Complacent Cat

[Hawkman]

What the heck... This deserves a wider audience lol.

Complacent cat, you’re ten feet long
Your paws are big as plates
Your odour too is really strong
How came you to this place?

Your purr is deep, it rumbles so,
Your eyes are large and golden;
Those dentures must have length to spare
And don’t, my heart, embolden.

Your whiskers gleam as white as tile
With points as sharp as needles,
If I had those between my toes
I’d use them to lance weevils.

But underneath my bed you lie,
At night when I would sleep,
Awaiting trailing toes to spy
And dangle within reach.

I wonder, will it hurt to die,
As starting with my feet,
You crunch your way through all my bones
Till nemesis I meet.

But still, you’re such a pretty cat
With orange stripes and black:
It's just as well the bathroom’s safe
For now my bowels are slack.

[Silas Thorne]

Hahaha! Great! :)
I love the comic rhymes throughout, well, all apart from 'till nemesis I meet', which meaningwise, fits perfectly, I just think it's a bit downside up wordwise. Perhaps just me.

[IceM]

For a moment I was tripped up on your meter, namely Stanza 3 Line 4, where I assumed the stresses would be on lance and WEE-vils, but after re-reading, I suppose I took a mis-step.

Leave the cat outside. You'll never have mice problems again...

[PrinceMyshkin]

In that situation my own bowels would long since have gone slack! Great fun.

[Varenne Rodin]

Distinctly disturbing. I mean that as a compliment.

[Hawkman]

Silas: fankee, your honour, for gracing our 'umble fread wiv your perusalin'. We, as 'ow it might be, wot scribbles 'ere, is most gratificated by your attention. We feels, 'owever, vat a' occasional digression of syntaxification in wot is, as it were, comic verse, might be, p'r'aps allowable :D

IceM: We fanks 'ee too for wot is, as might be, your attention. We appologises for confusin' ee. ;)

Prince: Grates dominus.

Mistress Rodin: thanks for your disturbed compliment.

Those of you who've been around for a while will doubtless recognise this as a companion piece to Tiger in the Bathroom :D

May you live free, spared the attentions of Tigers, in wellness - H

[firefangled]

A very weird, enjoyable read. Seems like it may have been a dream you had.

[Hawkman]

Hi ff, and thanks for reading. Actually it was inspired by John Masefield's, The Midnight Folk. Kay slept in a bed with a sagging canopy in which, he believed with childish fancy, a tiger lurked. It's just a minor leap from there to kids being afraid of monsters hiding under the bed - lol.

[Jack of Hearts]

Man Who Is A Hawk-

That's one of those times when bowel-slackening is appropriate.







J

[Hawkman]

Thanks Jack, no argument here :D

Live and be well -H

[mazHur]

quite extempore and melodious!

[Hawkman]

Thank you maz. Hope it cheered you up a bit :D

Live long and prosper - H

[DocHeart]

:hurray:

Quite brilliant!

[mazHur]

Thank you maz. Hope it cheered you up a bit :D

Live long and prosper - H

;)...

[Hawkman]

Thanks doc :D

[ucello]

The court jester again! a brilliant one. But who is the king and where? Some great fun in this.

[Hawkman]

Thank you ucello. I am the king of fools, and it is said that it takes a wise man to be one ;)

Live and prosper in perpetuity - H