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CAT by EMILY DICKINSON

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First Line: SHE SIGHTS A BIRD -- SHE CHUCKLES
Last Line: AND FLED WITH EVERY ONE
Subject(s): ANIMALS; CATS;
She sights a Bird - she chuckles -
She flattens - then she crawls -
She runs without the look of feet -
Her eyes increase to Balls -


Her Jaws stir - twitching - hungry -
Her Teeth can hardly stand -
She leaps, but Robin leaped the first -
Ah, Pussy, of the Sand,


The Hopes so juicy ripening -
You almost bathed your Tongue -
When Bliss disclosed a hundred Toes -
And fled with every one -




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