2 leaves from the notebook of a VPDT

2 leaves from the notebook of a VPDT

Back in 67, when I was a
 ...Veterinary Police Dog Trainee
 I found a guy on all 4s at the traffic lights.
 "Yap yap yap yap" he said to me
 (not seeing my armband VPDT)

 I hit him on the left arm, as per book.
 Cured! He stood up, and acted like a man.
 A small crowd clapped, and he was led away.

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 Medium Danger telephones are red.
 Dangerous ones are red, and wider too.
 In a glass-fronted bookcase upstairs
 200 white crash helmets lie.
 The projectionist's room lies higher still
 I found it on a shelf among the helmets.

 A blow from the tail of a VPDT may be fatal.

 When man does dance with man
 his ear does touch the man's.