My dog is possessed.<\/p>\n
It’s HIS bone.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
He now sits outside, day and night<\/p>\n
one eye closed, one eye open<\/p>\n
his prized possession in reach.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
For him<\/p>\n
possession is 100% of the law.<\/p>\n
Walking near<\/p>\n
THE bone<\/p>\n
gets you a low, low<\/p>\n
groooooooowl<\/p>\n
“It’s mine”!, he says.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
He’d make a good capitalist.<\/p>\n
Just imagine if he had an army!<\/p>\n
So many more bones, all his!<\/p>\n
How many more bones of his victims<\/p>\n
piled up<\/p>\n
cherished and possessed<\/p>\n
day and night<\/p>\n
while all the other dogs<\/p>\n
in the neighborhood<\/p>\n
wet, wanting, outside<\/p>\n
dream of more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
My dog is possessed. It’s HIS bone. He now sits outside, day and night one eye closed, one eye open his prized possession in reach. For him possession is 100% of the law. Walking near THE bone gets you a low, low groooooooowl “It’s mine”!, he says. He’d make a good capitalist. … Continue reading Possession<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[41],"class_list":["post-924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-more-poems","category-poetry","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ddeubel.me\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ddeubel.me\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ddeubel.me\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ddeubel.me\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ddeubel.me\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ddeubel.me\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":925,"href":"https:\/\/ddeubel.me\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924\/revisions\/925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ddeubel.me\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ddeubel.me\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ddeubel.me\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}