Leunig the dog came to the back door last night
Young and fitÂ
His muzzle no longer gray
Then I found myself at the dumpÂ
Throwing away perfectly good white lawn chairs made of plastic
I stopped and pulled them out of the dumpster
Giving them to a white-haired couple in a Cadillac
Leunig’s new family came to get him
They live forty minutes north
The dump is two thousand miles east
When they left I nearly walked into the wrong house
We had guestsÂ
But they were strangers
There was a pile of peas on the floor
That everyone kept stepping around
The children were younger
I think my dead father was there
But the alarm went off
So I can’t be sureÂ