Lacie Ballard

I chose to paraphrase the same poem that I used in my quote response. The poem is "Care and Feeding" by Billy Collins

"Because I will turn 420 tomorrow
in dog years
I will take myself for a long walk
along the green shore of the lake,"

I am really interprating the poem in two ways the first interpratation is a person who see's their dog really as a part of them and is taking their dog for a walk. Second, the person is really taking care of themselves and literally going on a walk

"and when I walk in the door,
I will jump up on my chest
and lick my nose and eyelids
while I tell myself again and again to get down"

This is where I think the first interpratation is more true, I think the writer is describing how their excited dog is happy to them.

The rest of the poem goes on to describe variations of how he himself interacts with himself as a dog?--sounds counfusing but basically he is just describing how close he is with his dog.