My dog Cannella

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she’s my fine companion accommodation.
I take her with me everywhichwhere, 
it helps me get all
around. She’s no funny rat on my shoulder 
hiding in my shirt
or anything like that, 
no long snake around my neck. It’s
people I don’t like very much. But 
I am lonely too, and
sometimes people will talk 
to Cannella, even to me when
she’s around. Sometimes some.

 

Retired children’s librarian Alan Bern has published three books of poetry, has a hybrid memoir forthcoming, performs with dancer/choreographer Lucinda Weaver, and is an exhibited/published photographer. Find more here: http://www.linesandfaces.com/

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