indestructible dog toy

digital print on stretched canvas

20" x 24"

20126

MARY says this new indestructible dog toy, for once, is

actually indestructible. So far, at least, her dogs have not

succeeded in destroying it.Which reminds me of my own

indestructible toy I played with when I was a young boy.

Fast-forward forty years — I can pull it down from the

closet upstairs and play with it just like I used to. One of

 those chunky plastic oblong stackt cubes games where you

have to shuttle a small white ball from one end of the ob-

long to the other with a TWIST of the yellow KNOB, a

PIVOT of the green DIAL, and an in-and-out SLIDE

of the red LEVER, or maybe it was blue. Forty years of

use and it still works just the same. When it turns sixty

it’ll still be working. So far — indestructible. Not many

toys you can say THAT about. To me that’s what a good

poem is: an indestructible dog toy. You can chew it over

and over but you can never chew it up.