the new cat litter box
sits alone
in the corner by the door
where you last left
for good
with your shoes
and your cat
and some potatoes
I cooked for you
I am too neurotic
you said
thoughtless and rude
the perpetual thinker of the
unimportant
obsessing over how big a one cm
canker sore is and is it maybe cancer instead
and it's true
I worry constantly
for the past ten years
while we played out this game
of cat and mouse
I worried I'd never see you again
never have you here
never feed you
never laugh with you
never hear you tell me
don't worry honey
my little worry wart
you are okay
don't worry so much
I'm here...
but the truth is
you are not
you were more annoyed
than amused
more angered than empathetic
more certain than not
so you took the cat
and my dreams
and you left
at some point
I'll clean out the litter box
and crawl under my bed
to find the little stuffed white
mouse
I bought for Billie Holiday
and I'll put it away
save it somewhere
to find in a year or two
on some quiet gray Sunday
afternoon
and maybe for that moment
forget to worry about anything
at all
Mar 6, 2013
Mar 6, 2013 at 9:06 AM UTC
the new cat litter box
sits alone
in the corner by the door
where you last left
for good
with your shoes
and your cat
and some potatoes
I cooked for you
I am too neurotic
you said
thoughtless and rude
the perpetual thinker of the
unimportant
obsessing over how big a one cm
canker sore is and is it maybe cancer instead
and it's true
I worry constantly
for the past ten years
while we played out this game
of cat and mouse
I worried I'd never see you again
never have you here
never feed you
never laugh with you
never hear you tell me
don't worry honey
my little worry wart
you are okay
don't worry so much
I'm here...
but the truth is
you are not
you were more annoyed
than amused
more angered than empathetic
more certain than not
so you took the cat
and my dreams
and you left
at some point
I'll clean out the litter box
and crawl under my bed
to find the little stuffed white
mouse
I bought for Billie Holiday
and I'll put it away
save it somewhere
to find in a year or two
on some quiet gray Sunday
afternoon
and maybe for that moment
forget to worry about anything
at all