Go Catch A Mouse: note to the cats on the porch (Poetry)

  

Go Catch A Mouse:
 note to the cats on the porch

All I can say is

"Go catch a mouse"

to the cats peering through the glass door…

The three cats come morning and evening and sit

looking through the glass until

I open the door

and pour food into their bowl 

but tonight I have to say:

"There's more in the morning

but no more tonight…

go catch a mouse.

I managed your food along with mine as good as I could.

It lasted almost until I could buy some more

and if you catch a mouse tonight tomorrow Social Security comes

and I can go to the store

and buy butter and chicken and cat food and bird seed …

I'm out of everything too."

( C)David H. Roche