#catpoems

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We dedicate this Caturday to Jasper the cat

In this document, multimedia artist Cyrilla Mozenter (b. 1947) describes the vibrant personality of her cat, Jasper, and how he inspired the short poem:

Sometimes I'm blue, but Jasper is always black

Enclosed with the text is a photocopy of a photograph of the jaunty Jasper. These documents are currently on view in our exhibit 'Before Internet Cats' http://s.si.edu/2o7sJWN

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All of my kitty cats will eat me when I die. Gorging on intestine, clawing out my eyes. Ripping through my chest cavity and tearing at my heart, it’s all for you my loves. Kitty cats it’s all for you. Devour my flesh through and through. blood soaked whiskers, Fucking adorable. 🤗 Fur matted with gore it’s all for you my loves who I adore. Devour me Kitty Cats when I go. It’s all for you my dears I only wish I were able to take a photo of us all. 🖤 🐈 #catpoems #aww (at Poetry and Chill OKC) https://www.instagram.com/p/Br8_eLWhEZe/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=931ka45kx3k

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Lucy from Waterstones Crewe with the very literary Boo

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Esmee from Waterstones Cheltenham with Cobweb

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Paul from Waterstones Middlesbrough sent us the lovely Lola

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Akiva, Karou and Satsuki from Kimi at Waterstones Deansgate

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Samuel from Waterstones Lowestoft with Rambo

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Today is the National Poetry Day and @serpentstail gave me this beautiful collection of writing in praise of cats! ⠀ Featuring #catpoems by Charles Baudelaire, Elisabeth Bishop, Stevie Smith, Ezra Pound, W.B.Yeats, Amy Lowell and more. ⠀ My favourite is from ‘Chopin’ by Amy Lowell: ⠀ The cat and I Together in the sultry night Waited. He greatly desired a mouse; I, an idea. Neither ambition was gratified. So we watched In a stiff and painful expectation. Little breezes pattered among the trees, And thin stars ticked at us Faintly, Exhausted pulses Squeezing through mist. Those others, I said! And my mind rang hollow as I tapped it Winky, I said, Do all other cats catch their mice? (at London, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/BogS1WyAv_Q/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1kpic77o2whim