Canine Prayer

Canine Prayer

Throw me a stick by the offing, so I shall frolic and hope you won't die in harness. Cut me loose on a bollard or a bitch, so that I can have my way in peace, for I shall return to you. Patiently, I'll wait by your side and won't mind your presence becoming more and more mechanical as the day wanes and your eyes glaze over and as you go to your wife upstairs or the other woman I know only by her scent.