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