Reading Poetry to the Cat: Episode 1 [video]

An ongoing video feature in which Maribeth Theroux reads an original poem to her engaged cat.

Transcript:

I need a tai chi practice

I need a tai chi practice.
I need a tai chi practice.Globules.

Soon I will be
incapacitated, chair-ridden,
only able to eat
bologna sandwiches and
yellow cheese.

Bologna sandwiches
with yellow
cheese.  Globules.

You know?

I felt the energy accumulating
and getting stuck like globules–
globules–
getting stuck against river rocks–
and the globules–
globules–
sticking to other
globules–
globules.  And soon I will be incapacitated,
chair-ridden–
globules–
only able to eat bologna sandwiches
with yellow chee–

globules.

Bologna sandwiches with yellow
cheese.
Globules.

With yellow cheese.