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Mon 22 Mar, 2004 12:05 am
I'm looking for a poem i read some time ago.
The title is something like "on an old cat in the sun" or "on an eighteen year old cat in the sun" and the first line is "i want him to have one last lazy summer" or something similar. The poem discusses how the owner of the cat wants him to live till the end of summer before they put him down because he wouldn't suvive the winter.
Curse the spotty memory! Can anyone help me?
Do post it, if you find it.
hahaha! i found it!
A 14-YEAR OLD CONVALESCENT CAT IN THE WINTER
Gavin Ewart
I want him to have another living summer,
to lie in the sun and enjoy the douceur de vivre -
because the sun, like golden rum in a rummer,
is what makes an idle cat un tout petit peu ivre -
I want him to lie stretched out, contented,
revelling in the heat, his fur all dry and warm,
an Old Age Pensioner, retired, resented
by no one, and happinesses in a beelike swarm
to settle on him - postponed for another season
that last fated hateful journey to the vet
from which there is no return (and age the reason),
which must soon come - as I cannot forget.
Thanks, bluhipo. I just reposted it into Pets at
this link.
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