Tuesday, June 17, 2008

The Cats of Abu-Simbel

The Cats of Abu-Simbel

Four thousand years ago
Egyptian ladies
mummified and deified
their striped orange pussies,
wrapped them in swaddling cloths
for the afterlife. They wanted
to be certain their royal
husbands would have a purring
pussy waiting in the next world.

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