Ask Any Dog

By Marilyn Neulieb

Cement is cool

Ask any dog

Napping at will

Just lying around

“Summer’s too hot

Leave me alone.

I’m comfy here.

Let me be.’

“Time for dinner

I get up

I stretch out

I mosey over

I fill up

I wander back”

People, people, people

Always rushing, rushing

Spinning, spinning, spinning

They’ll never understand.

Take the time

Smell the flowers”

Cement is cool

Ask any dog

Marilyn Neulieb lives in the North Country and has homesteaded for 40 years. She is an award-winning writer of the North Country Writing Contest. Her accolades include her current poetry column in the weekly Thousand Island Sun plus numerous works accepted by Green Mountain Trading Post, Mother Earth News, Ideals, Alternative Living, Home Power and Fourth Coast Entertainment. Marilyn is co-founder of Bottom Line Writers. She taught biology in high school and collage. She hones her writing while hiking the woodland trails.