The screams of a cat in heat open the night

It feels like nails on a chalk board

We have four cats in the house

The children’s father was going to “make them go away”

We aren’t exactly sure what that went

But the children have been through enough

We can’t let them outside because they aren’t fixed

And they might kill our birds

Today they knocked our incubator off of the shelf on the wall

It’s in pieces

They get on the table

And the cupboard

They are messy little beasts

The dogs bark non-stop when they are outside

If we let them in the living room

They mess on the floor

Even with the doggy door

I just want to sleep without hearing things breaking in the other room

And the cat whore screaming out for something to pleasure it

I want to watch a movie without the barking

I’m very tired; I really don’t sleep well anymore

And there goes the cat whore again

 God, would somebody please phuck that thing and shut it up.

Cats are nasty beasts

But we took them in to keep them from harm

Shouldn’t that account for something