Two cats conducted a poetry reading competition this morning. It got quite heated, and reached a crescendo of hurled abuse before their barman threw them both out.
Cats are quite Shakespearean in their enjoyment of poetry: get a good box seat (balconies are ideal), heckle, interject, scream occasionally (just for the atmosphere), and zoom about madly afterwards with the excitement of it all.
I went out to watch and listen when this particular reading kicked off, and managed to score them 3 hearty yowls before F came out and shooed me back indoors.
She simply doesn't understand these things. It's like shouting at the ref at football matches - and don't try to tell me humans don't do it. They even shout at the TV; as if that was some kind of two-way broadcast directly back to the poor referee.
phoebe here. i tried writing poetry on tasker's computery thing - i like playing with the mouse - but i can't find many words to rhyme with purr and miaow. however tasker - why does he have a cat's name? - and mummy do say that i am poetry on four legs.
ReplyDeleteAll cats are poetry Phoebe, but your name suggests that you have even more poetry than the average. Poetry doesn't need to rhyme you know - just recite it rather than read it and you are away laughing. xxx Mr T
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ReplyDeleteMy angel Jasper was an excellent pawformance poet - oh my, could he entertain. Thankfully, he also understood the need to keep the audience wanting, all the better to appawshyate when he did make an appawrance. Mostly it was new moon night, but he was also quite adept at keeping us guessing, varying it by a night or two each month. Hugs and whiskeries, YAM-aunty xxx
See? Performance poetry at its finest. I have a post coming up on feline balladry. There is an excellent singer of ballads in our neighbourhood. Fz & Pz Mr T
Deleteyou are so right, Tigger. Hubby screams, curses, yells at the TV , talks to the people like they can hear him.. I have heard a few matches like you describe in the past, but none recently. and the two houses we always always see a cat in the window when walking Beau, are gone. have not seen either one for weeks now and am worried and I don't even know the people that live in those houses. we do see a Sylvester type cat in the street once in a while. Did I tell you Beau loves cats? he lived with 2 cats and a ferret and 6 other dogs for a few months..
ReplyDeleteThylvethster? There's a bit of spitting involved in that name isn't there? Sorry Beau, but I, the Tigger, don't like dogs. I got attacked by a nasty one once (very long time ago) - hole in my side, blood, abcess, sore, vet visit.... We saw one while we were out today. I proved I am getting a little braver by only hiding a little bit.... and then watching it go away.
DeleteOscar has growl that's not a growl - a sort of rolling mumble - a bit like a doggie version of purring; all whippets do it evidently. We describe it as him chatting or saying hello. But maybe he's reciting Dylan Thomas...
ReplyDeleteDefinitely Dylan Thomas.
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