I have sat on your keyboard and erased the message which you had spent twenty minutes writing Forgive me the keyboard felt so warm on my cold paws. ************ I woke you at four a.m. with piteous cries and yowls when you were planning to sleep until seven Forgive me it was so dark and my belly was so empty. ************* I knocked over the flowers that were in the vase which you had placed so carefully on the table Forgive me they looked much prettier on their sides. ************* I scratched your cheek in the dark when you did not want to wake up or bleed Forgive me the blankets are so heavy and I prefer when you lift them
Notes: I wanted to experiment with a false apology poem and decided it would be much more fun to write from the perspective of a cat. And I was right. Here is a photo of Zorro trying to eat tulips (which are toxic to cats, but apparently he doesn’t know that. Never fear: they were removed before he could actually bite them).
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