Carrie
First thing I did this morning was lock the catflap
Trapping two-year-old Marty in the house
Because Carrie my CPN
(Community Psychiatric Nurse)
Was coming for her final visit
To give me my monthly injection of depot
As since she got married last year
She has become pregnant
And is stopping work.
I will soon have a new CPN, Elena.
Marty gave up battering the catflap very quickly
And after eating his breakfast
Headed up to the back bedroom to sleep for the day.
Carrie has known Marty since he was a tiny kitten.
When she came I carried him down to be cherished.
It is always terrible saying goodbye.
Carrie, an Australian, has been coming for three years.
She has an intellect and likes to talk.
Cinema, psychiatry, cats and her Jewish accountant husband,
She peed in my toilet.
I enjoyed her visits.
Someone to hang on to.
And she loved Marty.
Douglas Clark, Bath, England mailto: [log in to unmask]
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