A dear friend gave me an early birthday gift: a magnetic poetry set, the Cat Lover edition.
When I got home that night {in the wee hours of the morning} I opened the set up at once; plopped all the magnets atop an old metal box for photographic slides, sat in bed and played with 'em for an hour. Later that morning, after some sleep, I transferred 'em to the fridge and played with 'em 'til noon; that has to be the longest I've ever stood in front of my fridge without the door open.
I have an inordinate fondness for my own poetry, bordering on the Vogon {both the inordinateness and the poetry, that is}; so I can't resist blogging the poor little blighters.
Since there is as of yet no authoritative body to which I can be reported for having commited Cruelty to Poetry, and since my readership is mercifully below scant, I believe I may indite with impunity.
Someday a group of people may band together to stop me; perhaps they'll call themselves something like the People's Parliament for Promoting the Protection & Preservation of Proper Poetry (PPPPPPP), or some such. Maybe some Superhero of Scansion will head up a Poetic Justice League; or some Self-Appointed Vigilante* will crusade to save the world from poetasters.
And then I'll stop.
'Till then, if you can't bear to see poems being so cruelly treated, then you'll just have to look away.
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* "When they speak of him aloud... they call him The Laureate. But he just signs himself 'Bob'."
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{i} still life with cat
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hair . ball
no . not . my . chair . no
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wild . hunter . stalk.s . a . pillow
pounce . swat . cough
sofa . is . tricky
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how . do.es . fur
sense . color
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pad.d.ing . soft.ly ... grace . my . lap ... almost . above . affection ... suffer . me . to . scratch . your . ear
give . in ... with . a . whisker . stroke . kiss ... ... sleep.y . face
leap . across . at . that . short . gift . of . string ... ... ... live . full . life
... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... nip . on . by
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{ii } note to self
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after . litter
wash . feet
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I
never
did
break
this
purr
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mischevous
play
mice
though
wonderful
are
soon
quiet
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... ... ... ... ... curious . dream
... ... ... ... I . ate . yarn . birds
... ... ... drank . heaven . out . of . a . fish . bowl
... ... special . little . can.s ... only . pure . mouse
... could . feel . like . home
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{iii} unity of purpose
light.ly . place.d . paw
... up
must . feed . feline
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