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<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal align=center><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT face=Calibri>THE KISS<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>or<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal align=center><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT face=Calibri>BY Maggie Honnold<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal align=center><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT face=Calibri>Huck, my Basset boyfriend, will come to sit upon my knee<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal align=center><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT face=Calibri>And get right down to business for he’s in love with me.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal align=center><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT face=Calibri>He takes his great big paws; he does, and puts them on my chest<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal align=center><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT face=Calibri>And he opens up his snout and with his tongue starts to caress.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal align=center><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT face=Calibri>I holler “help” but no one comes, for my family thinks it’s funny,<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal align=center><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT face=Calibri>To see that Huckleberry Hound is sitting on my tummy.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal align=center><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT face=Calibri>60 pounds of Basset has me pinned right to my chair<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal align=center><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT face=Calibri>And of this lap of Basset, I have learned I must beware.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal align=center><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT face=Calibri>I hold my breath, my head goes back but I’m not out of reach<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal align=center><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT face=Calibri>For that foot long tongue just follows me, its contact I can’t breach.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal align=center><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT face=Calibri>Then, my chin gets wet, my tee shirt too as drool begins to drip<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal align=center><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT face=Calibri>He has me now, right where he wants, I am in his grip.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal align=center><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT face=Calibri>Gasping slight, I turn my head from right to left and back<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal align=center><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT face=Calibri>But it does no good for on my lips he places a large smack.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal align=center><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT face=Calibri>Up and down his tongue does go; it darts back and forth,<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal align=center><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT face=Calibri>Into one nostril it penetrates, there are buggers there no more.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal align=center><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT face=Calibri>Oh, I fear what’s coming next for it has happened once before<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal align=center><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT face=Calibri>I try again to hold my breath, as <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>his tongue comes back for more.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal align=center><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT face=Calibri>And then it happens as I yell “stop”, his tongue comes boldly in<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal align=center><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT face=Calibri>Where no man’s tread for years and years, the process then begins.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal align=center><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT face=Calibri>He rubs my lips, he feels my teeth, and my tonsils try to hide<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal align=center><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT face=Calibri>But the onward plunge continues, as in my mouth that tongue abides.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal align=center><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT face=Calibri>Deeper, deeper down it goes, it slides and slips around<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal align=center><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT face=Calibri>No space within my mouth is safe, where Huck’s tongue cannot be found.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal align=center><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT face=Calibri>I start to cough and sputtering I sit up in the chair<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal align=center><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT face=Calibri>His tongue comes out, I take a breath, but now he’s in my hair.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal align=center><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT face=Calibri>My bangs he licks, my eyebrows too, my glasses sit askew<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal align=center><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT face=Calibri>But I really love my Basset Boy, so what’s a girl to do?<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal align=center><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT face=Calibri>Finally I push him off and he looks at me so sad<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal align=center><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT face=Calibri>His eyes say “mom I love you, is kissing me so bad?”<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal align=center><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT face=Calibri>I’m just a loving Basset Boy asking nothing in return<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal align=center><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT face=Calibri>But a kiss to plant upon you and have it not be spurned.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal align=center><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT face=Calibri>For Basset love, my special kind, I wear upon my sleeve<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal align=center><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT face=Calibri>And kisses given just to you are so that you’ll believe.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal align=center><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT face=Calibri>Basset Snooters are the BEST, just deal with it Mom!<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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