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AineteEkaterini wrote:Dr, the words you can't make out in 'A Dog ...' seem to me to go:

He smiles, the ???? runs our way,
the kids call out for him,
'Money! Money!'

The word I can't make out does sound like 'people', but it must refer to the dog, so it can't be. Any suggestions for two-syllable words relevant to dogs that begin with P?? or any other way of making sense of it?

Mr. Badmouth wrote:Pitbull?

The kids are rolling dice for change,
sitting on the backyard steps, calling Money’s name.
Old guy walking to the store,
chewing on a cocktail stick, stops to tell us what is what.

He says, “Everything is staged—that’s how it is.
People are just paid an’ bought, an’ I'm tired of it.
What are you gonna do to change it?
Everything is staged—that’s what’s goin’ on.”

The kids rolling dice again,
sun is beating down. I ask the old guy’s name.
He smiles, the pitbull runs our way,
the kids call out for him, “Money! Money!”

He says, “Everything is staged—that’s how it is.
People are just paid an’ bought, an’ I'm tired of it.
What are you gonna do to change it?
It’s all about money—that’s what’s goin’ on.”

That note of stark seething extends to Harry Escott’s score, bookended by his and P.J. Harvey’s disconsolate, shiver-inducing interpretation of the English folk standard “An Acre of Land” — a literal but inarguably effective selection, and one that typifies the coolly updated traditionalism of Barnard’s new approach.