For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry. <br />For he is the servant of the Living God... <br />For by stroking of him I have found out electricity. <br /> <br />- from 'Jubilate Agno' by Christopher Smart <br /> <br /> <br />Forget Jeoffry. <br /> <br /> <br />Consider the Cat Oliver <br /> <br />asleep upon the journal's <br /> <br />leather, old ink and think <br /> <br />enclosed, weighted as <br /> <br />only Cat-weight weighs in <br /> <br />upon all things, pink-eared. <br /> <br />A Poem of Itself possessed, <br /> <br />Cat-self, He's but a winking <br /> <br />Dream only Paws may seize. <br /> <br /> <br />He speaks: <br /> <br /> <br />Please the dust in corners, <br /> <br />I'd rather nod. <br /> <br />Let others consider god. <br /> <br />I shall consider Me, <br /> <br />the better of the two, <br /> <br />furred things being best. <br /> <br /> <br />I shall not raise a tail to human <br /> <br />deity, that brute untamed, <br /> <br />clumsy, no sense of balance. <br /> <br />Rather, the human being is <br /> <br />My mastery. I have trained <br /> <br />some few of them well which <br /> <br />pleases Me and greatly them <br /> <br />though I shall appear indifferent <br /> <br />as I ever am. <br /> <br /> <br />Clever me. <br /> <br /> <br />I will the sun up and down, <br /> <br />daily annunciation of tin cans, <br /> <br />humming humans whose <br /> <br />voices are the softer for <br /> <br />My Presence, O bringest <br /> <br />thou me now the tuna. <br /> <br /> <br />And their laughter I patiently <br /> <br />endure. They think Me silly <br /> <br />but Trickster is an arse on purpose. <br /> <br />I take their picture with Mine. <br /> <br />Eternally. <br /> <br /> <br />But not now. <br /> <br />I repose. <br /> <br /> <br />Every moment is a pose, <br /> <br />each still gesture appears <br /> <br />insignificant, a supposition. <br /> <br /> <br />Consider.<br /><br />Warren Falcon<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-smarter-cat-postmodern-theology-most-scatalogical-without-apology-to-christopher-smart/
