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it’s a good dog sits

the green or the black olive

he likes pimento

 

he’s a friendly spitz

and barks at the bull run loose

on Chinese New Year

 

or slow boats go by

before the fourth of July

when he goes crackers

as a practical

part-timer clerk in clockwork

administration

 

may cancel renew’d

subscriptions by de facto

lack of interest

 

in a waiting room’s

unimportance an event

at dawn earlier

perhaps I tell you

a secret ingredient

is adjust enough

 

of more that pesters

mind over after the fact

as a bushel peck’d

 

is a rule of thumb

whereas the ol’ nag may nose

& wait a grain bag

lentils & pintos

a saddlebag a horseshoe

the kettles’ pot-luck

 

a box ‘this way up’

reins bow a small pegg’d pup tent

hailstones a bucket

 

inside they scramble eggs

& bean sprouts about a pound

twist ’ems o’clockwise