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The Secret In The Cat
Contributed by
Panther_1978
on
Thursday, 19th December 2002 @ 08:40:00 AM in AEST
Topic:
PetPoems
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I took my cat apart
to see what made him purr
Like an electric clock
or like the snore
Of a warming kettle,
something fizzed & sizzled in him.
Was he a soft car,
the engine bubbling sound?
Was there a wire beneath his fur,
or a humming throttle?
I undid his throat.
Within was no stir.
I opened up his chest
as thought it were a door:
no whisk or rattle there.
I lifted off his skull:
no hiss or mummer.
I halved his little belly
but found no gear,
no cause for static.
So I replaced his lid,
Laced his little gut.
His heart into his vest I slid
and buttoned up his throat.
His tail rose to a rod
and beckoned to the air.
Some voltage made his vibrate
warmer than before.
Whiskers and a tail:
Perhaps they caught
some radar code
emitted as a pip, a dot-and-dash
of woolen sound.
My cat a kind of tuning fork?-
amplifier?-telegraph?-
doing secret signal work?
His eyes elliptic tubes:
there’s a message in his stare.
I stroke him
But cannot find the Dial.
Copyright ©
Panther_1978
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2002-12-19 08:40:00]
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Re: The Secret In The Cat
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by OreO on
Thursday, 19th December 2002 @ 08:44:32 PM AEST
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Wow lol...im glad this isn't true...thanks for sharing this one Mike it made me smile...Keep em' coming i like reading your poetry...
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Re: The Secret In The Cat
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by Panther_1978 on
Thursday, 19th December 2002 @ 11:55:04 PM AEST
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I know I shouldn't comment on my own poetry but I just like to say this *now that I think about it* should go under fantisity poetry... I had trouble chosing between pet poems or fantisity poems...
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Re: The Secret In The Cat
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by Jenni_Kalicharan on
Saturday, 21st December 2002 @ 05:07:59 PM AEST
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LOLS@Mike.... You like playing with cats, don't you....
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