On Being a Poet’s Cat
December 14th, 2008 at 5:38 pm (Humourous)
This little ditty was written on the same day as “Walter De La Mere’s Cat”, whilst I was having a long email exchange with an American pen friend about her four Coon Cats. As with “Walter…” this one is unashamedly based on a rip off. In this case the victim is John Masefield’s poem Sea Fever “I must go down to the Sea again”, which I remember reading in English class at school. Our English teacher also taught us a “rip off” version, “I must go back to a vest again” and you’ll recognise that my version has more in common with the rip off than the original, which made me feel better! After all, it’s not quite the same to rip off a rip off.
