dog gone

with a milk mustache and a baseball bat,
a child had stepped on the tail of a cat,
so it hissed and it clawed into his shin
as he had waited for the inning to begin.
then it scurried and it jumped onto a dog house,
so quietly the boy crept up like a mouse.
then he smashed that cat with his stick of lumber,
while under that roof a mutt did slumber,
until it awoke and began to attack-
lodging its claws and teeth into his back.
it snarled and snorted and mauled the boy.
gnawed on his head like a rubber chew toy.
it shook the poor kid like a raggedy andy,
tearing off skin like the wrapper on a candy,
'til the mailman pulled up in his jeep,
and put that viscous bitch to sleep.