I Hate Her:

[SimikPK]

1st edit:
My dog bit the wife
She might have caught rabies-
I put them both down.

The strongest point of this poem is its lenght. That´s what I love about short poems - there is little (but often still much ) which can go wrong. The ambiguous "she" in line 2 does all the good work. Using "the wife" instead of "my wife" to me works as a suggestion of the not-so-good relationship with "the wife" and being where it is - end of a line 1, the line being line 1, makes an excellent introduction and interpretation key to the whole poem. What about naming a specific breed of the dog? It might convey something more, but also could divert the attention from the main (and single) point of the poem. Don´t know, just an idea.

Fantastic!... not the putting down the dog, the poem

Do you think it reffered to the dog who was put down? It is edited now, but still.. consider.