mumbo

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Mumbo is camped out

on Our Black Cat Mat

in Hunter’s Room

— really The Family Room —

She had about a teaspoon

of evaporated milk

but managed to eat a few cat treats

earlier today

so maybe She’s not

on Her Last Legs

why wait for a cat to die
before writing about Her?

She has been gone all morning
frail in the wind
having eaten nothing
but peed on the lawn

shall I write of Her
in The Past Tense?

She was a wonderful kitty
born of enthusiasm
demanding
ferocious pettings

a black-and-white cat
I named Mumbo
Who was ready for anything

Joanna Gilman Hyde