Bliss by Harry Bliss for July 05, 2023

He wants to be stimulated, not put to sleep.

Are you sure it isn’t a squirrel alert?

“I heard a car alarm when I died…”

And now you know what he’s more interested in…

https://poets.org/poem/egyptian-tomb-emily-dickinson

But it’s the call of the wild. Must protect the pack. Drive off intruders.

BTW-Nice reading (and dreaming) environment.

What does a dog care about Emily when he’s got alarms, squirrels and cats to chase?

and emily dickinson never had a car alarm

A little Dog that wags his tail

And knows no other joy

Of such a little Dog am I

Reminded by a Boy

Who gambols all the living Day

Without an earthly cause

Because he is a little Boy

I honestly suppose —

The Cat that in the Corner dwells

Her martial Day forgot

The Mouse but a Tradition now

Of her desireless Lot

Another class remind me

Who neither please nor play

But not to make a “bit of noise”

Beseech each little Boy —

I’d rather hear Emily.

Emily Dickinson’’s poetry is a drag, a car alarm however speaks of excitement.

You can sing most Emily Dickinson to the tune of “The Yellow Rose of Texas” of the “Battle Hymn of the Republic”

Dogs have their own priorities.

He’d rather hear the bell of a car than the belle of Amherst.

And the joke is?

Sorry, not as gripping. I think that I shall never see a poem as interesting as a car alarm.

If you read Dickinson very loudly in a high falsetto, it sounds like a car alarm. The car alarm, however, comes in one flavor only.

I’ve yet to meet a dog who enjoys poetry.

I’d take Emily Dickinson over a car alarm any day. It’s funny, there were some short Dickinson poems in my grammar school readers e. g. “A Narrow Fellow in the Grass.” Later I discovered her adult appeal.

Dogs do have priorities…..

I think my dog would prefer Dickinson. She likes to be talked to and doesn’t care about anything going on outside. I can have pizza delivered right on my porch and she might, just might, pick her head up and look at the door. She also might not. She definitely ignores car alarms, finds them annoying as they will wake her up from her 14-hour naps.

“and you read your Emily Dickenson and I my Robert Frost and we note our place with bookmarkers, to measure what we lost” Paul Simon