[
  {
    "title": "Loyalty",
    "author": "Edward Taylor",
    "lines": [
      "This is the hardest part:",
      "When I came back to life",
      "I was a good family dog",
      "and not too friendly to strangers.",
      "I got a thirty-five dollar raise",
      "in salary, and through the pea-soup fogs",
      "I drove the General, and introduced him",
      "at rallies. I had a totalitarian approach",
      "and was a massive boost to his popularity.",
      "I did my best to reduce the number of people.",
      "The local bourgeoisie did not exist.",
      "One of them was a mystic",
      "and walked right over me",
      "as if I were a bed of hot coals.",
      "This is par for the course-",
      "I will be employing sundry golf metaphors",
      "henceforth, because a dog, best friend",
      "and chief advisor to the General, should.",
      "While dining with the General I said,",
      "\"Let's play the back nine in a sacred rage.",
      "Let's tee-off over the foredoomed community",
      "and putt ourselves thunderously, touching bottom.\"",
      "He drank it all in, rugged and dusky.",
      "I think I know what he was thinking.",
      "He held his automatic to my little head",
      "and recited a poem about my many weaknesses,",
      "for which I loved him so."
    ],
    "linecount": "27"
  }
]