I have a twin who had a dog but the dog would follow me home. Much correspondence there has been between our two lies.
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Saturday 4 January 1661/62.
The speaker claims to have a twin, and the twin has a dog, but the dog keeps following the speaker home. That small, odd detail is the key. A dog doesn't make mistakes about who it loves, so the animal quietly suggests that the "twin" and the speaker may not be separate people at all.
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