AND THE SEA-DOG WAITS FOR A TREAT... (FROM SASHA HARDING'S PAINTING...)

And The Sea-dog Waits For A Treat…

(from Sasha Harding’s painting…)

When you are a large, gloating fish,

If you time it right

And when you open your mouth,

In swims a tasty, if bony and scaly dish

Of much smaller but plentiful fry,

Albeit a raw and tricky meal…

When you are a lurking, floating gull,

If you time it right

And when you open your bill,

In drop morsels, spilled from a hull

By a fisherman with a lusty beard,

Whose consummate joy can’t be concealed…

When you are the boat’s waiting dog,

You feel you have the right…

And when you open your jaws

In falls a bite, or maybe two

From the master, jaunty and true,

When from his overalls treats are finally revealed…  

Pete Ray

April 16th 2020

  

Just looked to me like food was being accepted by all mouths but the dog’s…

It’ll be fed dreckly…