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Bibbles / Little black dog in New Mexico, / Little black snub-nosed bitch with a shoved-out jaw / And a wrinkled reproachful look; / Little black female pup, sort of French bull, they say, / With bits of brindle coming through, like rust, to show you're not pure; / Not pure, Bibbles, / Bubsey, bat-eared dog; / Not black enough!
First live thing I've "owned" since the lop-eared rabbits when I was a lad, / And those over-prolific white mice, and Adolf, and Rex whom I didn't own. / And even now, Bibbles, little Ma'am, it's you who appropriated me, not I you. / As Benjamin Franklin appropriated Providence to his purposes.