Dead Slow
A dead cat
there on the road.
A cat well known hereabouts;
tabby and bulgy with one ear floppy.
it used to hunt hedgerow birds
though I never saw it catch one.
It would hiss
when
it
missed.
Someone hereabouts
will miss it also.
Too slow it was,
and sadly now
forever
late.
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