Magic Trick #1

I can show you this:
Pick a joke, any joke
commit the words to memory

but don't tell me
what's on the card.

Then pick a dog, any dog and
whisper said joke in its
floppy ear.

Chances are he will laugh
at you, not with you;

beside you while looking through you
because they are always about

such things as sizing you up, knowing
whether or not you are worthy.

Take it as fact, they can tell
in a sense, truth.