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Surprised cat, Leipzig: photo by Lipedia, July 2010
in grievous deity my cat
walks around
he walks and around and around
with
electric tail and
push-button
eyes
he is
alive and
plush and
final as a plum tree
neither of us understands
cathedrals or
the man outside
watering his
lawn
if I were all the man
that he is
cat --
if there were men
like this
the world would
begin
he leaps up on the couch
and walks through
porticoes of my
admiration.
Charles Bukowski (1920-1994): startled into life like fire, from Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame: Selected Poems 1955-1973, 1974
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