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                                     Lady Macbeth’s Cat

                    Letting “I dare not” wait upon “I would”

                                      -Macbeth I.vii.48

Lady Macbeth wrangled with Macbeth during dinner
At cross purposes outside the banqueting hall
A privy conference as to who was the worse sinner
She thought him weak; he, that she was full of gall

She wanted one thing, and he another
He yelled that she was unreasonable and demanding
She screamed that he never liked her mother
And on and on, outside on the landing

The argument was about, as it came to pass,
What dress she should wear to the king’s funeral mass

Afterword:

Oh, and that’s all to the story, no more than that;
She had little to say about the cat