Tuesday, January 11, 2011

startled into life like fire

by charles bukowski.


in grievous deity my cat
walks around
he walks around and around
with
electric tail and
push-button
eyes


he is
alive and
plush and
final as a plum tree


neither of us understands
cathedrals or
the man outside
watering his
lawn


if I were all the man
that he is 
cat --
if there were men
like this
the world could
begin


he leaps up on the couch
and walks through
porticoes of my
admiration.

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