1.

My sister lost her husband not long ago

A time of grief and tears

But time can help the mind prepare

For the lonely ensuing years.

And her life has had other companions

Of an origin Siamese

Who seem to spend their purring lives

Trying their best to please.

As if they know their place is now

To comfort and console

To provide some ongoing love beyond

The knowledge of the human soul

 

2.

I once fell out with a high-minded poet

A publisher of a collection of verse 

Who took exception (wouldn't you just know it?!)

To my poem -  I was the devil or worse;

A vile villain of an unmentionable sort,

I was accused of having a most cruel thought

When in a poem about hard won love

I sought inspiration from somewhere above

And wrote "When you look at me like that

I want to go and kick the cat"

(Honestly I didn't really mean it like that!!)

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