I lost my Gulliver last year. . . and it was very similar as your not a poem, she slipped off into the next world. . .there is not a day that goes by when I do not miss her. . .my sympathies.
My cat was more like a child than a pet. . .she used to sit on my lap when I wrote. . .and, my husband used to say, "Gulliver was around longer than I was!" I had my Gulliver from when I was in college until now (when I am old!) Fifteen years is a lot of life to face. Odd not to face it with my kitty.
I feel for you--
Cheers,
Mill
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Physical perfection is boring. A tarted–up old trollop is always way sexier.
-Steven Wells, Philadelphia Weekly
-----Original Message-----
From: Anny Ballardini <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 6:05 pm
Subject: Re: not a poem --
I lost mine years ago. It was painful enough. I could melt into tears if I
hink about her a little longer.
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 2:51 AM, Renee Ashley <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Ken,
Adele Kenny just lost her Yorkie Yates... If you want to drop her a line,
backchannel me.
Renee
----- Original Message ----- From: "Joseph Duemer" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 6:50 PM
Subject: Re: [POETRYETC] not a poem --
"Animals are another of the numerous subjects about which I cannot be
> critical or 'objective'." --Ken
>
> Yeah, go
es for me too. We have four dogs in the house. Three are buried
> out
> back here by the river where we've lived for going on 20 years.
>
> "...the price for loving them..." Yes.
>
> jd
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 5:37 PM, Kenneth Wolman <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> sharon brogan wrote:
>>
>> Spike
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Okay, Sharon, if you say so, it's not a poem:-).
>>
>> Animals are another of the numerous subjects about which I cannot be
>> critical or "objective." They have been part of my life on and off since
>> 1968, and the best part of my divorce was being able at last to get a
>> cat.
>> My former wife detested small animals.
>>
>> Anyway, I've lost two...the price for loving them...and wrote about the
>> one
>> who was put down in September 2006 "after a long illness." As I recall, I
>> wrote about this: a poet named Adele Kenny in a workshop told us to write
>> something in negatives. I had not written about the cat (her name was
>> Pushkin, oddly enough) in the month since she died, and the poem wrote
>> itself. She asked me to read it and let's just say I didn't exactly sound
>> like Dylan Thomas.
>>
>> CAT ELEGY: YOU ARE NOT HERE
>> (September 9, 2006)
>>
>> While you were dying I stroked your coat.
>> It was not beautiful, it never was,
>> but I stroked your coat because it was yours
>> as years before I healed my de-married self
>> by stroking that same coat,
>> crying then as I cried this morning,
>>
by loving you not because you were
>> my perfect magical healer, but because
>> you loved me and wanted me now not to hold you close
>> as I'd held you close, but to let you go
>> to Outside Over There, but you were not there
>> and now you are here.
>>
>> Adele suggested I could do a lot more with it. I don't want to.
>>
>> Ken
>>
>> --
>> Ken Wolman http://bestiaire.typepad.com
>> http://www.petsit.com/content317832.html
>> -------------------
>> "I have been watching you; you were there, unconcerned perhaps, but with
>> the strange distraught air of someone forever expecting a great
>> misfortune,
>> in sunlight, in a beautiful garden."--Maurice Maeterlinck, "Pelleas et
>> Melisande"
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Joseph Duemer
> Professor of Humanities
> Clarkson University
> Weblog: sharpsand.net
>
>
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