Illustrator Marshall Arisman teamed up with his wife, author Dee Ito, to ruminate on their lifelong fascination with cats. These beautiful drawings and elegant poems are the inspiring result.
Telling jokes to a cat
Is not too satisfying
No sense of humor
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We once had a cat
Who was so mean we wonder
Why we loved her more
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Talking to some cats
Makes one feel less neurotic
Until the talk back
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A bereft grey mouse
Lies bedraggled at my feet
A gift of friendship
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