 
And he let out a howl so I let him down gently
But his legs gave and I held him as his heart
Pounded in his chest until it stopped -

I knew he was dead but I wrapped him in blankets
Carrying him out the back to my car
To his veterinarians, in through the back
So no one had to see his body

His mom was on her way home from vacation
To pick him up. She said he loved coming here
He just hates his baths

Poignant and evocative. I would try cutting S1, with "Cylde died in my arms" as the title:


Clyde died in my arms

I knew he was dead
but I wrapped him in blankets, carried him
out the back to my car, then through

the veterinarian's back door
so no one had to see
his body.

On her way home
from vacation, his mom stopped
to pick him up.

"Clyde loved coming here,"
she said. "He just hates
his baths."