Catnip

Catnip

(PM L!V)

I heard the thud on the floor

as he cat made a less

than cat-like jump from the

couch onto the hardwood.

She was graceful, lithe

and had a beautiful shiny

coat.

She came home doped up

after the operation

and was in a bit of a daze

for a day or two.

She would occasionally look

at me closely as if to ask

why we had put her through

a hysterectomy.

Surely her instinct couldn't

tell her what we had

done,

and what she would be missing.

I don't think she was really

mad at me but since

the whole episode,

I feel she doesn't wholly

trust me anymore.

Last night I woke up and she was

batting my feet,

I don't know if I had been

disturbing her,

or she was just playing with me.

She gets groggy when she sleeps

and the first half hour after she

wakes up is usually spent in

what I believe to be a

hallucinogenic paradise.

I hear her cry sometimes when

I am asleep and when I

go and search for her,

I will find her alone, staring

at the wall where maybe there

was a caterpillar a minute ago.

She cries to go outside when its raining

and when I open the door and she

sees the water coming down

she looks at me angrily and berates

me for allowing it to rain

on her property.

MCC