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Tuesday, May. 15, 2007 - 5:06 p.m.

People Watchers
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the last two days have been wonderful
warm breezy and lush-
good living everywhere
the lilacs are just coming in
the rain washes everything clean
and Jinky ran away
to enjoy this
phenomina somewhere else
I don't worry
about him anymore
something always
brings him home

This morning at dawn !
phone rings
a ladys cheery voice tells me
a happy little red cat
is hanging around her porch
friendliest cat in the world
her two cats love him
but won't allow him inside the house
blah blah assorted kitty gossip
I go over to fetch him
lts a few blocks way
in the retirement part of town

an older man and woman
are sitting on their porch
stirring their coffee with
the same shared spoon
Jinky is at complete ease
perched on the ladys lap
smelling the morning air
they offer me coffee but i decline
they tell me Jinky wrestles
with their younger cat
as their older cat looks on
the two of them are very athletic
tumbling and scrapping in good nature
thumping on the wood
bumping up against the potted plants
its the most excitement their old cat has had since the young cat moved in a year ago
and the best excercise action the young cat
has ever had in his life
he's a little older than Jinky but about the same
phase of development and that is...
......................the BITE and FIGHTphase

their young cat was neutered
very early in the game
Jinky is still bejewelled
its not about love all the time'
sometimes its about wrestling
today its about wrestling

their old cat, I learned
generally ignores the new cat
they get along but they are not close
the young cat is way too rambunctious
for the old cats liking
but old cat seemed glad to act as
on porch wrestling referee
a good job for a slow old housecat
and the three of them
have been going at it all day
for two days
but the two cats won;t let Jinky inside the house where the food is
so he hasn;t eaten in two days
he only got as far as the doormatt before
the yowling and hissing started

as we were talking
a landscaper truck and trailor
pulled up across the street
ready to start a big lawn job
and four men got out
and started unloading
metal wheelbarrows
and banging shovels and rakes
as the radio played
some faceless rock balad

this greatly excited Jinky
who dived off the ladys lap
and ran right up to the men making the noise
this was a signal
for the other wrestling cat
to approach behind Jinky
and enjoy the wonders of chaos up close
the two young cats tails waving in excitement hiding amongst the iris beds
watching the landscapers unload their stuff
cat friends on a wonderful adventure
excitement enough for all

I know people watch whales be whales
and people watch birds be birds
here are cats...
watching people be people
Jinky the pioneer and his new wrestling friend
they are people watchers
maybe this new thing
will spread across the animal world
and people will start behaving better
knowing that cats are watching them

I said goodbye and thank you
grabbed Jinky and biked him home
he smelled like the spray chemical
that fussy people put on carpets
where cats have peed
I guess thats the doormat
he slept on for the last two nights
I am glad he has found a place
for himself in the general cat communitry
as a porch wrestler
- the Scarlet Avenger-
available to sign autographs
after his nap
in the box of towels


 

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