New Poem: National Cat Day

It’s been a looooong time since I’ve written a regular blog or posted a poem. Trying to get back to that. When I found out that today was National Cat Day on my way to work this morning, I couldn’t help but write about it:


Image: by Gaurav Pandit via Wikimedia Commons

National Cat Day
by Ed DeCaria

It’s National Cat Day.
I won’t step outside.
I dared once, a year ago,
nearly darn died.

Those skin-carving claws …
That maniacal hiss …
Just what kind of a sick
celebration is this?

I’m closing my window.
I’m locking my door.
I’m sealing the cracks
in the walls and the floor.

It’s National Cat Day.
I can’t leave my house.
’cause NATIONAL CAT DAY IS BAD!

(for a mouse)

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