Pit Bull

Reggie, CHS student

John McCoy’s Poetry Workshop,

April 2000

I am a pit bull

I live in a big house

There’s lots of room

There’s lots of love

Lots of food and lots (of) water

Lots of people and,

Lots of fun

I kill, I protect I’m fast

I hear everything

I see black and white but,

I also see very clearly

I’m quiet but if you get close I snap

I go for what’s mine

I here people yell

I here baby’s cry

I here pot’s cooking

I here dog’s next door talking

Or should I say barking

For play I eat shoes

I jump on my owner

I lock on the tire that out back

It swings from the tree

I move like water rough but smooth

I’m scared of nothing I’m the protector

What I love about myself is the fear I put in others.

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