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Roger The Dog

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Asleep he wheezes at his ease.
He only wakes to scratch his fleas.

He hogs the fire, he bakes his head
As if it were a loaf of bread.

He’s just a sack of snoring dog.
You can lug him like a log.

You can roll him with your foot,
He’ll stay snoring where he’s put.

I take him out for exercise,
He rolls in cowclap up to his eyes.

He will not race, he will not romp,
He saves his strength for gobble and chomp.

He’ll work as hard as you could wish
Emptying his dinner dish.

Then flops flat, and digs down deep,
Like a miner, into sleep.

Roger The Dog

by Ted Hughes


Poem © by Ted Hughes from Collected Animal Poems Vol 1-4, published by Faber and Faber Ltd (1995). Reproduced with permission from the publisher

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