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Janet, Just got a chance to read this. BRAVO! Cathy janet paterson wrote: > Catlette's Soliloquy > > To go outside, Or to remain within: > That is the question; > Whether 'tis better for a cat to suffer > The cuffs and buffets of inclement weather > That Nature rains on those who roam abroad, > Or take a nap upon a scrap of carpet, > And by so dozing melt the solid hours > That clog the clock's bright gears with sullen time > and stall the dinner bell. > To sit, to stare > Outdoors, and by a stare to seem to state > A wish to venture forth without delay, > Then when the portal's opened up, to stand > As if transformed by doubt. > To prowl; to sleep; > To choose not knowing when we may once more > Our readmittance gain: aye, there's the hairball; > For if paw were shaped to turn a knob, > Or work a lock or slip a window-catch, > And going out and coming in were made > as simple as the breaking of a bowl, > What cat would bear the household's petty plagues > The cook's well-practiced kicks, the butler's broom, > The infant's careless pokes, the tickled ears, > The trampled tail, and all the daily shocks > That fur is heir to, when, of his own free will, > He might his exodus or entrance make > With a mere mitten? > Who would spaniels fear, > Or strays trespassing from a neighbor's yard, > But that the dread of our unheeded cries > And scratches at a barricaded door > No claw can open up, dispels our nerve > And makes us rather bear our humans' faults > Than run away to unguessed miseries? > Thus caution doth make house cats of us all; > And thus the bristling hair of resolution > Is softened up with the pale brush of thought, > And since our choices hinge on weighty things, > We pause on the threshold of decision. > > ~Shakespaw~ > > with purrs to Mimi-Ji > > janet paterson > 52 now / 41 dx / 37 onset > 613 256 8340 po box 171 almonte ontario canada K0A 1A0 > a new voice: <http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Village/6263/> > <[log in to unmask]>