Sunday, June 19, 2016

Startled into Life Like Fire by Charles Bukowski

in grievous deity my cat
walks around

he walks 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 could
begin

he leaps up on the couch
and walks through
porticoes of my
admiration.

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