I am packing to go to the airport
but somehow I am never packed.
I keep remembering more things
I keep forgetting.
Secretly the clock is bolting
forward ten minutes at a click
instead of one. Each time
I look away, it jumps.
Now I remember I have to find
the cats. I have four cats
even when I am asleep.
One is on the bed and I slip
her into the suitcase.
One is under the sofa. I
drag him out. But the tabby
in the suitcase has vanished.
Now my tickets have run away.
Maybe the cat has my tickets.
I can only find one cat.
My purse has gone into hiding.
Now it is time to get packed.
I take the suitcase down.
There is a cat in it but no clothes.
My tickets are floating in the bath
tub full of water. I dry them.
One cat is in my purse
but my wallet has dissolved.
The tickets are still dripping.
I look at the clock as it leaps
forward and see I have missed
my plane. My bed is gone now.
There is one cat the size of a sofa.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Ode of Welcome by Oliver St. John Gogarty
- Sonnet CXXXVII by William Shakespeare
- Федор Тютчев – Как верно здравый смысл народа
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Ночной пилигрим
- In A Letter To C. P. Esq. Ill With The Rheumatism by William Cowper
- Валерий Брюсов – Пленный лев
- Summer – The Second Pastoral; or Alexis poem – Alexander Pope
- Владимир Высоцкий – Вратарь (Льву Яшину)
- Аля Кудряшева – Октябрь был дождем, непонятным месяцем
- Thoughts Religious Content
- Владимир Маяковский – Успокоилась Франция, злобой не пышет… (РОСТА №625)
- My Words Embrace by Mary Etta Metcalf
- Владимир Маяковский – Счастье искусств
- Sonnet 141: In faith, I do not love thee with mine eyes by William Shakespeare
- Felixstowe, or The Last of Her Order poem – John Betjeman poems | Poems and Poetry
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Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
