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David Gottfried's avatar

The is a really sweet, endearing warm piece. And I haven't even savored the photos yet.

I have recently had a fantasy. WHAT IF WE COULD HAVE A NEW FORM OF LIFE: A creature with the intelligence of Man and the warmth of A Dog.

Dogs are sweeter than people: For example, why does a dog bark when you leave him alone in an apt. and close the door. Someone said it is an expression of his feeling of rejection.

Imagine a creature with man's intelligence and a dog's capacity for affection.

When I was a child, my Mother's shrink advised her to get a dog. I think he oppined that it would make us warmer and thwart the development of misanthopic tendencies. We got turtles and salamanders instead.

I have to say that your experience, indeed the entire way you live, is very different, actually alien, to mine. For example, you say that when you met Beau, he licked Debbie's face. In our family we would be TERRIFIED of disease.

I don't want to sound too crazy, but the second stanza of this poem (I wrote this years ago) contemplates marrying a dog:

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ON MARRYING INHUMAN THINGS

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I want to marry a slice of cake

The sugared frosting yields the sweetest kiss

The fluffy texture the softest caress

The simplest form of connubial bliss

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I want to marry a barking dog

Who pants in earnest with passion pure

Whose loving limbs run to me

Of his love I am so sure

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I want to marry a ravishing rose

Her rapturous aromas beckon me

Make a human’s pheromone’s

An ugly, sweaty entity

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I want to marry a common orange

Shapelier than any woman’s hips

Whose sectored, splendored succulence

Offers unceasing, tingling fillips

..

I want to marry the shining sea

Whose crashing waters drown all foes

Whose pledges last an eternity

Which reflects my rage with hard bellows

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Robert B Batt's avatar

Trying to hold back tears right now. Mathew!! You are an amazing writer sir! Thank you!!

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