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.

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25 Sep This entry was published on September 25, 2013 at 2:59 am. It’s filed under America, Entertainment, Humor, Life, Poems, Poetry, Writing and tagged bologna sandwiches, cat enrichment, cats, cheese, poetry, tai chi, video, women. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post.