Poem from the book {The Lion and the Sun} by Artist Troy Richard Thomas

    I play with my girlfriends cat while she's away

    I put on my gloves and rough house with him

He tries to crawl under the easy chair but I drag him back

I catapult him onto the sofa and nearly shave his head off with the ceiling fan

I throw him down the stairway where he lands on the drum set

I put the cat in my gym bag and do the tilt a whirl

The door opens and I rush for a seat in front of the tv

My girlfriend asks me what I've been doing to her cat

She eyes me suspiciously as the cat hides behind her legs

I tell her that I've been watching television the whole time and that I was mightily hurt by her insinuations

I sit like an angel watching young women in leotards squat and thrust, and do pelvic exercises (an 80s exercise show often watched by couch potatoes)

My girlfriend sides with the cat , turns off the tv and tells me to leave. (a very cruel and horrible woman, not much of a host really, who forced me to eat cat hair pizza).

Poem from the book {The Lion and the Sun} by the Artist Troy Richard Thomas