A Labradoodle
at Durdle Dor
spoke, ‘Abracadabra!’
then spoke no more.
.
A small Chihuahua
who saw this feat,
also spoke the once,
‘I want food – to eat!’
.
And all the dogs
who were there that day,
had something of nothing
of which to say.
.
And so was heard
(so the stories tell)
a thousand dog-phrases,
before Midnight’s toll bell.
Graeme Sandford 