"Assisted Living"

I'm doing a Facebook poetry challenge with my friend David Robbins from September 15th to October 15th, 2014.  I'm going to post my poems here as well.  Our goal is to write and post a poem a day.  Here's my first one!

Assisted Living

My cat

turned into a senior citizen

almost overnight.

She doesn’t have a walker

or carry a cane,

but we take her upstairs to her litter box

so she doesn’t pee

on the bathroom floor,

below.

I don’t mind

putting the water bowl

where she can reach it.

Or feeding her wet food

several times a day,

never too much at once.

She doesn’t play Bingo

or watch TV.

Instead she naps all day,

as if waiting for her

misspent youth to come back.

She still purrs.

We give her vitamins,

it seems to help.

Almost overnight,

our house has become

a Rest Home for Wayward Cats.