Bubba

Here's a link to my YouTube channel where I read my poetry. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEeNcBC_mnM

There's an old gray
cat that wanders the
neighborhood.
Neutered and wild
green eyes.
He's confident, and
thick,
doesn't trust humans
but loves tuna.
I don't blame him.
I have three female
cats that watch him through
the window, wagging their
slim tails.
He couldn't care less.

I call him Bubba.
His head is the size of
a grapefruit.
Half of one ear is gone.
I put food out for him.
He waits until I go inside
to eat it.
He's tough.
Lived a rough life.
I can tell, I've been down
some of the same
back roads as him,
slept in similar
alleys.

But no one has
taken my balls

yet.

Author's Note

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Reviews

[Vol]

Thomas,
Sounds like a Bukowski cat, aloof in his pissed-offedness. Living life with not much more than a tongue bath, scraps of somebody else's food, and accepting the occasional bit of catnip as deserved. I don't know what happened to 20th century American poetry that seems to believe if you aren't a hard-core ruffian with an abusive father and alcoholic mother, if you don't live rough, you can't possibly have something to say. Personally, I enjoy the other muse, the one from sex, drugh, and rock-n-roll.
Vol

[Thomas W Case]

Thank you, my friend. I appreciate it.

[Dylan Macadham]

Great analogy, smartly written, great ending :)

[Thomas W Case]

Thank you.

[John the Baptist]

Yet. That's a somber word in the context of this poem. Old ferals think in terms of survival, as well they should. My little house cat Cosette would probably be terrified of Bubba.

[Thomas W Case]

Lol. Thanks, my friend. I appreciate it.

[red93]

Fabulous Thomas - the arcane World of the Feline - they are a lot wiser than humans in some ways. Really Excellent ✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️

[Thomas W Case]

Thanks, my friend. Appreciate it.

[Soren]

Reminds me of an old cat we had that got in fights with racoons. Tore up, toughed up. Great images in this poem.

[Thomas W Case]

Thanks. I appreciate it.