These girls tie a pit-bull
\nTo one of the pillars of their house.<\/p>\n
His eyes are red and sort of jaundiced\u2014
\nNot angry like pictures of fight dogs.<\/p>\n
I won\u2019t pet him because I learned:
\nPit-bulls kill and piss on prey,<\/p>\n
But this dog seems all right. He wags,
\nKeeps his mouth shut and stretches.<\/p>\n
His brown and white jaw locks shut; not like
\nThe mouths of chatty people.<\/p>\n
Not like yappy dogs with eyes
\nLike marble-smashers. Those eyes<\/p>\n
Spin at every target. The tongues that wave like purple flags
\nIn used car lots or at the funerals of civic leaders.<\/p>\n
If this pit-bull wore a bowler hat and a v-neck
\nAt the card table, like in a famous painting,<\/p>\n
I\u2019d talk to him. No rumors from him\u2014
\nThis pit-bull probably reads Camus.<\/p>\n
Won\u2019t rip the throats out of people because he knows
\nHe can rip the throats out of people.<\/p>\n
These girls tie a pit-bull To one of the pillars of their house. His eyes are red and sort of jaundiced\u2014 Not angry like pictures of fight dogs. I won\u2019t pet him because I learned: Pit-bulls kill and piss on prey, But this dog seems all right. He wags, Keeps his mouth shut and stretches. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[25],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Jypy-17I","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4322"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10312,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4322\/revisions\/10312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}