Meet Charley, my step daughter Jodette's (Jodi's) puppy, that she welcomed to the family about two months ago. He is a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel. A perfect dog for her small, one bedroom apartment in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota. Jodi received a Master's degree, and was promoted to Manager for a corporation. Thus the Yuppie designation.t

Yuppie - young upwardly mobile professional person
Pocketbook - purse, a leather bag the women carry their essential items in.
Blenheim - pronounced Blen-um
Shag - as in shaggy, rough hair, heavily matted wool or hair.

The Cavalier King Charles Spaniel is a small spaniel classed as a toy dog by The Kennel Club and the American Kennel Club. It is one of the most popular breeds in the United Kingdom, where it also originated. During the early part of the 18th century, John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, kept red and white King Charles type spaniels for hunting. The duke recorded that they were able to keep up with a trotting horse. His estate was named Blenheim in honor of his victory at the Battle of Blenheim. Because of this influence, the red and white variety of the King Charles Spaniel and thus the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel became known as the Blenheim.
A Cavalier should be between 12 to 13 inches (30 to 33 cm) with a proportionate weight between 10 to 18 pounds (4.5 to 8.2 kg). The tail is usually not docked, and it should have a silky coat of moderate length. Feathering can grow on their ears, feet, legs and tail in adulthood. Standards require this be kept long, with the feathering on the feet a particularly important aspect of the breed's features. Spource: Wikipedia.

This poem is a Terza Rima.
Invented by the Italian poet Dante Alighieri in the late thirteenth century to structure his three-part epic poem, The Divine Comedy, Terza Rima is composed of Tercets woven into a rhyme scheme that requires the end-word of the second line in one tercet to supply the rhyme for the first and third lines in the following tercet. Thus, the rhyme scheme (aba, bcb, cdc, ded) continues through to until the final stanza. There is no limit to the number of lines, but poems or sections of poems written in Terza Rima end with a couplet repeating the rhyme of the middle line of the final Tercet:
d-e-d, e or d-e-d, e-e.
There is no set rhythm for terza rima, but in English, iambic pentameter is generally preferred.
For this one, I chose Trimeter (6 syllables), but not iambic.

These pictures were taken by Jodi, but the author created this montage.

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