© 2012 Don Yorty. All rights reserved.
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I used to clean cat vomit up but now
I don’t unless it’s in the path I walk
Otherwise it can stay unlike broken
glass or garbage with day old fish in it.
In less than an hour or less than that
the cat comes back to lick and eat it up.
You have to have the patience to leave it
forgotten as you should an argument
on politics. To change your mind you must
change yourself and some people are afraid
to be someone else. Have you ever met
a racist who’s not stupid? I haven’t.
Sad but true, you can’t make a rock into
a jewel no matter how you want to.
Cachito, drawings by Akram