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Uncle Dog: The Poet at 9.

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I did not want to be old Mr.
Garbage Man, but Uncle Dog, who

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rode sitting beside him.

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Uncle Dog had
always looked to me

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to be truck strong, wise-eyed,
a cur-like like Ford of a dog.

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I did not want to be Mr.
Garbage Man because all he

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had was cans to do.

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Uncle Dog sat there,
me beside him,

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emptying nothing, barely even
looking from garbage side

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to side.

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Like rich people in the back
seats of chauffeur cars,

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only shaggy in an unwagging,
tall, scrawny way.

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Uncle Dog belonged
any just where he sat,

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but old Mr. Garbage Man had
to stop at every single can.

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I thought I did not
want to be Mister.

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Everybody calls them that first.

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A dog is said dog or by name.

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I would rather be called
Rover than Mister,

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and sit like a tough, smart
mongrel beside a garbage man.

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Uncle Dog always went to places
unconcerned, without no hurry,

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independent, like some
leashless toot.  Honorable

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among scavenger
can-picking dogs,

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and with a bitch at every
other can, and meat,

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his for the barking.

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Oh, I wanted to be Uncle Dog.

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Sharp, high,
fox-eared, cur-Ford,

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truck-faced, with his
pick of the bones.

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A doing, truckman's dog
and not a simple child dog

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nor friend to man, but an
uncle traveling and to himself,

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and a bitch at every second can.

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