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Please buy my book.
I seem to have these cats.
I will not spend the royalties
On restaurant meals and hats.

The cats moved in
A few days after me.
And in a while they knew so much
I had to feed all three.

That whole-grain stuff
In bags: I can't afford it.
It's good, okay - I know it's good,
To judge from how they snort it.

Some goat-hoof brand,
A cat nerd on the label,
Is what I haul most often home,
And shove beneath my table

For them to sniff,
While I think back on when
I could not keep a tick alive.
It was much better then.

But buy my book,
If only for their sake.
They chose a poet: do not let
Them starve for their mistake.

Confrontation. #62/63 (Fall 1997), p. 344.

Photographer: Harris Steinman
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These Pages were first created in November 1996, and updated in November 2005.