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Lily Liver Series

By Susan Swain

Copyright 2011 Susan Swain

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On the Ball



Lily Liver spotted dog

can’t play catch and fetch,

she runs away when balls are thrown,

running at full stretch.



Boomerang black labrador

doggedly retrieves,

he watches where the balls are thrown,

fetching them for Jeeves.



Two Pi R dalmatian dog

doesn’t want to play,

she wouldn’t want to fetch the balls

her owner throws away.



Boomerang the wonder dog

bounds around and round

leaping up and catching balls

before they hit the ground.



But woeful Lily Liver

wishes they would stop,

it’s raining balls and labrador

plop plop plop plop plop.



Boomerang’s exuberant

and only wants to play

so it’s lonely for a labrador

when Lily runs away.



Boomerang runs after her

what can he have in mind,

surely not to share the ball

with Lily Liver’s kind.



The labrador remembers for

playing catch and fetch,

passing balls from hand to mouth,

reaching at full stretch.



Playfully he drops the ball

down by Lily’s paw

then looks to her to pick it up

like a labrador.



Lily Liver picks it up,

it doesn’t taste too bad,

then she puts it down again,

catching on like mad.



Boomerang stands back a bit

and drops the ball once more

then looks to Lily Liver

to fetch it like before.



Plucky Lily picks it up

and so they can see

she runs round where balls are thrown,

running gleefully.



No, not woeful anymore,

they won’t fall on her head,

she leaps up to bite the balls

and catches them instead.



Sometimes beating Boomerang,

she doesn’t miss a beat,

bouncing back with ball in mouth

to drop it at my feet.



Now she’s standing back a bit


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