The Smarter Cat - Postmodern Theology Most Scatalogical Without Apology To Christopher Smart Poem by Warren Falcon

The Smarter Cat - Postmodern Theology Most
Scatalogical Without Apology To Christopher Smart

For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry.
For he is the servant of the Living God...
For by stroking of him I have found out electricity.
- from 'Jubilate Agno' by Christopher Smart


Forget Jeoffry.

Consider the Cat Oliver
asleep upon the journal's
leather, old ink and think
enclosed, weighted as
only Cat-weight weighs in
upon all things, Pink-Eared.
A Poem of Itself possessed,
Cat-self, He's but a winking
Dream only Paws may seize.

He speaks:

Please the dust in
corners, rather I'd nod.
Let others consider God.
I shall consider Me,
the Better of the two,
Furred Things being Best.

I shall not raise a Tail to human
deity, that brute untamed,
clumsy, no sense of balance.

Rather, the human is My mastery.
I have trained some few of them
well which pleases Me and greatly
them though I shall appear indifferent
as I ever Am.

Clever Me.

I will the sun up and down,
the daily annunciation of tin
cans, I bid humming humans
whose voices are the softer
for My Presence,

O bringest thou Me now the tuna.

NOW.


And their laughter I patiently
endure. They think Me silly
but I am Trickster, too, an Arse
on purpose, I take their picture
with Mine.

Eternally.

But not now.

I repose.

Every moment is a Pose,
each still Gesture appears
insignificant, a Supposition.


Consider.


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