<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=410474" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Walking the Dog</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Two universes mosey down the street<br>Connected by love and a leash and nothing else.<br>Mostly I look at lamplight through the leaves<br>While he mooches along with tail up and snout down,<br>Getting a secret knowledge through the nose<br>Almost entirely hidden from my sight.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We stand while he's enraptured by a bush<br>Till I can't stand our standing any more<br>And haul him off; for our relationship<br>Is patience balancing to this side tug<br>And that side drag; a pair of symbionts<br>Contented not to think each other's thoughts.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What else we have in common's what he taught,<br>Our interest in shit. We know its every state<br>From steaming fresh through stink to nature's way<br>Of sluicing it downstreet dissolved in rain<br>Or drying it to dust that blows away.<br>We move along the street inspecting shit.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">His sense of it is keener far than mine,<br>And only when he finds the place precise<br>He signifies by sniffing urgently<br>And circles thrice about, and squats, and shits,<br>Whereon we both with dignity walk home<br>And just to show who's master I write the poem.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Howard+Nemerov">Howard Nemerov</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=410474" data-title="Walking the Dog de Howard Nemerov" data-description="Two universes mosey down the street Connected by love and a leash and nothing else. Mostly I look at lamplight through the leaves While he mooches along with tail up and snout down, Getting a secret knowledge through the nose Almost entirely hidde..."></div> </div> </div>

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