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A lot of dogs
the dogs offer nothing
of an intimidating bark
as I enter the empty lot
of orange soju tents
vacant behind dripping flaps
they do as they do
thinking they have
something to protect
the corner shack that is their home
a few boards of haphazard construction
bowls before them
with empty stomachs
not being satisfied
by what the drizzel doles out
to any old beggar
even to those whose mangy coat
could now care less
having already drank its fill
the one who knows
something the others don't
sits quiet and alone
eyes revealing hopeless longing
to see a better lot in life
no longer under the meager
shelter of rusty siding
his poignant stares are
unbroken by cold shivers
while the others expend
valuable energy
blindly protecting
all they are aware of
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