Gift for Kitty

Peacefully Purring

Sleep fully Snoring

This dull and dreary morning

Would be the old Witch's grey tabby

Curled up in his half hollowed pumpkin bed

Instead of on his way for shopping in the downtown abbey

Sleeping he was still because all last night he was busy chasing mice and giving them a good fright

So curled up in his half squash jack o lantern and blankie with a checkered pattern

Just felt right

Until the cabin floor started creakin

Then suddenly the old tabby was up and streakin

Quick he scattered across the hardwood floor and out the banging screen door

Heading straight to the market

Before the witch's fresh ingredients she would be seeking

Reluctantly he dashed through the mud on pretty preened paws

Eager to get through the woods and grab his goods

Hoping to avoid the other gossiping tabbies always loittering around the old shabby parts of the abbey

Luckily today he was swift and none of them caught a wiff as he soundlessly slipped into Ye Olde Trinket Shop

Where the keeper was waiting

Sipping on a cola pop

"Tarty again," the old man tskt

The tabby replied with a meow

Then the old man furrowed his brow and disappeared behind a shroud

Returning with another gift besides the one the witch was yearning

Hastily the cat grabbed the witch's bag in his toothy maw as the keeper wrapped something around his neck with a pendant dangling just below his jaw

"Try this from now on"

And in a giant grey poof the kitty was gone

Once again curled up in his bed and the witch's goods sat up on the counter just before dawn