YOU AND AUNTIE'S DOG.
You took the dog for a walk
across the grass out of your
auntie’s sight and wandered
about the barracks looking
through window by standing
on steps or pulling yourself
up by fingertips on windowsills
peering through the windows
spying on the regiment for
some inward game and the
dog sat watching you wagging
its tail its pink tongue hanging
out in the hot summer weather
and once you and the dog crawled
under a gate and you pulled
yourself up by the fingertips
on a windowsill and saw through
an open window soldiers
sitting at desks before a large
blackboard being talked to by
a NCO and who spotting you
bellowed out WHO THE FUCK'S
THAT! and you jumped down
and ran the dog beating you to
the gate and under as you being
less agile got stuck as the NCO
came running up and pulled you
out and up and said Right Sonny
I suggest you get yourself back
to barracks before I tell your
parents what a bad lad you've
been and then he opened the gate
and off you ran the dog running
beside you its tongue out in a self
satisfied way and you thinking what
a bad end to a could have been fun day.
