(for Maxi, the moggy* at my house)

Dude, forgive me.
I missed your day
four days ago.

It’s not as if
every day isn’t
Cat Day

around here,
but when all cats
across the globe

are celebrated, and
your clueless person
missed it,

well, yipe. To you,
my mama’s moggy
who has made me

your human,
I thank your huge
feline self for

all the love,
all the purrs,
so much you.

Feather on a stick
time? OK, dude,
let’s play!

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*A moggy is a British slang term for a mixed-breed,
non-pedigreed house cat.

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Photo snagged from a Sacramento History Museum video
of printer Channey making this letterpress print on the museum’s
1852 Washington hand press. I love the daily videos like this one,
which can be seen on Facebook, of the History Museum’s printers
using the classic press to commemorate historic events.