Friends of Dormont Pool
DOGGY DIP
Each year in our town,
after the public pool
has had its last sad day of summer,
and the umbrellas have been folded
and the gods and goddesses have come down
from the lifeguard chairs,
we hold the annual Doggy Dip,
For once the gate of heaven,
with its NO DOGS sign, is open
to our local beagles
and boxers, our setters and spaniels,
our snooty pugs and tough,
blue-collar sheperds,
and the whoe furry cacophony
of mutts and mixes and mongrels.
Every nation has its holy days,
its resurections and atonements,
its feasts and fasts, its gloomy penitents
flogging themselves bloody
on even the nicest afternoons.
Give me the Doggy Dip any day,
the public waters churning
with happy pooches, purified and absolved
of all their doggy sins, ready
for another year of biting
the postman, peeing on the rug,
howling in the middle of the night
at something we can no longer see,
or hear, or even remember.
By: George Bilgere
From: The White Museum (Autum House Press, Pittsburgh)
Other works by George:
Haywire (Utah State University Press)
The Good Kiss (University of Akron Press)
Big Bang (Cooper Beech Press)
The Going (University of Missouri Press)
www.georgebilgere.com.
Thanks to Verizon for donating Wi-Fi wireless Internet access
in the pool area!
We also have a new sound system at the pool! No more megaphone for the Doggy Dips!
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