Happiness - Katherine Hastings

[Larry Robinson]

Happiness

         after the fires

 

 

We’ll find it again

 

Perhaps not as much

as the dog in Scotland

who wagged his tail so hard

 

so often

it had to be 

amputated

 

Not that happy.

But

Okay happy.

 

After two years in a pound          

he found a home.

It will take at least that long

 

for some in Sonoma County

and when they do

we’ll wag our behinds

 

like Buster

though I don’t care what they say

there’s no such thing

 

as a forever home.

 

		- Katherine Hastings
 
Note:  Buster, named “the happiest dog in Scotland” is a Staffordshire Bull Terrier who had to have his tail amputated due to excessive wagging.  Reported in the San Francisco Chronicle on November 13, 2017


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