The Empire Of Cat

By Mary Soon Lee

The future is cat,
the past and present are cat,
the empire of cat extends
from Mercury to Pluto.

Hearsay of a time
before the empire of cat
is a barbarity one does not care
to contemplate.

For the empire of cat
is constant, fixed, imperishable.
With perfection achieved,
one does not seek change.

Felis sapiens conjoins
what was once merely human
with what was once lion, lynx,
leopard, ocelot, caracal.

Felis sapiens rules
the empire with velvet paw,
accepting the homage
of robot servants.

Felis sapiens rules
rodents, rabbits, birds,
protecting them from all harm
save, of course, cat.

In the empire of cat,
one hunts when inclined,
one fights when one chooses,
but most of the time one naps.

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