MATILDA MY CAT

MATILDA

MATILDA

MY MALTESE CAT

IS A BRAT

IF A CAT CAN BE A BRAT

SHE IS

WITH HER TAIL HELD IMPERIOUSLY HIGH

LIKE A SCEPTER

SHE WALKS AMONG HUMANS

CONDESCENDLY

A GODDESS

WHO RELUCTANTLY PUTS UP WITH PEOPLE

THEY’RE GOOD FOR DOORMEN

LET ME IN

LET ME OUT

LET ME IN

LET ME OUT

SLEEP LATE

SHE’S ON YOUR CHEST

DEMANDING FOOD

SHE CRAWLS IN YOUR LAP

AS IF IT WERE A PAPAL BLESSING

THEN SPOILS THE MOOD

BE TURNING AROUND

TO SHOW YOU HER DERRIERE

NICE VIEW

SHE WANTS HER TAILBONE SCRATCHED

SHE LAUGHS

A LITTLE CAT LAUGH

WHEN SHE HEARS ME SAY

MATILDA IS MY CAT

SHE THINKS

EVEN IF HE RISES

TO THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF IMPORTANCE

HE WONT OWN ME

I

AM

CAT

HEAR ME ROAR

 

FRANK A VOLLMER



OLIVE THE OCTOPUS

OLIVE

OLIVE THE OCTOPUS

HAD EIGHT ARMS

BUT NO ONE TO HOLD

SHE FELT UNWANTED

SHE TURNED BLUE

CECIL THE CEPHALOPOD

FANCY NAME FOR OCTOPUS

HAD SEVEN ARMS

HE’S LOST ONE IN A FIGHT

FELT HE WAS DISFIGURED

HE TURNED BLUE TOO

ONE DAY WHEN THEY WERE OUT

TAKING THE SEA

THEY SAW EACH OTHER

BOTH THOUGHT

HE/SHE TOO GOOD FOR ME

THEY TURNED AWAY FROM EACH OTHER

BUT LOVE LEAPED THE DISTANCE

THEY FELT ITS MAGNETIC PULL

NOW OLIVE HAS SOMEONE TO HOLD

CECIL FELT COMPLETE

WHEN HE HELD HER IN HIS ARMS

EVEN OCTOPI NEED LOVE AND AFFECTION

LIKE YOU GIVE ME

THANK YOU

FRANK A VOLLMER

OLIVE

OLIVE THE OCTOPUS

HAD EIGHT ARMS

BUT NO ONE TO HOLD

SHE FELT UNWANTED

SHE TURNED BLUE

CECIL THE CEPHALOPOD

FANCY NAME FOR OCTOPUS

HAD SEVEN ARMS

HE’S LOST ONE IN A FIGHT

FELT HE WAS DISFIGURED

HE TURNED BLUE TOO

ONE DAY WHEN THEY WERE OUT

TAKING THE SEA

THEY SAW EACH OTHER

BOTH THOUGHT

HE/SHE TOO GOOD FOR ME

THEY TURNED AWAY FROM EACH OTHER

BUT LOVE LEAPED THE DISTANCE

THEY FELT ITS MAGNETIC PULL

NOW OLIVE HAS SOMEONE TO HOLD

CECIL FELT COMPLETE

WHEN HE HELD HER IN HIS ARMS

EVEN OCTOPI NEED LOVE AND AFFECTION

LIKE YOU GIVE ME

THANK YOU

FRANK A VOLLMER

TYPICAL OF MARY

TYPICAL OF MARY

IT WAS TYPICAL OF MARY

THAT  SHE

NEWLY PREGNANT

SHOULD GO TO ASSIST

HER COUSIN ELIZABETH

HERSELF NEWLY PREGNANT

AT AN ADVANCED AGE

AS THE FETUS JOHN

SENSED

THE FETUS JESUS

IT MOVED IN ADORATION

TO ME

THREE THINGS HAPPENED DURING THIS VISITATION

ELIZABETH DECLARED THAT MARY’S FETUS

WAS GOD INCARNATE

MARY SANG AN EXUBERANT SONG OF PRAISE TO GOD

LASTLY

BUT NOT THE LEAST TO ME

A MEDITATION ON COMMUNION

THAT GOD

HAVING IMPREGNATED US BY RECEPTION

WANTS US TO TAKE HIM WHERE HE IS NEEDED

MARY DID A GOOD THING

MANY WOULD CALL IT A MITZVAH

MARY JUST FELT IT WAS THE RIGHT THING TO DO

WOULD THAT WE SHOULD FEEL IMPELLED

BY THE PRESENCE OF GOD WITHIN US

FRANK A VOLLMER

STUPAS

STUPAS

IN CHRISTIANITY WE HAVE WHITE SEPULCHERS

IN THE EAST WHITE STUPAS

IN BOTH CASES

A PLACE FOR DEATH RUMINANTS

MADE TO LOOK PRETTY

IT WAS A JESUS NAME FOR A HYPOCRITE

ALL OF US TUG ON OUR TOGA

WHILE SAYING NOT ME

WE ARE QUICK TO DETECT THE SPECK

IN OUR NEIGHBOR’S EYE

IGNORING THE BOULDER IN OURS

OUR COMMON FAULT

IS TO FIND FAULT WITH OUR NEIGHBOR

EXCUSING OR DIMINISHING OUR OWN

GOD WHO LOVES ME

WARTS AND ALL

HELP ME REMOVE THE SCALES FROM MY EYES

REPAIR THE DAMAGE DONE TO ME

BY ME

WHILE I HELP

MY DAMAGED BROTHERS AND SISTERS

WHOM NOW I SEE

UN-BLINDED BY PRIDE

FRANK A VOLLMER