Never Rescue a Cat From a Tree

Reason on it first.

Never Rescue a Cat From a Tree

 

By Elton Camp

 

The cat has climbed a tree and can’t descend

Unless you help it, the cat has reached its end

That is what the neighbor woman fearfully bade

When she approached you, tearfully seeking aid

 

When such a request as this you come to hear,

Tell the old lady that she has nothing to fear

Soon out of the tree the cat will sure be gone

For when it gets hungry, it’ll come on its own

 

And if doubt or hesitation in her you detect,

Then her mistaken thinking you have to correct

“Just how many cat skeletons did you ever see

That, of a starved cat, are hanging up in a tree?”

 

 

Reviews

[M.A. Van Dyke]

:-) I'm glad I read it through. It's a mite wordy on the first pass, but I really wouldn't change a thing. I like writing that either makes you read it twice or makes you think it through!