C is for Teenage Heartache Poured Out in Poetry

I'm doing the A-to-Z Blog Challenge.

Today is for C, and C is for CAT, which on the surface seems elementary, but this particular post is not going to be good. In fact, it's going to be like a bad emo knock-off of Shel Silverstein.

I'm digging into my high school poetry, verses from the era when I mourned the loss of many kitty cats.

You see, I grew up on an acreage surrounded by cornfields. We needed a large population of cats to keep the mice under control. But for a period of about four years, it seemed sending a cat to my house was akin to sentencing it to death.

Life in the country was tough for my favorite felines, and those who were not hearty enough usually perished within a few years. Some of them died under the oddest of circumstances.

In response to the kitty genocide that seemed to take place at my childhood home, I wrote this really bad dirge to my deceased fuzzy friends during my sophomore year of high school.

I would say, "Enjoy!" but that would be about as morbid as a high school girl writing poems about dead cats.

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Cat Troubles

My name is not important

Neither are my jobs

I used to have a cat

I used to call him Hobbes

One day he grew up

And much to my dismay

He got hit by a car

Later that same day

Tho' I was sad and dreary

Just because of that

I gathered all my money

And I bought another cat

This one was white and beautiful

I kept her in the house

But she became so skinny

She was eaten by a mouse

Then I got a frisky cat

I called her that by name

But one day she jumped in the tub

And swirled right down the drain

The next was fat and lazy

He just laid there on his back

His cholesterol got so bad

That he had a heart attack

Then I had a kitten

I named her Betty Lou

But she got sick and later died

Of complications from the flu

The last cat that I had

I lost him in the fog

So I said to hell with cats

And I got myself a dog.

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