Catch the Cat

Here's what happened

In the front of the market

Saturday suburban sprawl

Setting up bowling pins

For kids to knock down

But we've been around

Since the day before yesterday

And the night before that

The girl in the cowboy hat can't sing

But she brings in the bucks and her cat is named Catch

All holy modes await

For the starlet and her fate

She daydreams

She's coming down a maritime aisle in a white long dress

But it's not her wedding day

The guy she loves is far away

Up and at the peak of a sham mountain

While his girl and Catch the cat sleep peacefully

On a bed made of tooth and nail

As the harbor ships set sail for pirate ports

That's what happened in the peace of the evening

Another Saturday, another 'I know you know I know"

That's all good and just

But the guy regards the rust

As time slip slip slipping

Into the future, far from the flaws and pinned-down hair

The fractures and the beauty stare

As Catch the cat says "he'll be back"

Or, more accurately, purrs and falls asleep

In the clutch crossed heart of a sweet sweat dream

February 4, 2009