Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
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Poem: "Cats Who Fear No Evil"

This poem was inspired by a prompt from ysabel and sponsored by minor_architect.


Cats Who Fear No Evil


For millennia there have been
cats who fear no evil,
who hunted down demons
and plague rats and Nazi spies.

They only seem to be
staring at nothing,
hissing at shadows,
pouncing on bare floors.

In reality, they are
staring at visions,
hissing at wickedness,
pouncing on probabilities.

Today the cats who fear no evil
watch the stock market
as the bears and bulls stampede
and the brokers make a killing.

So when the fearless felines
stare, they see stock markets;
when they hiss, someone is cheating; and
when they pounce, Justice unsheathes ivory claws.

The Wheel of Karma
runs over all dogs in the end,
and puts their small souls into small bodies
that scurry from the hunters’ fangs.
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  • 6 comments
browngirl

browngirl

June 10 2009, 16:39:33 UTC 12 years ago

Oh, I love this.

(Icon for cat, not for message)
ysabetwordsmith

Yay!

ysabetwordsmith

June 10 2009, 19:10:03 UTC 12 years ago

I'm glad you like it. Cats are fun.
ysabel

ysabel

June 10 2009, 20:19:06 UTC 12 years ago

This is awesome.
ysabetwordsmith

Thank you!

ysabetwordsmith

June 10 2009, 20:21:56 UTC 12 years ago

I'm glad you like this.
nhpeacenik

nhpeacenik

June 11 2009, 00:36:08 UTC 12 years ago

We both loved this, and so did our cat. I was SO tempted to read it on the air this morning right after a Ros Bobos song that consisted entirely of meows in different voices, but alas, it's in copyright, and I won't be doing radio shows in 2109 when the copyright expires :)
ysabetwordsmith

Yay!

ysabetwordsmith

June 11 2009, 00:50:42 UTC 12 years ago

>> We both loved this, and so did our cat.<<

I'm glad to hear that.

>> I was SO tempted to read it on the air this morning right after a Ros Bobos song that consisted entirely of meows in different voices, but alas, it's in copyright, and I won't be doing radio shows in 2109 when the copyright expires.<<

Are you still interested in reading it on the air? You're welcome to perform it. (I'd like a copy to hear how it sounds, if possible.) I'm usually willing to let people read my poems -- they've been presented at several readings.

People are always welcome to ask me if they can use my work for some purpose.