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
- Raw Silk by Vinita Agrawal
- Алишер Навои – Моя безумная душа в обломках
- Владимир Гиляровский – Чем дальше в море
- Spenserian Stanza. Written At The Close Of Canto II, Book V, Of “The Faerie Queene” poem – John Keats poems
- By the Dusk – Ao Entardecer by Soaroir de Campos
- The Oak Of Guernica Supposed Address To The Same by William Wordsworth
- Ode–Shell The Old City! Shell! by William Gilmore Simms
- Олег Григорьев – Мазохисту на лавке
- Николай Заболоцкий – Ночь в лесу
- The Torments Of Love by Sappho
- Владимир Высоцкий – Оловянные солдатики
- At Night poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Fancy Feäir At Maïden Newton by William Barnes
- Ольга Берггольц – Романс стойкого оловянного солдатика
- Tip-Toe-ing by Mahak Raithatha S
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Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
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