Brain Camp by Charles Harper Webb

Author:Charles Harper Webb [Webb, Charles Harper]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780822980476
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press

THE CAT’S MEOW

For I will consider my cat . . .

—Christopher Smart

Hank plucks our window screen, and moans,

“My paws are frozen. Let me in before I die.”

Even gorged on Happy Cat, he wails,

“Why hast thou forsaken me?”

before he bounds onto the bed, and sleeps.

Instead of, “Yay, you’re back! Let me

lick you all over, then let’s play,” he groans,

when I come home, “I have ear mites.

And you let them fix me!” True, I could buy

a bird to sing, “Oh what a beautiful morning,”

(though it’s really “Buzz off, other males.

Hot females, mate with me!”) I could get

a hamster that chuckles, “Heh, heh, heh,

I’ve got cheek-pouches full of seeds, and you

don’t,” or a tortoise who, in a hundred

years, will never break his vow of silence.

But no, I choose my moaning cat,

who flows out of my arms like an orange river—

who springs to the top of our stone wall

easily as angels rise to heaven—who glides

with devilish grace—whose teeth and claws

are rodent death—whose fur whispers,

Caress—who, when I scratch his ears, flops

against me, gives the famous kitty grin,

and condescends to bless me with his purr.

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