04-02-2015, 11:30 AM
The Pussy and the Cock an Aesop's Fable
(for billy)
A farmyard pussy caught a cock
and though he knew the rules forbade it
thought to make a case (and if he made it)
thought to eat the cock for dinner.
“You strut the yard above the other stock,”
said the pussy, implying dinner in the saying.
“My strut, it gets the hens to laying.
The farmer’s breakfast? My hens laid it!”
“You crow before the day’s begun,
and night’s for sleeping, we can’t sleep them!”
“I crow to greet the morning sun
So man’s commitments – he can keep them.”
As the cocky cock declared himself the winner
The cat hunched low, then pounced and ate it.
Strut or talk or early morning clock
nothing stops a pussy eating cock.
(for billy)
A farmyard pussy caught a cock
and though he knew the rules forbade it
thought to make a case (and if he made it)
thought to eat the cock for dinner.
“You strut the yard above the other stock,”
said the pussy, implying dinner in the saying.
“My strut, it gets the hens to laying.
The farmer’s breakfast? My hens laid it!”
“You crow before the day’s begun,
and night’s for sleeping, we can’t sleep them!”
“I crow to greet the morning sun
So man’s commitments – he can keep them.”
As the cocky cock declared himself the winner
The cat hunched low, then pounced and ate it.
Strut or talk or early morning clock
nothing stops a pussy eating cock.