There I was, in the pet shop window<\/p>\n
a bright little button<\/p>\n
but a bit forlorn<\/p>\n
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I don’t like these places<\/p>\n
and some of the faces<\/p>\n
that look in and see me<\/p>\n
I guess I am torn<\/p>\n
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I would like a young girl<\/p>\n
to come and look after me<\/p>\n
take me for walks<\/p>\n
in the woods maybe we<\/p>\n
could enjoy each other<\/p>\n
and if she had a brother<\/p>\n
that would be truthfully<\/p>\n
really lovely<\/p>\n
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then one day when I was<\/p>\n
dozing there \u00a0quietly<\/p>\n
where was the little girl<\/p>\n
in came this gal<\/p>\n
a blonde not so little<\/p>\n
but she said she’d like to<\/p>\n
take me to her home<\/p>\n
so a new pal<\/p>\n
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you know what its like<\/p>\n
a dog yea like me<\/p>\n
to be in a pet shop<\/p>\n
where people can see<\/p>\n
everything really no place to hide<\/p>\n
no privacy at all<\/p>\n
and freedom denied<\/p>\n
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and I don’t like the sawdust<\/p>\n
or the shredded paper<\/p>\n
its gets on my fur<\/p>\n
its a right old caper<\/p>\n
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so to have the chance<\/p>\n
to get out of this place<\/p>\n
and go home with somebody<\/p>\n
who has a nice face<\/p>\n
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seemed a godsend and I was<\/p>\n
ready to be<\/p>\n
transported to paradise<\/p>\n
yea, a basket case me<\/p>\n
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she lived in a house<\/p>\n
on maybe 3 floors<\/p>\n
she was a strange one<\/p>\n
she liked to lock doors<\/p>\n
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every door locked<\/p>\n
the place was so dark<\/p>\n
but I noticed we were<\/p>\n
quite near to a park<\/p>\n
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so that looked quite promising<\/p>\n
but then I knew<\/p>\n
she wasn’t quite right<\/p>\n
in what she did do<\/p>\n
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she forgot to feed me<\/p>\n
and no water down<\/p>\n
she’d kick me just kick me<\/p>\n
in her dressing gown<\/p>\n
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she’d swear at me all the time<\/p>\n
and she would throw<\/p>\n
anything at me<\/p>\n
and I’d never go<\/p>\n
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out,<\/p>\n
it was prison<\/p>\n
just at her place<\/p>\n
reality proves<\/p>\n
just what a disgrace<\/p>\n
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she was<\/p>\n
all dolled up with her make up<\/p>\n
and hair<\/p>\n
but leaving her heart<\/p>\n
on the dresser somewhere<\/p>\n
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then it just \u00a0happen<\/p>\n
one saturday night<\/p>\n
she had been drinking<\/p>\n
and did invite<\/p>\n
a bloke who was real weird<\/p>\n
and ugly as sin<\/p>\n
and when they both argued<\/p>\n
my god what a din<\/p>\n
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I got out of their way<\/p>\n
and hid in the hall<\/p>\n
but she came and found me<\/p>\n
and threw me at the wall<\/p>\n
the walls made of brick<\/p>\n
and I realized she<\/p>\n
had broken the skin on my back<\/p>\n
tragically<\/p>\n
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they laughed as I dragged myself off<\/p>\n
in much pain<\/p>\n
and she came up and kicked me again and again<\/p>\n
why was this happening<\/p>\n
what had I done<\/p>\n
was it a past life<\/p>\n
had I been on the run<\/p>\n
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was I really awful<\/p>\n
perhaps a bad stray<\/p>\n
and this was just karma<\/p>\n
getting its way<\/p>\n
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I went down the hall<\/p>\n
and hid in a box<\/p>\n
with brushes and shoes<\/p>\n
and a pair of her socks<\/p>\n
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and I lay there and sobbed<\/p>\n
for a few hours until<\/p>\n
I nodded off thinking<\/p>\n
if I could only kill<\/p>\n
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that bitch somehow<\/p>\n
for already she’d shown<\/p>\n
no care towards me<\/p>\n
and I just felt alone<\/p>\n
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that night I had fever<\/p>\n
my bones were on fire<\/p>\n
the next day<\/p>\n
I daren’t walk<\/p>\n
the pain was dire<\/p>\n
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she never fed me<\/p>\n
stayed in her bed<\/p>\n
all I could wish for<\/p>\n
was that she was dead<\/p>\n
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but later she got up<\/p>\n
and opened the door<\/p>\n
she looked like a rat<\/p>\n
she was hard to ignore<\/p>\n
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right she said Charlotte<\/p>\n
gonna teach you to fly<\/p>\n
first I will beat you up\u00a0until you cry<\/span><\/p>\n then in a plastic bag<\/p>\n tied up with string<\/p>\n out of the window<\/p>\n I’m going to sling<\/p>\n <\/p>\n you, she then shouted<\/p>\n yes out you go<\/p>\n fly off to somewhere<\/p>\n let the wind blow<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n you anywhere else<\/p>\n I am \u00a0so sick of you<\/p>\n and she tossed me out<\/p>\n out into the blue<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I fell like a stone onto my head<\/p>\n all I could see then<\/p>\n was the colour red<\/p>\n and then nothing else<\/p>\n for as blind as a bat<\/p>\n and really not knowing \u00a0then where I was at<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n in so much pain<\/p>\n what a miserable sod<\/p>\n I cried aloud ,to the only sweet god<\/p>\n I knew \u00a0Anubis<\/p>\n asking that he<\/p>\n bring one of the angels<\/p>\n to come and help me<\/p>\n <\/p>\n someone turned up and found me<\/p>\n and I<\/p>\n am being re-homed<\/p>\n with a brilliant old guy<\/p>\n <\/p>\n he has a nice voice<\/p>\n but as I say I am blind<\/p>\n all I want is a place now<\/p>\n where I can unwind<\/p>\n <\/p>\n hope he has a niece maybe<\/p>\n who will come \u00a0and play<\/p>\n and I can live happily<\/p>\n now come what may<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There I was, in the pet shop window a bright little button but a bit forlorn I don’t like these places and some of the faces that look in and see me I guess I am torn … Continue reading