Silly Rabbit-Cat

When you’re a black cat in the grass,

big furry body humped to the sky,
licking your white paws,

you won't be able to evade the laws
of physics—especially gravity—
heavy cat in the grass,

bound in a stiff harness
and leashed by a rope to a tree.
You’re chewing your own paws

because you can’t leap as you please
to where the birds fly.
Poor cat in the grass,

growling plaintively when a blue jay
dive-bombs you, where you lie
biting nothing but your paws.

For this performance, my applause,
Oh, my darling puddy-pie!—
black cat in the grass,
licking your white paws.