'The dog's a silly thing'

The dog's a silly thing.
It eat shit and shit bricks.
It do what it told - never more.
It wait like a patient thing 
For the master, 
Long since gone.
It wait and it wait on those who'll come.
Or so it think.

The dog is loyal.
It loyal to almost many; though not all.
Tell it, “Fetch!”
And it do fetch.
Tell it, “Beg!”
And it do too.
But tell it, “Speak!”
And it do nothing.

Dogs's a funny thing.
Unlike the selfish cats that plot the destruction 
Of the not-so nimble little brown mouses.
They know nowt of cats' horrid habit.

If dog be man’s best friend, 
Then man be dog’s best friend.
If that man’s got second-best friend, 
Then him too be the dog’s second-best friend.
And so on to infirmity.

Dogs? Don’t we love them?
Yes we do so.
Give them a bone and they’re forever friends… 
Or nearly so.

Dog don’t think themselves into dark holes.
They take the moment as it be.
Not as something before the next thing.
Dogs just be.
And that’s the way I’d like to be -
Snug in a little world 
That’s as small as the dog’s brain is tiny, too,
And very small.