STREET SCENTS

                   Our little doggie, Tig,
                   has learned from Gyp, who’s big,
                   how to acquire street scents
                   by sniffing at a fence
                   or following a smell
                   of chicken bones from hell
                   or scarfing a squashed worm,
                   enough to make you squirm—
                   yet nosegation is
                   how dogs perform their biz.

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