A Cat On Your Lap

Resistance is foolish

Deborah Barchi

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Photo by Eric Han on Unsplash

A cat on your lap.
An immoveable object,
foolish to resist.

I was browsing through a catalog this morning and came across a tee shirt with the words “ She believed she could. But her cat was asleep on her lap, so she didn’t.”

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Deborah Barchi

Deborah Barchi has recently retired from her career as a librarian and now has time to read, explore nature, and write poetry and essays.