Originally published at Uut Poetry on April 2, 2017. Available in Treason Cantos: Poems 2014-2017.
Why am I 31,
Vicki-cat,
and why are you always taking
my seat next to reason?
I thought I’d composed the greatest
one-word poem ever written,
come to find out you say it
when the door is shut. It’s OK, Vicki-cat,
if you don’t want to meet my partner,
even when it’s 2016,
but whatever happened to you as a kitten,
I had nothing to do with it.
I wasn’t there.