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Showing posts with label cat lovers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cat lovers. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 5, 2008

For people who love cats

This blog may need some comic relief. So, here is a poem by me that started out as a parody of Emily Dickinson. But I could not really get the edginess with which she often goes against the meter she has set up. And so, I ended up with a poem "in the style of Dickinson":

There is a corner in my room
where Cat prefers to pee -
and then he yawns and walks away -
leaving the mess to me.

And as a wipe I contemplate
the nature of this act -
was this a form of vengeance or
simply a lack of tact?

But then I look into his eyes
and in his whiskered face -
I gather up my soap and cloth -
and sigh - and rest my case.