* i be dog

this ya won't believe!
don't that beat all?
i never!
crystal sweet love strikes delusions of one of us
well i be dog!

don't it take the cake?
now that's somethin!
sure as i'm standin here!
night scream collision blows shards of pain everywhere
lawsamercy!

djever hear the like?
if i hadna seen it!
ain't that the damdest?
heart bleeding crimson collapses in splintered glass
howsabout that?

wonders never cease?
i hope to tell ya!
coulda knocked me over with a brick!
glory explosion of clouds flaming lavender
unfettered laughter soars on through the cumulus
fluttering blast of a half-billion ibises
sea-swallowed sun leaves the fool in his solitude
granitebrained blind man in hamfingered ignorance
clayfooted arrogant windsucking blunderer
well i be dog!

©   Ian MacLeod, 2002
Published in With Honors, 2002
All rights reserved.

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