The kitten
The mother cat lifted the kitten loosely
By the scruff to an undefined distance
The world then became upside down
The kitten raised no objections
The cat's maternal face glowed
Like radium in the pool of darkness
The kitten dissolved in mother-softness
The kitten felt suddenly powerless
Resentful of the cat's allaround presence
Why these frequent unsettling changes
The mind-blowing illogic of movement,
Unprovoked,into strange territories
Why this sense-benumbing abruptness
And an arrogant mother-knows-all attitude
The thinking kitten wanted to know
The logical basis of the mother's decisions
The cat did not even acknowledge in reply.
It picked up the baby by its looseness
And ran to an unspecified destination
The kitten closed its eyes and acquiesced
Into the cat's unthinking mother-softness .
