CAT PHILES

The Cat Ascendant

The Dialogue Between Youth
and Ketchup on rpca*

YP (young person):
Hi! I like cats. I’m age twelve.
Can I join your group? You like cats yourselves.

KB (ketchup basher – older for sure, with abrupt change of subject)
I want to say how much I mind it
Saying ketchup’s a vegetable. Absurd I find it!
How could anyone say a condiment
Like ketchup’s a vegetable. Their logic’s bent!!!!

YP:
About the ketchup, I want to ask
What does that have to do with CATS?

KB:
You should take thought before you respond.
Criticism’s not nice. And this group’s not fond
Of persons intruding their flaming bits.
Be careful or you too could take a hit.

CV (Cat Versifier & pacifist responding to YP):
There’s Nothing! Nothing!
To answer you plain.
We go OT on each little whim
And then come round to cats again.

We dance around our cats and life
And the cats dance back or then observes
The show or plots to wrinkle our equanimity
While we’re OT, what such inattention deserves.

*rpca = rec.pets.cats.anecdotes, a usenet group of fun and frolic,
at least while I was there.

Copyright © 2002 Sandy Landfried
Completed 13 January, 2002


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