Daniel Trevelyn Joseph - Cats' Instinct

First it was at Sessa house-cum-cafe
On way from Bomdila to Tezpur,
I saw a grey-coloured cat:
Soon it was at my feet,
While I was eating chicken in food,
Then she climbed with both paws
On my black trousers, leaving ash marks.
I gave her to smell one piece
Of bone: she finished it and came back
To tap me for another!

Later the next day, at Bhalukhpong,
We sat in a ramshackle restaurant
To have our lunch, Warshong and I.
Again a similar coloured cat
Came selecting me out of all persons
Eating their lunch, and got her reward.

I am getting converted slowly
To be an animal lover, like my wife
In Mumbai or Sameer in Pune:
But how unreasonable I get in this,
Will be known in course of time!

Daniel Trevelyn Joseph

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