Cry "Havoc!" and Let Slip the Dogs of Joe! - doggerel with a real dog

 

Lawrence Hall

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Cry “Havoc!” and Let Slip the Dogs of Joe!

 

That’s it. I’m not visiting the White House

Presidential dogs that bite are just too much

(If only Joe kept rabbits, or even a mouse)

I fear they’d find me toothsome to their touch

 

I wish I could attend a poetry reading

Or see Marine One land on the White House lawn

But I don’t want to be the lunch the dogs are eating

Or their contains-real-meat dog chewy-bone

 

I’m not visiting the White House, okay?

(And I haven’t been invited anyway)