Nala & Hydrant - a study in symmetry and smells

 

The world is a vexing place

so it helps to sit and think

alongside familiar objects

that smell like neighbors

passing & pausing to pee.

I greet them with a bark 

but my overbearing owner

barks himself, “No bark!”

Dude, I’m just trying to find 

my place in a smelly world.

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