What If Teacup Doggies Are Secretly Geniuses Poem by Mary Angela Douglas

what if teacup doggies are secretly geniuses

and also with halos too so that out of love

they pretend to be happy when

we throw the munchkin ball for them, the tiny chew toy

and snap to in cute puppy yips and yaps

when put in the baby choo choo

when really they can speak 25 languages

and decode emissions from Mars

while you are decorating them with frou frou

or watching them do impressions of the

children's toys

and plead for crumbs at the dining room table

especially at Sunday chicken dinner

with the pink bib tied around their almost necks

becoming somehow in the moment even fluffier

and then they get carried outside to the yard and

ruff ruff to the neighbor's dog

in quadratic equations.

and pftt with the kitty cats about

String Theory or why Oppenheimer was wrong

then patter back inside and roll their teddy bear eyes

ever so slightly at the PBS Special

on humans still teaching basic vocab to the dolphins.

mary angela douglas 27 may 2020; rev.28 may 2020