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Pontius Pilate and His Dog
When a
man’s worked all day in signing off
On
having any number of his fellow men
Imprisoned,
flogged, branded, imprisoned, or chained
He’s
happy to come home to his good ol’ dog
The
master whistles, his happy dog barks
Man
and beast in happy concord meet
Playfully
tussling in their mutual love
While
the servants cringe and cower in fear
What
difference if a man executes his brother
As
long as he and his dog have each other?
The curious idea of Pontius Pilate having a dog to love is in
Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita, p. 311 in the Penguin edition. The
paragraph is almost as touching as Senator Vest’s courtroom speech, “Tribute to
the Dog.”
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