A man with a dog outside Monoprix

A man with a dog outside supermarket Monoprix in Nice.

He was always with an old white dog.
She was nearly "gray" instead of her real colour.
She was always sitting next to him on a comfortable mattress.

He was always sitting directly on the street
with one knee raised & other on the ground.

She was always calm looking at him like his mother
with her tongue coming out from in between her left teeth.
White old maｌｔese.

When it rains, he put an umbrella over her,
He never had an umbrella for himself.
It makes people have a warm feeling. - makes smile -

People start talk about him
A man outside Monoprix with an old white dog
They are saying " She is adorable ."

People talk to him, how the dog is, how his life is.
He looks so comfortable and people give him more money
sometime whole packet of biscuits for his dog  .

He is there always from Monday to Saturday,
while the shop is open
like his reserved place
He was always there.

Once I was walking through Rue Massena on Sunday.
I saw him on the corner on the street.
He's somewhere else also on Sunday,
like going to work everyday.

One day, the dog was not there,
next day as well.
People started worrying, and asked him where she was gone.

He said "She's gone."

People feel sorry for him.
She was only company for him like a family.

However, a week later he's got a new dog already.
It makes people surprised, wondering how quickly he could get over.

The new dog was much younger than the other dog,
but he/she had a white curly hair like a little poodle.

He goes back to work like nothing terrible happened.
I wonder "Is he not too sad about loosing other dog ?"

He seems happy with the dog again at least.
Maybe it is more important thing for him.

He was always there with the dog again,
when it's sunny, when it's rainy, when the cold arrives the city..

One year had passed,
I came back to Nice again in September from my long absence in summer.
I went to the supermarket to buy things I needed.

The dog wasn't there any more.
The man was there, begging money.
However, he looks much older and weary.
Now nobody talk to him anymore.

Now he looks just like other begger on the street.
People talked to him, because he was a man who was taking care of the little dog like a family.
However, now nobody cares or give him money anymore.

Now he's all alone.
The dog might have gone somewhere or he might abandoned it.
Nobody knows.

He might abandoned the dog in order to stay at a public shelter for homeless people
where they don't accept people with animals.
Nobody know the truth.
Now finally he lost a family,
and people ignore his existence.

A man without a dog.
He has lost maybe something the most important in his life..