Felines are finer
Do your friends want to reform you?
Do they try to mend your ways?
Do they prod you to get moving:
Jog, recycle, fill your days,
Start your own organic garden,
Eat more carrots, eat less fat?
Well, there’s always my solution --
Blow them off, and get a cat.
''Better Company,'' by Felicia Nimue Ackerman