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Date Posted: 08:26:30 10/08/03 Wed
Author: Raphaela
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Subject: Re: Cats Finding Weaknesses in Men
In reply to: Gray Squirrel 's message, "Cats Finding Weaknesses in Men" on 01:04:50 10/08/03 Wed

The simplicity of the first stanza leads the reader gently in before revealing the multi-layered complex ones that follow. A poem which deserves several readings to appreciate.

Raphaela

>Cats Finding Weaknesses in Men
>
>Swift as a cat,
>I might go here or there,
>If I was a cat,
>A cat like that...
>Maybe I should
>Wonder.
>
>I was sort of comfortable here,
>In my reconciliation...
>In my recurrent isolation,
>With a ghostly promise,
>You would recognize it,
>Again.
>
>I suffer presumption, but let me
>Please, just let me
>Say it while it's fresh.
>
>These things and meaning,
>Am I really that vain?
>Oh, but I know a feeling,
>I know a number of feelings, in fact,
>When I feel them...
>Who doesn't?
>
>I know a number of feelings...
>And sometimes they are
>Correct.
>
>I find myself explaining,
>That I'm not that man,
>That shrewd sly contraption,
>That conniption...
>
>Then I'm thinking how lonely
>The blue darkness severs
>My brave thoughts from
>Immediate grasp...
>
>I'm thinking how to explain,
>Or that I don't even know you,
>But maybe I want to,
>Though I'm not sure why...
>Not all of it, I mean,
>Not all the way through...
>Yet.
>
>"Oh no", I'm thinking,
>I was a cat curled in that
>Fine bed of dry musty leaves
>That I would miss, as a memory,
>But a kiss, a true kiss might elude me...
>
>Oh no!
>And tomorrow I might see
>What laughing sprites made
>Such a hunched-over,
>Hump-slackened
>Fool of me...
>
>Here, or what fear has
>Done that very same thing
>That a sprite might like to
>Do to me,
>Again.
>
>-Gray Squirrel

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