Airy Cats

[RobertFlorey]

I don't know if you folks tolerate this kind of stuff on this
forum, just tell me if you don't!


The following manuscript was found by Professor Bogus Letterfinder
at Aardvark University. He claims that it was glued to the inside of
a matchbook cover, dated 1830, the outside of which read, “Send
in one quarter dollar and learn to become a famous writer, close
the cover before striking.”

The MS is signed E.A.P. and Professor Letterfinder says that it is
an early work of Edgar Allan Poe. With his permission, I re-print
it and title it:

Edgar Allen Poe, Doing 90 RPM In His Grave.

Airy catenary kittens tails were drooping low before the
King of ancient Babylon. The King with royal presence
plied the cat with deadly presents timed to blow the cat to remnants
so the mighty king could rule alone, controlling all he saw.

Stood he up upon his pallet, held by butler and by valet
kingly voice of his arising to the throngs which thought, surmising
to themselves, the Cat’s return would be within before too long.

Just then the cat came bounding to the castle door, and pounding
on it, yelled that he would abdicate his rights forever more,
if it weren’t for King and valet, and pronouncements from that pallet
and the fact that since the ancient days of yore,
all the cats had left alone the lonely Human race of men,
and foreswore to be returning to their hearthside homes again.

“But the world is all the same,” the Cat said
licking at his hair.
“I was here at the beginning,
when you end, I’ll still be there.”

[kozmikdave]

Robert

What's the problem.

Works pretty well for me. You even had me mispronouncing valet (VAL-AY) to rhyme with pallet.

Cheers for the fun read

Dave

[riverwriter]

I compare the experience to discovering that Dickinson's works could be sung to the tune of "The Yellow Rose of Texas".

Fun.