A Binky?? gosh some American thing ah yes treasured possessions thanks P
that's me
On 19/01/2017 04:48, sharon brogan wrote:
> Binky
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> My little dog had a binky, a soft blue toy he carried everywhere,
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> upstairs & down, inside & out, into his crate at bedtime, & if he
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> lost it, he was frantic, tiny black dustmop searching every-
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> where, coming to me with pleading eyes, but then last week
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> he really did lose it, perhaps – filthy old thing – tossed by cleaners
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> or forgotten & buried in two feet of snow, so finally he chose –
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> instead of the identical blue toy, purchased at the same time
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> from the same place – a neon pink rubber ball, carried about
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> in the same way, with the bonus that he can play with it himself,
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> drop it from the chaise or the top of the stairs & tear off chasing,
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> but yesterday he left it outside & when he went to collect it,
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> it had frozen & he couldn’t keep it in his mouth, picked it up,
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> dropped it, came back to beg me to get it for him, so finally
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> I put on my coat and boots & went out to get it myself & it was
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> so cold it burned my hand & as I stood from picking it up, moving it,
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> warming it from hand to hand, I realized this is so human, so like me,
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> this terrible attachment to inessential things, even things that burn,
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> not only things, but people, wanting that person, that man, him him
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> him, I want him, even if I’m burned by his coldness.
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