Tag: dogs
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An Anti-War Dog Speaks Out
(Photo in the public domain in the United States: Hulton Archive/Getty Images. “American actor Gloria Swanson (1899 – 1983) stands on tiptoes on the prow of a motorboat while Teddy the dog sits with his paws on the steering wheel in a still from director Clarence G Badger’s film Teddy at the Throttle (1917)”. ) By […]
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Rumple Oxbridge: “Ode to Jack, My Apolitical Dog”
(Photo by Jocelyn Augustino (This image is from the FEMA Photo Library.) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons) By Rumple Oxbridge (The Pacific’s imaginary rhymer-in-residence) My dog is apolitical as dirt. Jack licks anyone whose hand is warm and open as a flirt. More democratic than the Democrats, Jack barks only at the cruel. Will he bless or […]
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Ted Kooser’s “American Life in Poetry” Column 470
American Life in Poetry: Column 470 BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE 2004-2006 Considering that I’m a dog lover, I haven’t included nearly enough dog poems in this column. My own dog, Howard, now in his dotage, has never learned a trick of any kind, nor learned to behave, so I admire Karla Huston […]