Dead Kittens

(1^st May 2013)

I heard that the three young kittens died

After their mother was torn to shreds

By some stray hounds out in the street.

I wonder if they starved to death

As I lay in my bed

Or were they also done in by the dogs.

I heard it from my child who heard

Of it from the help she said

But only after it came to be

So you can’ t blame me

I was busy being me,

with my family

The cat too was a stray

Had wandered in and came to lay

Round my place, had a litter of three

Sometimes it would wander in to bug me

Now them four are in a garbage heap

Waiting to be taken away

Today is a holiday

2013, the First of May.