From The Joy of Lex:
Life With A Service Dog
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| POETRY AFFICIONADO?
Novelist Osbert Sitwell understood
poetry to be like fish – if fresh, it was good,
he said. But if it was stale, it was bad,
and, he continued, if the poet had
no clue, the verser was advised to try
it on the cat. Now, Frank, our cat, will fly
at my approach, so who better to test
my rhymes on than the muse himself – the best
service dog. Nipper at the gramophone*
was Lex. On no finer house might I hone
my craft. And, yes, I did bring down that house;
for as I read, my sonnets served to douse
Lex, sphinx him. Next his head nestled on the floor,
his eyes flickered and closed and he began to snore.
*Nipper at the gramophone – the trademark for RCA Victor, a dog listening to his master’s voice
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Life With A Service Dog
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