Dang! (that dog)

December 2, 2011 at 4:52 pm · Filed under funny stuff, Mostly true, Poems ·Tagged author, Charles L. Mashburn, funny, http://purpletreehouse.blogspot.com/2011/12/funny-bunny-fridays-week-5-december-2.html, humor, poetry, the dog, writer

 I don’t think this poem got any reads last time around. Dockers is pretty upset about it. So, I’m gonna give y’all another chance. C’mon, give the old dog her 15 minutes!

DANG!

Dang! I said, as I stepped in the pile

My dog had left on the lawn

I looked all around for that little mutt

But alas, the scoundrel was gone

 

Said some choice words, sat down in the yard

And proceeded to clean my shoe

There she was peeking ‘round the corner

With a look that said, I showed you

 

I couldn’t believe the gall of that dog

I jumped up and gave her a chase

Her eyes got real big and away she did run

I was slow, wasn’t much of a race

 

Hadn’t made it half way ‘round the house

When she passed me like I wasn’t moving

Looked up at me with a big doggy grin

Not bad ol’ dude, you’re improving

 

I thought to myself, I’ll teach her a lesson

So, I stopped and hid out by a bush

Who do you think was the one got surprised

She doubled back, gave a nip on my tush

 

I hollered and jumped, shoved my head in the shrub

Then turned on the ornery beast

I saw in her face a joy so intense

Just afore she took off to the east

 

DANG! I repeated, but stayed by the bush

I knew to give chase would be futile

‘Sides, I was thinking as I rubbed on my bum

She don’t bark, but her bite is brutal

 

And so I vowed as the dog ran afar

To remember this painful lesson

From now on when I walk in the yard

I’ll be careful where I’m a steppin’

 

Copyright © 1998 C. Mashburn

Sharing this poem with The Purple Treehouse for their Funny Bunny Friday #5

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