Saturday, March 3, 2012

The Pathos of Cats


They are  by nature  predators,     top of the food-chain, cousins of lions.
They’re sleek, they slink,      as though they own the veldt.
The glint of their unrevealing eyes     has you in their cross-hairs.
Be afraid, be very afraid,      an thou art a mouse.

Yet lo!  what a falling-off there was!
Kittehs    prowling round the kitchen,
harassed by doggehs, eating scrapmeat out of a tin,
their growl    a mere     meowww …..




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