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“Country Fair” by Charles Simic 🇷🇸🇺🇸 (9 May 1938 – 9 Jan 2023)
If you didn’t see the six-legged dog,
It doesn’t matter.
We did, and he mostly lay in the corner.
As for the extra legs,
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One got used to them quickly
And thought of other things.
Like, what a cold, dark night
To be out at the fair.
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Then the keeper threw a stick
And the dog went after it
On four legs, the other two flapping behind,
Which made one girl shriek with laughter.
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She was drunk and so was the man
Who kept kissing her neck.
The dog got the stick and looked back at us.
And that was the whole show.