is it safe for dogs to eat

asparagus?
silvery snakes bashed into the sidewalk?
shame?
hot Cheetoes?
old solutions to new problems?
libertarianism?
Eastern Standard Time?

anti-natalist literature?
Nutella pancakes?
gratitude at the ability to feel anything at all?
emails from Cyclebar that arrive well after death?
legacy admissions to Ivy League universities?

three falcons, hunting?
egg salad?
an unhinged desire to be the sun?
consequential violation of unjust laws?
Herman Hesse’s secret from the river?
elegiac poetry?
raisins?

serendipitous loss?
AI-generated art criticism?
intolerable pain?
nag champa incense cones?
the baseless dichotomies of
      sun and leaf,
        man and beast,
          self and other,
            savior and saved?