I would like to register my support for Mike Greene s initiatives for restricting dogs, and record in verse a personal experience: 7am on Hampstead Heath. The shapes that form through early morning fogs Have often fooled the wariest of eyes, So when I t

I would like to register my support for Mike Greene's initiatives for restricting dogs, and record in verse a personal experience:

7am on Hampstead Heath.

The shapes that form through early morning fogs

Have often fooled the wariest of eyes,

So when I thought I saw a thousand dogs

I wondered - was this one of nature's lies?

They crowded like the sands upon the shore

Stretched out along some South Pacific bay,

Infinities arrived, then more, then more,

Engulfed in a sub-optimal bouquet.

What, had the human race at last withdrawn

And ushered in the kingdom of the cur?

Was this the herald of a doggy dawn?

I took no chances, mumbling "Please!" and "Sir!" -

It's better not to tangle with a pup

Whose tongue is hanging down, and stock is up.

David Crook

Hampstead Square, NW3