The Karma of Cats
We must remember
The karma of cats:
Things they have eaten,
Places they sat.
We must recall all the
Lizards and snakes--
The butterfly dazed,
the staring at rakes…
We must think of
All the cat-like desires
All the leaping, the playing,
The inordinately wasteful feline hours--
We are forced to remember
The karma of cats
When they bring to your door
The headless bodies of young dumb squirrels
You don't know what you're supposed
To do with it so you toss it out with the garbage,
I am suffused in
The karma of cats:
A black one, a white one,
One gentle, one tough.
Tortoiseshell toms,
Pregnant mothers and screwy Siamese . . .
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