Dying Tomcats

Mary Karr's poem "For a Dying Tomcat Who's Relinquished His Former Hissing and Predatory Nature".  Click through to read the whole thing:  it's well worth your time.

[...] Thanks
for that. I’m not one to whom offerings
often get made. You let me feel
how Christ might when I kneel,
weeping in the dark
over the usual maladies: love and its lack.
[...]

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