Published on 20 February 2018; revised on 14 October 2018
Added poem to: Tiny Anthologies: Wild West Poems
- THE HET UP VET, A Poem by Alice B. Clagett, Soundtrack and Words
Dear Ones,
A sagacious, but nevertheless entirely fictional, new poem for you …
THE HET UP VET
A Poem by Alice B. Clagett
Soundtrack and Words
20 February 2018
There once was a vet
Who began to feel that
He had too many cows on his docket
I have it! He stated
Since cash flow’s abated
I’ll try out a new line of profit
And so he ablated
That work he hated.
In favor of work that . . . The hospit-
-al blues …
Mercy me! Made the news
That vet had a profit
That couldn’t be crop-ped
Stop it! … Awe but!
Them that knows it, just drops it!
The dickens, you say!
I could bellow all day
‘Bout the vet who transformed his meal ticket
Yup. The hospit-
-al blues were front page news
For the vet with moolah to deposit
……….
–from Link: “The Het Up Vet,” a poem by Alice B. Clagett, published on 20 February 2018; revised on 14 October 2018 … https://wp.me/p2Rkym-8nK ..
Alice B. Clagett
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