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Array ( [sid] => 8877 [catid] => 1 [aid] => Mick [title] => The Secret In The Cat [time] => 2002-12-19 08:40:00 [hometext] => This is about my cat that I took apart! lol... Just Kidding. Thanks [bodytext] => I took my cat apart
to see what made him purr
Like an electric clock
or like the snore

Of a warming kettle,
something fizzed & sizzled in him.
Was he a soft car,
the engine bubbling sound?

Was there a wire beneath his fur,
or a humming throttle?
I undid his throat.
Within was no stir.

I opened up his chest
as thought it were a door:
no whisk or rattle there.
I lifted off his skull:

no hiss or mummer.
I halved his little belly
but found no gear,
no cause for static.

So I replaced his lid,
Laced his little gut.
His heart into his vest I slid
and buttoned up his throat.

His tail rose to a rod
and beckoned to the air.
Some voltage made his vibrate
warmer than before.

Whiskers and a tail:
Perhaps they caught
some radar code
emitted as a pip, a dot-and-dash

of woolen sound.
My cat a kind of tuning fork?-
amplifier?-telegraph?-
doing secret signal work?

His eyes elliptic tubes:
there’s a message in his stare.
I stroke him
But cannot find the Dial. [comments] => 3 [counter] => 279 [topic] => 29 [informant] => Panther_1978 [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 6 [ratings] => 2 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => PetPoems )

The Secret In The Cat

Contributed by Panther_1978 on Thursday, 19th December 2002 @ 08:40:00 AM in AEST
Topic: PetPoems

I took my cat apart
to see what made him purr
Like an electric clock
or like the snore

Of a warming kettle,
something fizzed & sizzled in him.
Was he a soft car,
the engine bubbling sound?

Was there a wire beneath his fur,
or a humming throttle?
I undid his throat.
Within was no stir.

I opened up his chest
as thought it were a door:
no whisk or rattle there.
I lifted off his skull:

no hiss or mummer.
I halved his little belly
but found no gear,
no cause for static.

So I replaced his lid,
Laced his little gut.
His heart into his vest I slid
and buttoned up his throat.

His tail rose to a rod
and beckoned to the air.
Some voltage made his vibrate
warmer than before.

Whiskers and a tail:
Perhaps they caught
some radar code
emitted as a pip, a dot-and-dash

of woolen sound.
My cat a kind of tuning fork?-
amplifier?-telegraph?-
doing secret signal work?

His eyes elliptic tubes:
there’s a message in his stare.
I stroke him
But cannot find the Dial.

Copyright Â© Panther_1978 ... [ 2002-12-19 08:40:00]
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Re: The Secret In The Cat (User Rating: 1 )
by OreO on Thursday, 19th December 2002 @ 08:44:32 PM AEST
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Wow lol...im glad this isn't true...thanks for sharing this one Mike it made me smile...Keep em' coming i like reading your poetry...
.:*~*:.OreO.:*~*:.

Re: The Secret In The Cat (User Rating: 1 )
by Panther_1978 on Thursday, 19th December 2002 @ 11:55:04 PM AEST
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I know I shouldn't comment on my own poetry but I just like to say this *now that I think about it* should go under fantisity poetry... I had trouble chosing between pet poems or fantisity poems...

Panther

Re: The Secret In The Cat (User Rating: 1 )
by Jenni_Kalicharan on Saturday, 21st December 2002 @ 05:07:59 PM AEST
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LOLS@Mike.... You like playing with cats, don't you....
Jenni

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