Our friend Teddy, who is One Spoiled Cat
provided the following photo to inspire me on Poetry Thursday…
Garfield liked the weekend
Where he could sleep all day in bed
No one to please, no one to offend
No one to complain about what he said
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For Garfield weekends were much too short
Especially when you slept half the time
There was hardly time to cavort
To eat lasagna and drink the house wine
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On Monday Garfield didn’t go to work
And he would receive no check
He had a duty he could not shirk
He was on community service for treating Odie like a jerk
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He had hid Odie’s bowl
He had gutted the dog’s toys
Garfield chased him into a manhole
And performed an unauthorized operation removing Odie’s boys.
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This was not the first time Garfield had run afoul of the law
And the Judge threw the book at him hoping the cat would learn a lesson
He got sent to work in a dog shelter’s kitchen like a common scofflaw
It was a place Garfied found distress in
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Garfield chopped the beets and pounded the meat
He made the soup from scratch and a cookie batch
He put the bacon in the fryer and dirty bowls in the air dryer
Great meal chef the dogs said before the left
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Garfield spent the day filled with rage
Praying for the time he could scamper away
Instead of being stuck in this kitchen cage
At least he finally had a reason to hate Mondays
Boy I'll SAY! But Garfield! You were very extremely naughty!
ReplyDeleteODIE, "I want my boys back".
ReplyDeleteCharlee: "We knew there must have been some kind of story behind Garfield's hatred of Mondays! And boy is that a good one!"
ReplyDeleteYour poems are always Excellent
ReplyDeleteHugs Cecilia
You did it again, another great one!
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