Here's something you might be interested in.
Ask a Hipster — Advice you didn't know you needed
Big Screen — Movie commentary
Blurt — Music's inside track
Booze News — San Diego spirits
Classical Music — Immortal beauty
Classifieds — Free and easy
Cover Stories — Front-page features
Drinks All Around — Bartenders' drink recipes
Excerpts — Literary and spiritual excerpts
Feast! — Food & drink reviews
Feature Stories — Local news & stories
Fishing Report — What’s getting hooked from ship and shore
From the Archives — Spotlight on the past
Golden Dreams — Talk of the town
The Gonzo Report — Making the musical scene, or at least reporting from it
Letters — Our inbox
Movies@Home — Local movie buffs share favorites
Movie Reviews — Our critics' picks and pans
Musician Interviews — Up close with local artists
Neighborhood News from Stringers — Hyperlocal news
News Ticker — News & politics
Obermeyer — San Diego politics illustrated
Outdoors — Weekly changes in flora and fauna
Overheard in San Diego — Eavesdropping illustrated
Poetry — The old and the new
Reader Travel — Travel section built by travelers
Reading — The hunt for intellectuals
Roam-O-Rama — SoCal's best hiking/biking trails
San Diego Beer — Inside San Diego suds
SD on the QT — Almost factual news
Sheep and Goats — Places of worship
Special Issues — The best of
Street Style — San Diego streets have style
Surf Diego — Real stories from those braving the waves
Theater — On stage in San Diego this week
Tin Fork — Silver spoon alternative
Under the Radar — Matt Potter's undercover work
Unforgettable — Long-ago San Diego
Unreal Estate — San Diego's priciest pads
Your Week — Daily event picks
Why They Love Us
- Vanna, 1987?–1995
- Dogs love us uncomplainingly because
- They see us in a way we never do.
- They don’t have sense enough to see our flaws
- The way we fear our lovers’ fangs and claws.
- Blondi loved Hitler; Checkers, Nixon too.
- They love us uncomplainingly because
- When swatted with the news for muddy paws
- Or chewing on that Bruno Magli shoe
- They don’t have sense enough to see our flaws.
- We live by common sense and logic’s laws;
- With dogs, forget it. Even if they knew
- They love us uncomplainingly because
- They’re idiots, they still won’t drop their jaws
- And say, “Duh, you were mean to me. We’re through.”
- They don’t have sense enough to see our flaws.
- Thank god for that. A big round of applause
- For what can sniff your ass and still love you.
- Dogs love us uncomplainingly because
- They don’t have sense enough to see our flaws.
R.S. Gwynn is a master of traditional poetic forms whose poetry has been characterized as “Bleakly serious and wickedly humorous.” The poet X. J. Kennedy has called Gwynn “A wonderful satirist, a master translator, a keen observer of ironies.” Gwynn is a professor at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas. His new collection, Dogwatch, was published earlier this year by Measure Press. “Why They Love Us” is a villanelle from his collection No Word of Farewell: Selected Poems 1970–2000, published by Story Line Press. The poem is reprinted by permission.
Here's something you might be interested in.
Why They Love Us
Why They Love Us
- Vanna, 1987?–1995
- Dogs love us uncomplainingly because
- They see us in a way we never do.
- They don’t have sense enough to see our flaws
- The way we fear our lovers’ fangs and claws.
- Blondi loved Hitler; Checkers, Nixon too.
- They love us uncomplainingly because
- When swatted with the news for muddy paws
- Or chewing on that Bruno Magli shoe
- They don’t have sense enough to see our flaws.
- We live by common sense and logic’s laws;
- With dogs, forget it. Even if they knew
- They love us uncomplainingly because
- They’re idiots, they still won’t drop their jaws
- And say, “Duh, you were mean to me. We’re through.”
- They don’t have sense enough to see our flaws.
- Thank god for that. A big round of applause
- For what can sniff your ass and still love you.
- Dogs love us uncomplainingly because
- They don’t have sense enough to see our flaws.
R.S. Gwynn is a master of traditional poetic forms whose poetry has been characterized as “Bleakly serious and wickedly humorous.” The poet X. J. Kennedy has called Gwynn “A wonderful satirist, a master translator, a keen observer of ironies.” Gwynn is a professor at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas. His new collection, Dogwatch, was published earlier this year by Measure Press. “Why They Love Us” is a villanelle from his collection No Word of Farewell: Selected Poems 1970–2000, published by Story Line Press. The poem is reprinted by permission.
Comments