Life of Dogs
Coffee cake and ice cream:
great way to start your day.
Coffee, cake, and ice cream:
an even better way.
A comma for some coffee
and icing on your cake -
A punctuated morning
with dogs whose collars shake.
I would have much preferred if
the dogs had slept past four.
Six would have been luxurious;
it’s hard to ask for more.
But four just frankly frustrates;
it seems a tad unfair.
For they will lie and sleep all day
without the slightest care.
Meanwhile, I will be crashing,
come off that sugar high.
The struggle’s real to stay awake;
I may not even try.
Such is the life of dogs,
retired people too.
With coffee, cake, and ice cream
we’ll somehow make it through.
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