Pent In A Penthouse

He tried but for him speech did not come easily, the parrot had a stutter starting with a sputter -- tripped over every third word sounding quite absurd the clipped-wing bird; his flight, as well, a jump and a fell -- a monumental flop, every spring followed by a plop... and Boots, the penthouse cat a bit of a louse absent a mouse terrorizes Carrot~ the penthouse parrot -- poor Boots, dreams of woods feline hunts and captures kept from the wild chooses poor Carrot for his daily, stalking raptures --