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Cat haiku

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (meeroh)
Sat Sep 4 18:55:11 1999

Date: Sat, 04 Sep 1999 17:29:08 -0400
From: meeroh@MIT.EDU (meeroh)
To: humor@MIT.EDU

>[Authors unknown to me]
>
>
>   You never feed me.
>   Perhaps I'll sleep on your face.
>   That will show you.
>
>
>   You must scratch me there!
>   Yes, above my tail! Behold,
>   Elevator butt.
>
>
>   I need a new toy.
>   Tail of black dog keeps good time.
>   Pounce! good dog! good dog!
>
>
>   The rule for today.
>   Touch my tail, I shred your hand.
>   New rule tomorrow.
>
>
>   In deep sleep hear sound
>   Cat vomit hairball somewhere.
>   Will find in morning.
>
>
>   Grace personified
>   I leap into the window;
>   I meant to do that
>
>
>   Blur of motion, then--
>   Silence, me, a paper bag
>   What is so funny?
>
>
>   The mighty hunter
>   Returns with gifts of plump birds
>   Your foot just squashed one.
>
>
>   You're always typing.
>   Well, let's see you ignore my
>   Sitting on your hands
>
>
>
>   My small cardboard box
>   You cannot see me if I
>   Can just hide my head.
>
>
>   Terrible battle
>   I fought for hours. Come and see!
>   What's a 'term paper'?
>
>
>   Kitty likes plastic,
>   Confuses for litter box.
>   Don't leave tarp around
>
>
>   Small brave carnivores
>   Kill pine cones and mosquitoes,
>   Fear vacuum cleaner
>
>
>   Want to trim my claws
>   Don't even think about it!
>   My yelps will wake the dead
>
>   I want to be close
>   To you. Can I fit my head
>   inside your armpit?
>
>
>   Wanna go outside.
>   Oh, no! Help! I got outside!
>   Let me back inside!
>
>
>   Oh no! Big One
>   has been trapped by newspaper.
>   Cat to the rescue!
>
>
>   Humans are so strange.
>   Mine lies still in the bed, then screams!
>   My claws aren't that sharp....
>
>
>   Cats meow out of angst
>   "Thumbs! If only we had thumbs!
>   We could break so much"
>
>
>   Litter box not here
>   You must have moved it again
>   I'll crap in the sink
>
>
>   The Big Ones snore now
>   Every room is dark and cold
>   time for "Cup Hockey"
>
>
>   We're almost equals
>   I purr to show I love you
>   Want to smell my butt?

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