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[00:50.46]July 4th 1981,candles of a Roman ilk
[00:53.84]Unloaded from a chevy truck
[00:55.39]Into the home her folks had built
[00:56.99]Patio was charcoals and extended fam in folding chairs
[01:00.23]Safely arced around the yard to focus on the smoking flares
[01:03.30]Couple cousins, uncles, aunts, mostly grown-ups, couple brats
[01:06.66]Baby Ruby's only two
[01:07.89]She's too close to the jumping jacks
[01:09.77]Mommy scoops her to the house
[01:11.39]Buckles up the booster seat
[01:12.94]Rolls her to the storm door
[01:14.20]Let her long for all the lunacy
[01:16.01]Telephone distracting Mom
[01:17.79]Ruby wriggles out her strap
[01:19.21]Fingers push the plexi-glass
[01:20.62]She's off into the sour patch
[01:22.20]Past the pyrotechnics undetected and invisible
[01:25.53]Woke the sleeping beagle skipping toward the kidney swimming pool
[01:28.75]Off into the yawning blue
[01:30.00]The splash would mum the rocket-ships
[01:31.92]Ruby's lungs were filling by the time her kin were cognizant
[01:35.02]Many sprung and sprinted down
[01:36.85]All arrive belated but
[01:37.92]The beast she had earlier stirred had been alert since waking up
[01:41.36]Canine let his gainer fly
[01:42.90]Water top commotion grow
[01:44.49]Howling guests assumed the cloven hoofs had come to do-si-do
[01:47.65]Frenzied and congested deck
[01:49.28]Part to let the elders see
[01:50.79]Soggy beagle gently dragging Ruby in his yellow teeth
[01:53.95]Laid the tiny body in the sun before her Father's feet
[01:57.04]When she choked the liquid through her bluish lips he dropped his knee
[02:00.24]Helped the air to reconvene
[02:01.84]Towel his shaking Ruby off
[02:03.24]EMT confirm the save
[02:05.08]Everybody say
[02:05.74]"Good dog!"
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