Saturday, June 08, 2013

Yes Many Things Will Happen Between Now and Then


You’re too young to remember the rather felinish
Attitude I once leveled at the world but I was
Younger then too and exceptionally catnipish
Brass buffed brigadiers could not ruffle the feathers
Perpetually protruding from my lips like frisky whiskers
Back then I shrugged off all assaults to my impish
Indeed my imperially mischievous  independence
Me so casual with borrowed style me so haute
Watch out I'd purr in a lover’s ear I bite Meow!
But that was all so many years ago and now
I’m only an aging mutt who smuggles this brick
Of words across what border?  These days what
Preoccupies me are the slender letters the vowels
And the consonants the sound of absent flowers

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