our dog didn’t like your latest book

our dog didn’t like your latest book:
too many words.

I mean, he wanted something
he could sink his teeth into and all,
so don’t get me wrong

but yours turned him into a drooling idiot,
made him go all twitchy in his sleep.

I wouldn’t take it personally;
he didn’t like Lassie, much, either

(although he was humping the bookshelf for ages)