Dog-and-Pony Show

There is no sin except stupidity

Let your great-great-grandma’s god’s

dogma be your seeing eye

 

and your hearing ear dog (good

boy!) and let its stride guide you

 

to let go, let sleeping dogs

lie, get rid of this gay guy’s

 

gaudy, dog-eared doggerel

before you get the gaybies,

 

before becoming smitten—

bitten by the bitch’s wit. 

Andrew Eastman holds a 4-year BA in creative writing from the University of Winnipeg. His poetry has been featured in The Winnipeg Free Press, Juice and rip/torn. While poetry is his primary art form, Andrew is also the co-founder of Synonym Art Consultation, a local arts initiative in Winnipeg, and uses this platform to create and curate visual art as well.