Canine Rebirth: Undertale AUs

Ch. 1 A dogs death

Dog's death
Noun
A miserable end
Often a dishonorable or shameful death
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It's odd what you remember when you're dying, for me in my last moments it was a poem I'd only read once or twice that fit morbidity well with how things ended. I think I'll share some of it with you, faceless shadows of the void that you are you can still hear me I'm sure.
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Dog's death by John Updike

She must have been kicked unseen or brushed by a car.
Too young to know much, she was beginning to learn-

We thought her shy malaise was a shot reaction.
The autopsy disclosed a rupture in her liver.
As we teased her with play, blood was filling her skin
And her heart was learning to lie down forever-

She crawled beneath the youngest's bed.
We found her twisted and limp but still alive.
In the car to the vets, on my lap, she tried to bite my hand and died.
I stroked her warm fur and my wife called in a voice - with tears.
Though surrounded by love that would have upheld her,
Nevertheless she sank and, stiffening, disappeared.

Back home, we found that in the night her frame,
Drawing near to dissolution, had endured the shame
And dragged across the floor-
Good dog.
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Maybe you've read this poem before and can tell there are pieces missing, I had reason for that. Should you wish to know the full poem, look it up yourself. It's oddly amusing how fitting the saying of dying a dogs death fits me now... Ahh, but I am tired... The darkness is wallowing me up... At least... My family.... Is.... Safe......
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