MEANAGERIE A TOI

Ring! Ring!
“Hello...who?”
“F* you!”

“What the . . ?”
“Sorry...that’s Secherazade!”
“Who. . .?”

“My cockatoo!”
“Oh!”
“Fyou!Fyou!F*you!”

“Slurp! Slurp!”
and an even bigger: “. . .slurp!”
“What the. . .?”

“Sorry...that’s Harry!”
“Harry?”
“My Labrador!”

“Down boy...down I say!”
“Purrr...purrr!”
“Are you purring?”

“No...that’s Brat!”
“Brat?”
“My cat!”

“Brat!”
“Your cat!”
“Anyway...how are you?”