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from gloriana casey
Oh Sirius, you scorcher star,
with your companion Pup!
My brain is reeling from the HEAT!
Dog Days are all mixed up.
I saw a poodle on the road,
my brain began to muddle.
For poodle —right before my eyes,
turned into —-a puddle!
Then next I saw a Pharaoh Hound,
Anubis—- jackal dog.
The underworld just opened up
and HEAT rose like a fog.
The whippet ran around the lawn–
so quickly he did go.
He turned into a cooling treat
of melon gazpacho!
Chihuahua leapt upon my car
and spoke! Well what the heck?.
“Si, Si, for spicy foods, ” he said.
“Their heat makes makes bodies sweat!”
“Say what?” I asked in disbelief,
“I like the clammy cool.”
“Without that sweat, you’ll fail today!”
He barked, ” Health’s Golden Rule!”
A Saint Bernard in my back seat?
A keg around his neck?
“It’s filled with yogurt–not liquor,
warm weather’s safer bet!”
Dalmatian now appeared to me,
my body felt like flame.
“Please eat those leafy greens,” he said,
“in cooling summer’s name!”
I’m seeing dogs! My brain explodes,
” I want–I want– ice cream!”
“It works short term, ” the Pit Bull said,
” cool water is the dream!”
Dog Days, Dog Daze, such great advice—
this gift from Sirius!
Hallucinating Dog Advice—-
HEAT —-makes me delirious!
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from gloriana casey
Oh Sirius, you scorcher star,
with your companion Pup!
My brain is reeling from the HEAT!
Dog Days are all mixed up.
I saw a poodle on the road,
my brain began to muddle.
For poodle —right before my eyes,
turned into —-a puddle!
Then next I saw a Pharaoh Hound,
Anubis—- jackal dog.
The underworld just opened up
and HEAT rose like a fog.
The whippet ran around the lawn–
so quickly he did go.
He turned into a cooling treat
of melon gazpacho!