Pussy

Pussy mewls? It is normal, a cat

Utters mewling sounds seeking a pat …

Sorry—breaking the rules

Shipping drugs? Pussy mules?

Yo! We’d better investigate that!

 

Mike Mesterton-Gibbons is a Professor Emeritus at Florida State University who has returned to live in his native England. His poems have appeared in Current Conservation, the Ekphrastic Review, Light, Lighten Up Online, the New Verse News, Oddball Magazine, Rat’s Ass Review, WestWard Quarterly and other journals. In 2025 he won the Children’s Unpublished category of the Eyelands Book Awards with Flora’s Flock and Other Stories to Read Aloud. The poem was prompted by the Independent story “Prison guards capture drug-mule cat smuggling narcotics into Russian prison.”