You Are Insane

Don't you ever stop

You are my cat but there has to be rules and limits

I keep telling myself you really are a good pet

You are nice and sweet and not a terror

When you lay in your little bed cleaning yourself quietly

Then it is at that very moment you cause the biggest trouble of my life

That you seem to go on a rampage and look for destruction

Chasing things that you toss at your paws

You look at the part of the plant that you chewed up graciously

A pen or a q-tip that you have stolen

Very,very strange

How did that get there ?

Then you knock it all over the house pretending it to be a mouse

Pouncing on it

Carrying it in your mouth

Dropping it down and then batting it down

Racing and leaping again

Until this poor little thing is nocked under a door,a burea or bed

Now you look confused

Why I don't know

You have gone under the same bed many times before

You walk away as if you are too lazy

Then minutes later lightning strikes

You remembered how to get there and you run full steam

But first clawing at the calendar on the wall along the way

Jumping from chair to chair

Leaping in mid air

Rolling on your back in a wet towel from the shower

Scratching to push a small waste basket barel over

Sniffing at your cat food as if it was poison and I am trying to kill you

Now exhausted and out of energy you come to me

Clawing one last time at my feet for kicks

Then you climb on my lap to be petted

I rub you sofly a few times and then you purr

Out of the blue you bite

Down you go

You are lucky they don't have an institution for cats

I would lock you up and visit you on weekends

When you are heavily sedated

Then would be so kind and cuddly and nice

I would pat you until you fall asleep

See you purr with eyes half shut

Roll on your back and let me touch your belly

Now I know you are completely out of it

In dream land dancing inbetween the tullips and the daisies

Crouching down in some field letting a mouse climb piggy back

So you can stagger around and smile and meow

Like the smallest four legged clown