morning birthday treat
seventeen years old today
Miss Betty is old
hiding under eave
old black cat yowls at front door
cold rain sprinkles down
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ink stained hands write words
old sleeping cat falls off trunk
Sundays on the porch
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quick, tentative step
old black cat carefully avoids
long, green snake-like hose
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mother bird curtails
curious babies ventures
in garden near cat

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middle of the night
old sleeping cat rolls off bed
awakens sleepers

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