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[Darren Wershler-Henry had the brilliant idea of writing s series of poems using only the words that his dog understands. I don't have a dog myself, but a friend of mine recently wrote to me about his mother's dog, who for some reason responds strongly to the phrase "il conformista," which is the name of the famous Bertolucci film (starring the wonderful Dominique Sanda). He also, unwittingly in his email, told me a few other words that the dog understands, and of course I couldn't help translating one of the Pisan Cantos into dog language. This is the first of what I imagine to be a growing anthology of poems based on the vocabulary of dogs... I'd love to read others.]
Dog Canto
Outside... il conformista
walk milkbone
roll-over
il conformista
Sit! sit!
il conformista
Paw! paw!
il conformista
roll-over il conformista...
Good doggy.
Good good doggy.
Fidelius.