On Awakening Late at Night

If cats courted druthers,
there'd be druther less cats.

Rugged individualist
prefers parthenogenesis
if we must carry on.

Else nine lives
is species enough.

Proportion

A child wails
as if a scraped knee,
or toy withheld,
ended love, life, hope,
civilization as we know it.
Growth is learning
to discount such things.

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