Thursday, February 27, 2020

Pretty

To have once been pretty
in the eyes of the beholder.
May I pet my kitty,
even if they’re over fifty?
They can only grow still older.
Will Merlin themselves be pretty
in hundreds of years when they’re practically a bitty
baby at last, crying,
“Pet me, I’m a kitty!”
And forthwith they take the titty
and start growing upward like Jack’s beanstalk.
pretty
again just past the point of puberty,
before we tire of all the sex talk.
Such a pretty kitty
I was back in the days of serenditty,
smelling of alder catkins, I’m not lying!
Once and future pretty.
I’ll pet my kitty.