Traveling Dream

 I am packing to go to the airport 
but somehow I am never packed.
 
I keep remembering more things 
I keep forgetting.
 

Secretly the clock is bolting 
forward ten minutes at a click 
instead of one.
 Each time 
I look away, it jumps.
 

Now I remember I have to find 
the cats.
 I have four cats 
even when I am asleep.
 
One is on the bed and I slip 

her into the suitcase.
 
One is under the sofa.
 I 
drag him out.
 But the tabby 
in the suitcase has vanished.
 

Now my tickets have run away.
 
Maybe the cat has my tickets.
 
I can only find one cat.
 
My purse has gone into hiding.
 

Now it is time to get packed.
 
I take the suitcase down.
 
There is a cat in it but no clothes.
 
My tickets are floating in the bath 

tub full of water.
 I dry them.
 
One cat is in my purse 
but my wallet has dissolved.
 
The tickets are still dripping.
 

I look at the clock as it leaps 
forward and see I have missed 
my plane.
 My bed is gone now.
 
There is one cat the size of a sofa.

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