COLOR CHALLENGE: MONDAY RED

I.

The barking dog
So eager to startle

Assuming there is such
A thing as territory

One foot tresspasses
Four legs wander

It is just humans moving across
Earth’s bedding

The children sneak through
The neighbor’s yard

The neighbor, grey and old,
Doesn’t try

The young neighbor musters the strength
To yell until he doesn’t see anybody

They teach us to ask
When speaking of things

So painful one tends
To look away

So I ask of you
May I continue?

Or would you rather
I change subjects?

II.

I took a break from wine for a time
It took a break from me

And stopped knocking on my lips

It travelled from a cellar
Just beyond the sea

And now is stored on tounges

Its buzz squats my flats
As doesn’t look back

Yards couldn’t contain this party

It comes and knows
Like a philosophy club

It still has a weakness for glassware

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