{"id":18411,"date":"2021-08-22T05:55:12","date_gmt":"2021-08-22T12:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=18411"},"modified":"2021-08-22T05:55:12","modified_gmt":"2021-08-22T12:55:12","slug":"overnight-news-you-might-have-rhymed-dogs-doggerel-and-the-music-of-a-thriving-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/18411\/overnight-news-you-might-have-rhymed-dogs-doggerel-and-the-music-of-a-thriving-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"Overnight News: \u201cYou might have rhymed\u201d \u2013 dogs, doggerel and the music of a thriving\u00a0mind."},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cMy favorite poem? \u2018Good boy!\u2019 Recite it\u00a0again!\u201d<\/p><\/div>Shakespeare has Horatio say, “You might have rhymed,” and that reproach is never far from my mind. To live around me is to live in a world of verse: Couplets, a lot, but songs, too, written on the fly as conversation. But: No cheating: Everything rhymes, scans and makes sense \u2013 as poetry in English must.<\/p>\n

And how stupid is that? My wife might be impressed \u2013 or perhaps she just pretends to be \u2013 but it profits me truly nothing \u2013 perhaps less than nothing \u2013 to do things this way. It is pleasing to me, and that is sufficient, and I don’t (often) torment the ears of strangers. But speech is sound and sound is music and poetry \u2013 spoken or sung \u2013 is the music of a thriving mind.<\/p>\n

Let me sell it to you that way as I tell you about my poetic relationship with Miss Cleopatra Chioux, the now-eleven-month-old French Bulldog to whom I am mentor, Dutch Grandfather and valet. I can say whatever I want with dogs, and I always have. Miss Chioux is patient with me if I have to dig for a rhyme, and she has never yet mocked any club-footed trochees.<\/p>\n

Because so much of what I say at home is sung-spoken verse \u2013 aka mock-Broadway-style musical comedy \u2013 and because I am so-much focused on this ding-dang dog, it could be I’m writing a musical of my own.<\/p>\n

What’s it called?<\/p>\n

“Dogshit \u2013 a musical.” If my second hope is that there one day might be a “Dogshit on Broadway,” my first would be that you do not groan, “Not again!”<\/p>\n

Is there a plot? We had our troubles with every puppy’s evil twin \u2013 Poo Peter \u2013 but his noxious influence is easily vanquished by plastic bags deployed like disposable gloves on the hands of people who make enormous money at other times of the day. That just by itself is hugely funny to me: Children and grandchildren alone are an insane capital sink to any accountant or actuary, but policing the poop of pets \u2013 hands-on, Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cMy favorite poem? \u2018Good boy!\u2019 Recite it\u00a0again!\u201dShakespeare has Horatio say, “You might have rhymed,” and that reproach is never far from my mind. To live around me is to live in a world of verse: Couplets, a lot, but songs, too, written on the fly as conversation. But: No cheating: Everything rhymes, scans and makes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[29,26,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-group-therapy","category-lending","category-marketing","category-real-estate","no-featured-image"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":309,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/309\/riffing-on-poetry\/","url_meta":{"origin":18411,"position":0},"title":"Riffing on poetry . . .","author":"Greg Swann","date":"September 9, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"I wrote this as a speech many years ago. 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