History Cat: Friday Office Poem

History Cat

You are our office cat
Or are we your office

They say cats
Domesticated humans

And are still wild
In claw and paw*

Anthropology feeds you
Maybe Mathematics too

Perhaps Sociology
Fits your fancy

With your feral tail and your
Vicious seductive grin

I am a part-timer
So no healthcare for me

But you, august creature,
We all paid for your

Ear to be bandaged
After you savaged the

Other cat on campus
And you won

Though you love the
History Department

We do not know your history
What you think of us

What kittens what tom cats
What wild nights of song

Only your grudges against
Cups on the edge of tables

Canned tuna since
You prefer the packets

Your antipathy for Bob
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