Executive Privilege
Human brain Fido
Inside his chain-link fence
Joins full-moon sky concert
With Rufus, and Poochie
Down the block
On their chains,
Cock their ears
And wonder, wonder
Why the faint coyote calls,
Why a whiff of rotten elk-meat
In the garbage
Drives them wild.
From Poems of the New Old West
Copyright 2002, Jack Purcell