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Personification of the Dog

Heath Brougher

“There is no such thing as no such thing,”
came fast in the wind spoken through razor-sharp teeth.
“Our world is a transient organism
in the midst of a greater cluster.
One day we’ll be mystified and less sentient than ever
and float around usefully unknowing of almost anything,”
spun a web of thought through dark red-orange eyes
shimmering within a skull bearing potent nostrils.
Forcing smile, I tried not to notice and kept on walking.
“I am nothing but what I perceive.
I am nothing more or less than a Sense,”
emitted from dog-fangs that could tear a mailman
to shreds. “There is no such thing
as what you call ‘Reality’” brushed against my ears as I looked
toward the yard and saw him propped upon a picket fence
standing on his hind legs inquisitively staring right back at me.
“Reality is nothing more than an arrangement of atoms
producing an effect just as oxygen feeds fire,”
stung my mind as I looked arrogantly away,
and continued on, not wanting to waste my time
listening to such impossibility.
And as I left I heard in the distance as his conclusion,
“There is no such thing as no such thing,
for no such thing is such a thing, in a Sense,”
slipped eloquent and barkless from his mouth.

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