So, I'm skipping around a little in my blue notebook. One was (surprisingly) very TMI, called TMJ, and I think, if I post that one, it'll be at a later time. I had another small poem fragment, but I wanted to post something a little more substantial for the time being. And then I have one poem I've been workshopping in my creative writing class, but I'm still, ya know, workshopping it. So it'll be a hot minute before it gets here and, honestly, I might submit it for publication. I don't know. It may be too misguided.

Anyhow, yeah, I've been talking about cats a lot, but this poem just came out. It was one of those things. It was/is probably a prayer and evolved into a few neat lines of poetry.

This was mildly inspired by the fact that my parents decided to get my cat declawed because she was scratching up the door frames. I was heart broken and so against it. I even threatened to move out and take her with me, versus them declawing her, but since I'm still in school and don't have a lot of seed money, that wasn't going to happen. I still can't really face my cat without that awful knowledge that I couldn't stop them from taking that small part of her away. It's supposed to be a very traumatic procedure, especially so late in life. Darn it all to heck.

I hope you like it.

Cats in the House of God

_{This is Louis the Cathedral Cat. You can learn all about him (and more like him) here. Yeah, it's a small image, but listen, I'm tired.}

if we misbehave,
tearing up the door frames to sharpen our claws,
spray us with a water bottle or something,
so we'll learn and
we can be comfortable in Your house,
content to occupying corners and
listening to You speak.

~

I hope you guys enjoyed it! It's kind of a religio-politikal thing, but you can call it whatever. It was a bit of a revelation, but I'm not sure I've payed it any attention. Like, yeah, God's been spraying me with a water bottle, but how long will He keep going on before He just decides to declaw me? Is Hell the procedure, or is it a myth? Maybe the procedure is just the cancer and death we all rail against. I really don't know, but I'd love to learn.

Goodnight everyone, and God bless! <3