Twiggy Rope



Scraggly Hairless Tail lumbers across the straw. 

Nose rooting for rodents, mud on paw.

'Tis a shame to see symbolic tail

reduced to twiggy rope.

Parasite or accident

perhaps? Down

down the slope.

With morsel,

I hope.

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