My Tiny Poem “Saturday Adoption Event at the Local Shelter”

SATURDAY ADOPTION EVENT AT THE LOCAL SHELTER 

Poor little Toby.
An abandoned 
Chihuahua. Eight
years old. Just 
another senior.
Unwanted. “He’s 
mine,” I say.
And now he is.

(First published in “The Alien Buddha’s Microdoses.”)

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