Dumb
       

You would think the dog,
lemon-sized brain notwithstanding,
would understand by now
that the truck with the broken muffler
passing down our street each night
is not his master's truck
and will not turn into our driveway;
the familiar key will not undress itself
in our lock.
Still, he bounds to the door
at the muffler's first faint cough.
Thus hope outfoxes reason,
the dog and I growing dumber by the week.

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from In the Home of the Famous Dead
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