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Dinner

read so you remember to feed the dog

By Joe NastaPublished 2 years ago • 1 min read

Green fingers, yellow toes.

Her car slowed with a low

ered window. “Beautiful,”

she cooed to the dog.

She hoped he would

follow her, pull up

into the driveway.

She wandered,

nearly dreaming,

into a large bath

room that looked

out on the garden.

Somebody’s got to feed him.

*

(steals from James Salter)

love poems

About the Creator

Joe Nasta

literary editor at large, American Poetry’s Sweetest Troublemaker, reputed champion of the underground, kind friend please make me happy :)

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