I am packing to go to the airport
but somehow I am never packed.
I keep remembering more things
I keep forgetting.
Secretly the clock is bolting
forward ten minutes at a click
instead of one. Each time
I look away, it jumps.
Now I remember I have to find
the cats. I have four cats
even when I am asleep.
One is on the bed and I slip
her into the suitcase.
One is under the sofa. I
drag him out. But the tabby
in the suitcase has vanished.
Now my tickets have run away.
Maybe the cat has my tickets.
I can only find one cat.
My purse has gone into hiding.
Now it is time to get packed.
I take the suitcase down.
There is a cat in it but no clothes.
My tickets are floating in the bath
tub full of water. I dry them.
One cat is in my purse
but my wallet has dissolved.
The tickets are still dripping.
I look at the clock as it leaps
forward and see I have missed
my plane. My bed is gone now.
There is one cat the size of a sofa.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Marks Of Disrespect by Graham Rowlands
- The Caged Skylark poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Master Valluvan, the long-misunderstood Tamil Mentor by T. Wignesan
- Омар Хайям – Бытует мнение, что счастье это дар
- Константин Бальмонт – Народные поверья
- Алексей Ржевский – Как я стал знать взор твой
- A Single Man
- Ship Starting, The. by Walt Whitman
- Валерий Брюсов – Газели
- To What Serves Mortal Beauty? poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Repose In God by William Cowper
- What the Rattlesnake Said by Vachel Lindsay
- Sonnet CXVIII by William Shakespeare
- Николай Языков – Песни (Душа героев и певцов)
- I am He that Aches with Love. by Walt Whitman
Some external links:
Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
