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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=460841" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>0409 The Postman and the Dog, or Plato's Fido</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=460841" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">There has to be a reason: <br>dogs bite postmen.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=460841" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">It's not just that they jump up the sofa to the window<br>and bark excitedly even when the postman's invisible down the street; <br>that's smart; but they don't stop at that. For those of us<br>who still have letterboxes in our front doors, <br>every one's a tasty finger-trap...and open the front door<br>to take the parcel - and all hell breaks loose.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=460841" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">You'd think that they'd catch on, that their owners<br>mostly like to have a dropp each day - even though<br>its largely bumf (and you can't even use it for that) : <br>it's not bills every day; no, postie's not our enemy<br>that dogs defend us from; or do they pick up thrilling smells<br>even before he's at noselength, of rival canines<br>all along his round? Can't the perfume industry dream up<br>a body-spray for postmen to please the canine race? <br>A kinda Mini Factor Inc., 'Make-Up To the Curs'...</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=460841" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">I wonder if the answer's in the Hindu mould: <br>that this life is the sweet-sour fruit<br>of last lives' actions; even our living form: </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=460841" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Was the postman with the hang-dog expression<br>who won't look me in the eye - as if<br>we both remember some shared former life -<br>is he on the up: his last life, noble, faithful, obedient dog<br>with just one fatal flaw: he couldn't resist a juicy mouthful<br>of postman's ankle? <br>So now he's born - eternal justice so decreed -<br>a postman... tooth for a tooth...but carrying in consciousness<br>a hang-dog memory of that guilt? </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=460841" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Or (since it's said the number of created animal souls<br>stays constant) is he on transmigration's down escalator -<br>a human failure as a postman, who, out of public gaze, <br>aims a shrewd and secret kick at Fido... and<br>with that hang-dog expression....<br>yes, you guessed it.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=460841" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">I wonder if I should mention this to him?</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><a href="http://poems.citatepedia.com/">poem</a> by <strong><a rel="author" href="http://authors.citatepedia.com/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a></strong></div>