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A Poem by
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07/03/95

"Cat Wisdom"
"Memories"
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                 Sorry I am, that I'm
                 taking the line from an
                 erstwhile poet (T.S. Eliot)to use
                 as the subject of my own
                 little prose - but doesn't
                 it feel just like somebody's
                 not looking when you
                 go to the mirror ---

                 and find a stranger
                 watching you there, examining
                 and returning your stare? The same
                 yet 'different' somehow?



                 There is familiarity
                 in the passage of the day,
                 moment by moment;
                 each passing thought

                 prompts recollection
                 and remembrance of
                 similar moments,
                 similar thoughts,
                 each the same yet
                 such as that face in the mirror

                 all so very
                 strange and yet so familiar...

                 when the moment passes, as
                 each second must, we look

                 upon the passage abstractedly and
                 search the life we lead
                 expecting something big,

                 I mean really BIG, to jump out at us,
                 to take those seconds and give them meaning...



                 Slipping along 
                 on little cat's feet, Silently

                 underpinning the
                 shining, the shadowy, garment of life,
                 event after life's event unfolds and we

                 imagine it is
                 too far out of reach, beyond our control.

                 Watching the face
                 in the mirror, we can
                 see the past, perhaps
                 even the future...   but
                 let it go for now -
                 you have better things to do.  
 
                   John B. Moss 
                   03 July 1995

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