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Hair of the Dog

Distilled spirits
Calm familiar
It’s that first bite

Clear cold and tight

Hair of the dog that bit me
Always pictured that literally, visually

Unhappy Beast
With claws
Tamped down for cause
She detests
She protests
Hurls invective inventive insults
Incompetence abounds
Forced to attend the Stupid Olympics
Wherein everybody loses
When everybody wins, she is not wrong

But is she me?


Written in 2017   Copyright © Catherine G. Tripp

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  • Home
  • About
  • Poems
    • Binary Shield © 2014
    • China Doll © 1974
    • City Sounds © 1982
    • Code Vision © 2014
    • HAIKU COLLECTION © 1976, 2016
    • Hair of the Dog © 2017
    • I Just Endure © 2014
    • Indian Flower © 1975
    • It's just there © 2017
    • Last Easter When I Saw Him © 1976
    • Lines on a Tiburon Ferry 2002
    • Listening to Amy © 2017
    • Mendocino in Bloom © 1982
    • Mine © 1977
    • Reflections in a Photograph © 1976
    • Road Musings © 1982
    • Starving Abroad © 1978
    • Taipei Day © 1979
    • The City © 1982
    • The Pain is Constant © 2013
  • Loan Goddess Wisdom
    • The REAL reasons for 2008 Meltdown
  • Short Stories
    • SOMA VAMP
    • Banking Stardom
    • Her Name Was Tera
    • Lake Sebring
    • The Making of an Empress
  • M. E. Pleasant
  • Performances
  • Diatribes and Deathless Prose