Job Interview with a Cat

Some poems

Tell me, what is it about this position that interests you?
The warmth, perhaps? The security?
Or the power you must feel by rendering me useless?
Feel free to expand if you wish. 

I see you have had experience of similar positions.
Can you talk about a time when you got someone’s tongue?
Or were set amongst the pigeons?
Have you ever found yourself in a bag only then to be let out of it?  

Tell me, how would you feel if you had to walk on hot bricks?
What about a tin roof of similar temperature?
With reference to any of your past lives,
has curiosity ever killed you? 

Finally, where do you see yourself in five years?
In the same position? Or higher up to catch the sunlight?
Or would you like to be where I am now?
Oh, it appears you already are.


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10 thoughts on “Job Interview with a Cat

      1. JANET WALDER's avatar

        And! all booked for Brighton

        Love that sold out

        Still a long wait thoiugh!

        😉

  1. Pamela's avatar

    So good. I read it out loud (of course) and made us here in Perth, Western Australia laugh out loud.
    Like interviewing our cat, Cello.

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