DOGGIE STYLE,
Around The World

I’ve read that
around the world
the bark of a dog
is different then the
bow-wow American dogs.

In fact, it has been reported
the sound a dog makes is
"bup-bup" in Catalan,
"wang-wang" in Mandarin Chinese,
"vov-vov" in Danish,
"woef" in Dutch,

"ouah-ouah" in French,
"bhõ-bhõ" in Hindi,
"gong-gong" in Indonesian,
and "hoang-hoang" in Thai.

And to this I think,
they got some pretty weird dogs
in the rest of the world.

BLOCK HEAD



Some ancient cultures
believed that old trees
held the memories
of all things past.

In the post modern age
people store everything
in their computers.

That’s why
I back everything up
On my hard drive,
in case they cut down
the trees.

SOULAR


A new radar detector
that has recently been invented
can not only detect rainbows

as was its original intention

but also has the unexpected
yet astonishing power
of seeing people’s souls.

While meteorologists
and weather enthusiasts
are all aglow
about this innovation,

blithely code-named Soular,

civic and church authorities
are looking leerily
at this new invention.

Church Officials,
are distressed about meteorologists
meddling in matters
previously the domain
of people of the cloth,

not to mention
it being somewhat unethical
to have lay-people
voyeuristically gawking
into a person’s soul.

The Surgeon General
has also become involved
and recommended against
government approval.
Her rationale:
The soul has never before
been considered
a bodily part
and is therefore beyond
their scope of investigation.

In addition,
The Civil Liberties Union
has intervened
and asked for a court injunction
to put a stop
to test trials of this new mechanism.

Under the Fourth Amendment
of the Constitution
this is considered
an invasion of personal privacy.
The Constitution holds it
illegal to search
a person’s house,
and the body being a “temple”
makes it unlawful
to peer into a person’s
most vital essence.