1/25/08 The Cat on the Lap

I always wanted a lap cat
that I could pet and stroke and scratch
and it would just sit there contentedly,
like in the movies, I almost said,
but couldn't think of any movies
where that actually happened,
but then I said it anyway.

But the cat on the lap,
like so many other things,
is much better in theory,
the theory being that in fact
I don't have anything to do and no reason
to ever get up at any particular time,
which is almost never true.