Hang up Stop the car Find a french-fry for bait A meandering canine Must stop tempting fate! I was recently on the phone with steve while driving down the highway and saw a dog roaming the lanes of 70mph traffic. I tried my best but he wouldn't come to me. I called scrimetime, a fellow dog lover for suggestions. He said "call 911". I did and they sent out animal control to pick the dog up. I scribbled these words on my notebook. -Silly, but within the parameters of your assignment Lil. I was sure the french fry would work!
I saw a pregnant pit bull jog down the highway median in the rain the other day. Before I realized what had happened, I was moving too far past, and it was headed the other way. I wonder how she would have behaved in my back seat. I regret not being able to try.
I fear I'll sound dense for saying this, but I can't tell if this is a comment or a response poem to thenewgreen's, because it has no line breaks but it does have a rhyme and cadence, accidental or not. Which is hilarious if it is meant as a plain old comment. I wonder how she would have behaved
in my back seat. I regret
not being able to try. Although I would tell you to consider rephrasing the second stanza so it sounded a little less inappropriate to say about a dog, haha.I saw a pregnant pitbull jog
down the highway median
in the rain the other day.
Before I realized what had happened,
I was moving too far past,
and it was headed the other way.
That's just awesome. I actually enjoyed reading it that way. I agree that the last stanza is a bit "dirty".
Totally within the parameters of the assignment. When I've used this assignment in writing workshops, the responses are usually about life-changing, identity-defining actions; however (mk, note semi-colon!), the knowing-what-I-had-to-do events that most quickly come to mind for me are more of the dog-bait variety. When it comes to life-changing actions, I usually know what I have to do long, long before I actually do it. I feel like Brutus before murdering Caesar where he said:
Between the acting of a dreadful thing
And the first motion, all the interim is
Like a phantasma or a hideous dream.
(Julius Caesar, Act 2, Scene 1, 65-67)
Thx, tng, for giving the snowball a push.