Retrieving Labrador Days, dog tales in prose and verse

RETRIEVING LABRADOR DAYS
dog tales in prose and verse

Stories about each of his three Labrador retrievers and some of the other dogs and people whose lives they touched.

By Anthony Buccino

Shaggy dogs, mutts, mongrels, three Labrador retrieves and a pet rabbit inspire the stories and poems in this collection. Pets of one kind or another have share the past six decades of the author's life, and here are some stories that will make you laugh out loud, and others that remind you of escapades and exasperation you've been through with your own pets. 

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WILD THINGS

WILD THINGS

Don’t hurt the wild things
we know how much you hurt inside
and don’t be cruel to your pets
we know how bitterness
eats you inside
look around you, pal
everything sucks
and the best thing
about being down so far
is the only place you got
to go from here is up
you got the world by the balls
it’s something you forgot
on your way down

-- Copyright © 2010 by Anthony Buccino, all rights reserved.
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A Poem A Day - Anthony Buccino

The verse posted in this blog are from the collections listed below and other uncollected or published here for the first time. 

Enjoy, comment, and don't forget to tell them where you found it!

Verse Collections

CANNED - Booted, bumped, down-sized, fired, forced out, hated, hired, jobless, laid off, let go, out of work, out-sourced, pink-slipped, terminated, sacked, unemployed

SIXTEEN INCHES ON CENTER

AMERICAN BOY: PUSHING SIXTY

RETRIEVING LABRADOR DAYS 

VOICES ON THE BUS train, subway, sidewalk and in my head

ONE MORNING IN JERSEY CITY

Buccino's Verse Has Appeared In:

Paterson Literary Review, U.S. 1 Worksheets,  Rattlesnake Review,  Medusa's Kitchen, Voices In Italian Americana,  Edison Literary Review,  Journal of New Jersey Poets, CHEST, The Idiom, Fox Chase Review, Up & Under,  Caduceus,  South Mountain Poets Anthology, MEWS, LIPS, More Sweet Lemons, The Poem Factory, On The Quiet Side, PowWow Review, and other places, too! 
 
Anthony Buccino

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