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Scooter
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JerryPat2 Member Laureate
since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975South Louisiana 
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everyday the old man opened the only door in his room and allowed the dog to go ahead of him he followed and closed the door as if worried about intruders there wouldn't be any he should know that by this time maybe he was becoming somewhat addled he'd been here a long time a very long time sometimes he thought it was a dream sometimes but he knew it wasn't the dog's name was Scooter he'd named all his dogs Scooter the six foot by fifty foot dirt walkway no grass it had been walked so much however many years he had been there it was about eight inches deep in the beginning he'd tried to dig out of it with his bare hands they hurt him for that the second time too on the third try they took him to a place opened up his skull and did things to it he no longer had the desire to dig out he hadn't seen another human since the time they did something to his brain that had been a long time ago he didn't know why he was there he didn't know why they kept giving him a dog to keep him from going insane he guessed so he would feel the pain of isolation each and every day he vaguely remembered three Scooter's including this one he remembered dogs lived ten to fifteen years he'd had three thirty to forty years he'd been there Scooter whined he was hungry, probably thirsty so was the old man September 11, 2013 / Jerry Pat Bolton ~*~ Around here a cultured person is one that don't drink dago red from a jar. ~*~ |
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EmmaRose Senior Member
since 2011-03-02
Posts 1376Midwest |
Sometimes your poetry takes me places I don't want to to go to, but it is so much filled with the human spirit in both triumph and in this sweet story of man and dog's shared pain |
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JerryPat2 Member Laureate
since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975South Louisiana |
I'm sorry Emma, that my poetry takes you to distasteful places. Really I am. ~*~ Around here a cultured person is one that don't drink dago red from a jar. ~*~ |
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EmmaRose Senior Member
since 2011-03-02
Posts 1376Midwest |
No need to apologize. If anything I apologize to imply that I don't like it, I actually do very much. I just mean that I feel badly when someone hurts, if that makes sense. Not that I had a painfree life either, I guess I write more fluffy stuff these days |
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JerryPat2 Member Laureate
since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975South Louisiana |
Hah! I understood where you were coming from, Emma, I just wanted to tell you I hated bumming you out sometimes. I do write gritty poetry most of the time. Thank you for always reading and commenting on my poetry. ~*~ Around here a cultured person is one that don't drink dago red from a jar. ~*~ |
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EmmaRose Senior Member
since 2011-03-02
Posts 1376Midwest |
got it  |
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Gale Senior Member
since 2013-06-10
Posts 578Russia |
It's a terribly tragic story, Jerry. Is it real? |
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JerryPat2 Member Laureate
since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975South Louisiana |
No, Gale, it isn't real. ~*~ Around here a cultured person is one that don't drink dago red from a jar. ~*~ |
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jwesley Member Rara Avis
since 2000-04-30
Posts 7563Spring, Texas |
Love this kind of writing . . . and from you even more so. j. |
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JerryPat2 Member Laureate
since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975South Louisiana |
Appreciate your kind thoughts, Jimmy. ~*~ Around here a cultured person is one that don't drink dago red from a jar. ~*~ |
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