Kitty Ditties

Persian Pundits and Siamese Sages

A mathematically mischievious cat, Mephistopheles,

Could square the hypoteneuse and meiow hypotheses

About the world's origin in 3 seconds round or flat

While Socrates, no simple syllogist, was customarily curious

How dogs could yap and yip in yelps sufficiently furious

To appall any meditatively mannerly, self respecting cat.

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Now, Socrates was a wise old cat,

Could elude prying humans, out-think any rat;

He'd paw his whiskers like a white moustache,

Meiow his every doubt in a high what or how.

But Ceasar, however much he'd try to fool us,

Was a lounging Tom, not conquering Julius;

Though, when dreaming of mouse-lands in a milk sea,

He paraded, tail bannerlike and ears high

And ruled his rodent realm with gourmet glee

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My cats, indeed, are quite eclectic:

One's fur flies up, sparked electric;

He looms luminous, tall and large,

Bloated by electric charge.

One's hair falls fast, limp and flat;

He cringes, small, by the electric cat.

One lunges at imagined moths,

Chases cords and swinging cloths,

Carols coloratura when he's curious,

Caterwails when he frowns furious,

While tuxedoed Tom, though electrified,

Merely muses mute and dignified.

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The Write Cat

My Tom's a bright and big boy -

He does it to annoy.

When he's lonely and he's

Ignored, he stomps upon the keys.

Should I teach my pet the alphabet

Hope he pats out witty prose?

Teach him edition and derision,

Hope each kitty ditty shows

He can add up what he knows?

Or will Cat, nipped by the rage

To peck pointless periods on a page,

Type no tyke teasers or hypotheses,

But pat out parades of parentheses?

Teach his protegee to nap upon the spacer

Just because he's cat-curious,

Add the nanoseconds until I'm furious

Enough to scream and chase her?

Teach kit to leap and race her

Claws without pause or erasures

Until white's stippled with a luxurious

Excess of "@g$*&mF09+!"ers?

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Keyboard Kitty

My cat once preferred the mouse.

Now he prefers the keys;

Leaps and lands and like a souse

Types a tippler's nonsense pleas.

Kitty's a computer pet

Who ogles at the internet.

Though of the wired generation

With wild-child couger concentration,

She'll take lap and nap over browsing

And virtual carousing.

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Are purrs music or monotonous?

The worldy cats have all gotten us

To meet this murmerer as a chum.

But for some, too "Humbug" and humdrum,

Purrs rumble like an ancient motor's hum.

I fall asleep with cats and fear

Waking with a mower groaning in my ear.

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all art and writing copyright by cl Frost