Another small dead animal. Molly was an old tailless tortoise-shell rescued when her owner died. Unlike Mitzy, Molly was a Zen cat blissfully tolerant of fellow felines, thunder storms, which she liked to sit in, and the misfortune of possessing a baldy arse. Here she receives palliative care from Puthwuth, who runs a clean ship.
This dead tortie
was a Cheshire cat
but in the wrong order.
The grin went first.
There never was
a tail, just
a balding stump.
But then to see
the rest go – legs,
lungs collapse –
a broken bellows –
it is murder.
Don’t talk to me
about loss,
who flatter myself
I feel in my lap
the flick of her missing
tail’s contented
Do bats eat cats?
ReplyDeleteI wish they did.
Not enough people know that cats are in fact vegetarian. When they feel a mouse or bird is in danger, from a passing spider for instance, they will sometimes hide these creatures in their bellies for sake keeping, but still the meat-ending slander lives on! Shocking.
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