Dodds, Benjamin

Pig

1. There’s a pig in the grass
2. and bro-ken bricks
3. and caked pads of saw-dust
4. piled up behind the gun club’s rifle range.
5. It’s only slightly buried beneath it all.
6.  
7. The punk-rock hair-cut of sub-ver-sive green
8. is health-ier than any lawn in town,
9. and the white smil-ing teeth,
10. top set only–the lower ones lie in soil,
11. could sell Col-gate on TV.
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13. After its rest, it will stand
14. and shake the turf
15. and build-ing rub-ble
16. from its lightly downed back
17. and prance down the mound
18. on pretty, pointed trotters
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20. or so I tell my nephew
21. who reaches to prod
22. the bal-loon of belly
23. with a bent, spent weld-ing rod.