Snow

We’ve had a classic guest these last few days, 

she’s been expressing her feline-fantastic zest 

for elaborate exaggeration in play, amazing th’ 

staid audience into ardently awaiting her next, 

breath-baited, melodramatic performance; we 

hadn’t had t’ wait too long before she decided 

we were okay, & leapt into bed - purring that it 

was intended t’ make us feel better than ‘old’ 

And it worked without perfidy - there is rarely 

a more cognisant ploy than ‘paying the piper’ 

in th’ same currency: & thus, we’re dedicated 

fans of our boarder Snow; while she is due to 

leave in a day, we’ll cogently retain memories 

of her amazingly adroit capacity to ‘entertain’ 
© 26 September 2018, I. D. Carswell