She Will Sleep for Food

Once you decide to keep her, there's no turning back.

She Will Sleep for Food

 

By Elton Camp

 

To make her own living she knows how to do,

If others else will supply it, she prefers not to

She may unexpectedly show up at your door

Even though you have never seen her before

 

If you should dare to open it a narrow crack,

She’ll force her way in and won’t come back

Up against you she will coyly start to scrub

And invite you, her smooth, silky hair to rub

 

There is no need to say, “I’ve no need for you.”

Because words like that she knows to be untrue

So you might just as well go ahead and admit

That you already are attracted to her quite a bit

 

Right into your lap she will proceed to jump

And you go along with it like some old chump

That you’re much older and ugly she doesn’t see

You’ve got what she wants and she gets it free

 

And in all honesty, you simply must confess,

That she looks very nice not wearing a dress

Attention that you show, she returns in kind

Her purring into your ear makes you feel fine

 

Now, don’t expect that she’ll do any work at all

For it is you who must be at her beck and call

Even to clean up her own messes is now your job

So be prepared since you’ll have the floor to swab

 

It isn’t very likely that you’ll ever regret the day

You took the cat into your house and let her stay

Even your own spouse agrees it would be too rude

To turn away one who is willing to sleep for food