Rinty's actual villaknell.
Old Dog: A Villanelle
I am an old dog and am gently trying,
To meekly go to the difficult dark..
Alone, alone I am slowly dying.
The slow snow drifts down and no wind sighing.
Take out a Zippo and light up a Lark.
No regrets none. No who and no whying.
Sad ghosts outside I hear them all crying.
Mort Sahl’s on TV. Makes a funny remark.
No, thanks Time/Life I guess I’m not buying.
Death’s at the door. The bastard is lying.
“Hey, Rinty! It’s Lassie!” One small sad bark.
Wilder wind now. The snowflakes are flying.
Good Night has come. There is no denying.
Unknown is that country. Stark is the bark.
I am an old dog and am dying, dying.
And you, who haunt me forever sighing,
Crying my name in the difficult dark.
I am an old dog and am dying, dying.
I am alone and am dying, dying.
I am an old dog and am dying, dying.
I am an old dog and am dying, dying
Alone, alone I am slowly dying
I am alone and am dying, dying.
Roger Day <[log in to unmask]> wrote: Do not go gentle into that good night.
Bark, bark against the dying of the light.
On 24/06/06, joe green wrote:
> The best dog poems
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> http://thejeunessedoree.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=85477
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> Roger Day wrote: http://www.e4engineering.com/Articles/295021/Teaching%20robot%20dogs%20linguistic%20tricks.htm
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> No word as to whether or not they're reciting Beowoof to each other.
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> Googling around for dog poems, I didn't know that Elizabeth Barrett
> Browning had written "To Flush My Dog". I mean, how cruel can you get?
> I wouldn't do that to a cat and I hate cats.
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> Roger
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