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The Eulogy

Published by Rhetorical Redhead on November 15, 2014

“The Eulogy”…a letter to my 14-year-old coonhound puppy to whom I have to say goodbye tomorrow. Not really poetry…but every word is from the very depths of my mourning soul. And I know I’m not the only one to lament and weep over the loss of a beloved dog. (Signed and postdated for tomorrow as well, because I already know I won’t be able to do so after the fact.) This has been the hardest week of my life…I still stand by my belief that it is more difficult to lose a pet than it is to lose a person.…

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Life & Death

Published by Rhetorical Redhead on November 11, 2014

What do you do when your mama calls you to say your puppy is not doing well and that it might be “time”? You drive over, play with the dogs and give copious amounts of love, tuck them into bed, then console each other over tea and brownies and typewriter *dings* and stories of youth and old age and living and dying. It never gets easier with our pets, does it? I think it’s harder to lose a pup than it is to lose a person. It’s the quiet way that they live and die and leave their pawprints on…

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Daily Haiku #11

Published by Rhetorical Redhead on April 23, 2014

  I’ll never be accustomed to the realities of pet ownership, no matter how many times I experience it. For Buford, my Boo Boo, I am not ready for you to leave me. Only yesterday I was putting you through puppy classes. Where has the time gone? Long ago I was your elder, but now the roles have reversed. I dread the day you’ll breathe your last;  I already miss you.    

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