To a Forgotten Dog

                        To a Forgotten Dog

Perhaps you didn't notice my my faux pas, dear Coggie!

hmm... I wonder if YOU even recall ME? 

can you ever HEAR me from that final place of doggies?

In my mind you're chasing spirit cats there -only stopping for a doggie pee! 

(on some celestial hydrant, or upon a heavenly tree!)

Did you notice that I called you 'Mugsy' on the photograph I posted?

'Twas the latter (your successor) whose forgotten name occurred to me,

Mugsy too, you see, is long since ghosted,

Have you become each other's BFF? leaving pungent 'notes' upon the trees?

but I'm wandering here, dear Coggie, 

an apology was my intent:

My peccadillo was conflating doggies,

Mea culpa, I repent.

  

   -jorge999

12-22-12, was my late dad's ninety-eighth birthday anniversary and, to honor him, I posted some old family photos on FB. The one mentioned in the poem was taken when I was four or five.

In it, along with my parents and sibs, was a dog I mistakenly called 'Mugsy'. My older sister who was ten at the time, happily corrected me and told me about a an earlier dog, "Goggie."