And now for something completely different. (#14)Cat in O...

And now for something completely different.

(#14)

Cat in Obsolete Shower Bath

In an apartment on the Westside of nobody
a fortuitous excuse for a cat
plunged his thin, naked body
under a showerhead.

How he came to be so dirty, I can't say
except a tom can dirt-accumulate
from prowling all day.
the blankety-blank streets of

Cheviot, Shrewsbury, Lengwood. Shrove Tuesday
was a drag. He dragged his carcass back home,
shrugged off his smoky fur,
twisted a wrist, let water

run and run and run. He's so sorry,...