Information Woman!: This is My Chair by Francesco Marciuliano

Monday, April 13, 2020

This is My Chair by Francesco Marciuliano

Poems 19 and 20 (Pandemic Day 34)

This is My Chair

This is my chair

This is my couch

That is my bed

That is my bench

There is my chaise

There is my settee

Those are my footstools

Those are my rugs

Everywhere is my place to sleep

Perhaps you should just get a hotel room.

Francesco Marciuliano, I Could Pee on This: and other poems of cats, Chronicle Books, 2012.

I just wasn't sure which poem to pick from this cute little volume; each one was funnier than the last. Then Rod came upstairs planning to go to bed, only to see the bedspread covered with my books and papers and Kit Kat well established on his side of the bed. There are people like us that allow such things to happen and then there are people who don't have pets...I suppose you have your reasons, and they are probably good reasons, but still; look what you're missing!

I really can't stop at one poem, just like I couldn't stop at one cat. As I was paging through the book for another poem, I found some cat hair between the pages. Have the cats been reading this on their own?? This next poem strongly hints at the possibility.