you'd spot* dog-headed items rarely seen,
hear sounds as howls (of hounds?) off curbs** careen --
profound, profane...if not to say obscene.
* A veiled reference to Dick and Jane's pet canine?
** Another to the well-known admonition, "Curb your dog!"?
Hear muted "g-r-r-r-r"s from Georgie's* motor-car?
That's napping French New Wave’s Jean-Luc Dogard,
who mouths, in sleep, Miss Mapp’s “Au reservoir!” –
or so reports a doggéd NPR.
* Georgie Pillson and Elizabeth Mapp are characters featured in E. F. Benson's Mapp and Lucia novels. Film director Godard, of course, is not featured there. "Au reservoir!" is Georgie and Lucia's customary farewell malaprop.
Professor Dogbole* spouts Hindu lore.
No "man's best friend," he proffers scant rapport.
He's based on friends of Forster's from Lahore
nor won't be spotted shouting, "Mrs. Moore!"
* Pronounced in three syllables. Any good summary of E. M. Forster's A Passage to India should shed light on Professor Godbole and other elements referenced in this verse.
(More doggerel to come, along with accompanying images: a work in progress)
The Grateful Dead’s Keith Dogchaux
Kraft’s Green Dogdess Salad Dressing
German logician Kurt Dögel
Dogfather’s Pizza
South African DJ Doggy Podgy
Dogha: 2017 Indian Malayalam-language sports comedy film
Lady Dogiva
Portable DJ device: DogJ
Matt Pizzolo’s Dogkiller graphic novels
TV min-series Dogless
Dogman: a type of
charismatic guru in India
Dognosc: Croatian for dignity
Waiting for Dogot
Religious podcast DogPod
Book by McDowell and Jantz: Dogquest
J. K. Rowling’s Dogric Gryffindor
Off-Broadways Dogspell
Dogtropin brand of HRH steroid injection
Russian dancer Alexander Dogunov
Dogvin: IKEA metal table legs
Internet adage Dogwin’s Law
DoGx: medical lab in Madison, Wisconsin
Dogyssey: comic book coming to the big screen
Dogzilla
