Cat! ! Astroph! ! ! E Poem by Dónall Dempsey

The cat
peed in
my Dad's hat.

My Dad wasn't
particularly pleased
with that.

He shouted: 'Oi! No! Oh! '
'Stop! '
'Scat...cat! '

The cat answered
back.

'Me? How? '

'Spittttttt! Hissssssss! '

My Dad said:
'That's that! '

'That cat...
...has got
to go! '

We said: ' Noooooooooooo! '

The cat said:
'Exactly......when ya gotta go ya gotta go! '

My Dad said:

'It's either that cat...or me! '

***

We still have
the cat

now that

Dad's gone.

We still miss
Daddy
...sometimes.

But mostly
we laugh
with the cat!