This poem is taken from PN Review 12, Volume 6 Number 4, March - April 1980.
Woden Dog
Wot doth woden dog
Por dog drageth plow
Thing odd dog not
Much good plow drager
But por dog drageth
All same plow
More come jellifish
Sting him woden dog
Jellifish in air now
Other odd thing
A speeking maner come
Round back to trooth
So doth dog plow
Plant seed of tree
Por dog life short
Woden dog long hope
Woden dog keep stung
Jellifish all round back
Dog hope tree grow
Much tree grow soon
Dog want find tree
Find releaf releaf
Bus drifer pleez
Make a smoth start
If not woden dog fall over
Bus drifer stop graduel
If not woden
Dog hit deck
Pleez bus drifer
Tern corner sofly
Woden dog cant hold on
You no he cant sit
Propper
You no he cant holtite
Forgoet how to life has he
Lest thing nock him sensles
All you no
Woden dog smoth graduel
Woden dog sofly he scare think
You forgoet how to drife
Jakit off jus warin sox like mean you
Woden dog reed times ever doggone day
Nites watchin his toob wow
Haffin the noose hapn
Wow fokes I tel you
Woden dog lap up noose
Woden dog bominate seecrit he reely do
Noose noose he bark runnin down street
Galumfin baknforth to his malebocks
He wannit so bad
He wannit to go
Like chocklit maltn ketchup
Hole globe pakitchn pree paredn paid fur
Sitn in his noose baskit
No seecrit make woden dog
Bust out in flour one mawnin
Lookit soaps he buy woden dogfood
Killins toon that po looshn stuf
Brung home in his teeth
Come days wen he skratchn say
Mite try killin sumwun to make noose of me
Paps if I make noose off him
He dont done do it?
Woden dog howcom you loss
Yor own seecrit eye sunshine
Woden dog howsit taist that wodendogfood
Whars met kemel dog
Ever see carner wok a mile
Smokin up a kernel ever see war stop
Juscos you lookin?
Jeez fokes jus thort
If bad stuf stop no more noose fur woden dog
Wot then ole flee bit dog
You see nuddin to lookat
You jus sit theren cry
Whodat
Striden backnforth in orifice
Who dat
Givin ordures
Whodat maken long biznis calls
Eatin long biznis bananas
He look horty
My whodat planifikting plitical fouture
Watchout
Here he come zoom by
Zoom silva jet clatter copta
Weekend in Toekyoe?
Meetin Younited Nayshun?
Whodat now
Widda dame in a yot wearin captin hat
Crakin lobsta
My my
Woden dog thats who
Woden dog how smart you done got
Hard inside
Woden dog
Woden dog gon
Sniff aroun for mudder
Mudder soft inside
Woden dog dig
Woden dog swetpant
Nuddin come up
No mudder
Dipressed woden dog
Dog shrink gifm pill
How that now help
Dog body keep movin
But inside he nut
No mudder inside
No soft strong mudder
Nuddin in world
Woden dog size
Howls too purty offen
In his dog house dum
So small he feel
Stinkin wikid woden
Yes derm dawg
Urmpteen snarls
Make nuddin
No bedder
Yew always countin
Countin crazy dawg
You mean
See me through glass
Derm yew lukn so glum
Like eny doods nuddin
Yew like like yew
Say dancein shit
Call yewsell a dawg
I aint buyin
Yew aint no morna
Cardbord ratlsnaik
Yew mean
Snarlin always makin
Fuss yew bossy think
Me mor stoopidn yew
Maybe too
But I countin
The timesnile git yew
wunofem
Woden dog keep stil
So you can feel it
Movin
Rounanroun whirlin world
Why you keep with it
Is that reel
Woden dog
Keep stil so you
Can feel it movin
Hey now
Hoo done got hide
Inside you innerlekshuls
Meckin
Yore gin
Roll I say shuns
Hooz
Moovin yoohoo
all ways tokkin
Wokkin long
Rode like you wuz
Uh ginrollized creekin
Rekkernize hoo
He be my my if it aint are
Ole solom fren dubble you dee
Woden dog sittin
On the backstares
Sittin in the dark
Breathin a bit
What's this listen
Breathin
Laff
Woden dog
That's it
Laffin on the backstares
Thems wavesnwaves
Them cool backstares
Help dog floatin
Low float high
Not let waves go so
You seem zikazak
Doan it hurt some
Hey woden dog
Not let the laff hole up
In woden dog box
Listen breathin just so
Now no more done hurt
Wyso suddn everbody
Rite on walls
FREE WODEN DOG
Anifs time
Like I newer got
Inclose free
Woden
Dog piksher?
Spose no place else
To rite
Silva smoak of pine
Burn chill
Woden dog shivver
Owl not heard
Lightslice fix to floor
Think dead
Woden dog like ice
In his box owl not heard
Owl hoot rainbow
Out of owl eyes
Owl hoot rainbow wonder
Dog not see dog bark at ghost
Owl not heard
Dog munch heap white aple
Not feel snow as owl bountie
Not smell snow rainbow
Woden dog eat heap
Aple up
Pip corn all cold aple meat
Not see owl
Not see some owl eyes
Not hear
How pips look sound yum yum
Crunch owl eyes aple up
Dog wine in boxn stay putn scoff
Woden dog alltime scoff
Woden dog shut in wod
Not smell sweet pine
Woden dog not smell wind song
Burn swingin low
Swingin in pine wod
Owl not hoot fur him in pine log
Owl not hear in dog box
He woden dog
Snow owl hoot that rainbow now
Now hootn touch dog heart
This poem is taken from PN Review 12, Volume 6 Number 4, March - April 1980.
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