The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog

The quick brown fox 
Jumps over the lazy dog.

The ‘the’ brings ’t’ & ‘h’ 

To the rare occasion 

Of an alphabet family photograph

Where the fox and the dog hold them all

As close as grammar would allow.

‘The’ fox and ‘the’ dog?

In a world where the computer

Became the iPod

And ‘okay’ became…k

How can we afford

A 3 letter article, the ‘the’

When one of them could easily

Be replaced with an ‘a’?

So I decided to give it a try.

A quick brown fox

Jumps over the lazy dog.

A quick brown fox?

Yes a fox doesn’t stay

And it’s quick at that

It’s sly not pretty

And we use brown for that

So, yes a quick brown fox

Seems quite alright.

Until you hear what it does.

It jumps over a dog

Isn’t that quite a feat?

No, it can’t just be any fox

This one is a significant fox

It is the subject of the matter

The fox that jumps over a dog

Just to get the alphabets together.

I mean how often do you hear that?

So I thought it could be ‘a’ dog.

The quick brown fox 

Jumps over a lazy dog.

Well, a lazy dog

Must be an adored pet

That’s common these days

When we get what we want

And provide it with enough

To make it ours forever.

Aha! A lazy dog seemed alright.

Until the significant fox jumps over.

A brown fox from the wild? 

That gives quite a scare!

Even we, with our claims on laziness

Spending weekends on couches

Keeping Netflix in business

Couldn’t be lazy enough

To miss the fox jump over.

This is one lazy dog

This is the lazy dog.

The fox and the dog

To whom we never gave a thought

Seem to be protagonists

Of individual stories.

That’s probably how they survived

The wrath of humankind

That keeps it all short.

And I hope I get to see

The ‘the’ before their names

Each time I read about 

The extraordinary heroic act

Of the fox and the dog

While downloading free fonts.